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I cancelled my Brooklyn Vegan order for the splatter so there should be some of those when they have stock again. Wanted my $53 for other records lol. Zia looks cool still.

Nice. I’ve just started getting into them after their last album and o want to collect everything, but man are they super prolific. Hard debate.

A little sad but can’t say I didn’t see any of this coming. Deluxe packaging of both EPs is a no brainer. Then going on hiatus also makes sense. Anthony seems like he’s juggling ?3? Other projects right now between LS Dunes, Solo Stuff, and TSOAF. Given that he’s always come back to projects I wouldn’t say they’re done. Also glad they left with basically everything pressed on vinyl.

Well color me confused.... just saw that iam8bit launched pre-orders for Oxenfree. 2xLP on Orange Vinyl. In the description it says "Project 8149 orders will also ship Q1 2023". Now I'm just wondering.... is one different that the other? Or is "Project 8149" something different? Either in audio entirely or packaging? If it's the same thing, then why the heck did they even do the "Project 8149" thing?

The Sound of Animals Fighting are back at it. First music in 15 years and tour next year. At the moment, appears there’s only one variant available with VIP tickets to the tour linked below. Natural w/ Pink Splatter - /1,000 - https://bornlosersrecords.com/products/pre-order-the-sound-of-animals-fighting-apeshit-natural-with-pink-splatter Clear Pink w/ Orange Swirl Vinyl - /750 - https://bornlosersrecords.com/products/copy-of-pre-order-the-sound-of-animals-fighting-apeshit-clear-pink-with-orange-swirl Purple w/White Splatter (VIP Tour Variant) - /750 https://bornlosersrecords.com/products/the-sound-of-animals-fighting-apeshit-tour-vip-package Orange Indie Exclusive - /500 - Link TBD, Support your local record store.

Lol yeah came to edit this it did come with an inner sleeve in the LP panel. Mine doesn’t look scratched, but seems like they shoulda just put it in the inner sleeve in the first place instead of mounting it there. It’s never going back in that hole for anyone.

Got my deluxe in. Packaging is cool, but the 7” placement was highly questionable. It’s attached with one of those tacky adhesives with no sleeve, just a 7” flapping in the breeze behind the pages of the book. I’ll probably put it in a seperate sleeve and then keep it in the middle of the gatefold.

Also can we talk about how shitty their website is? Homepage is just the text, which is silly since all their socials link to that instead of a merch page. Then if you scroll down, the “Merchandise” footer link goes to a dead page. So you can only find what they are selling in the foldout “Merchandise” link.

Hmmm. So the ones that went on sale are the regular version yeah? I might pick up a variant of the re-recorded later depending on how it turns up.

Grabbed this first EP, but can’t do a box set. I’m honestly not that nostalgic for early Drive Thru

Why did it take the random other label helping them on this to respond? Hire a social media intern to do this for like 2 hours a day, geez.

Sigh. I will pick this up, because I've been wanting a SF discography collection for a while, but 2x10" is weird when it happily fit on a single LP. I'm assuming it's just because they found a plant that had a separate queue for 10" records and it was the only way to allow them to churn through so many releases and variants in a year.

Nice, went all in and grabbed 3 things. Grabbed an Orange Whip of the LP, IIOI Hikes Split and the Tree River LP. I've been eyeing that last one for a while because the artwork so strong. When I checked it out dug the tunes as well.

Was just listening to his live today. Interesting vinyl notes. Went into the Joshua Tree vinyl for a bit. Said that he sent back all the vinyl and they’re getting relabeled. Assuming that’s variants 2 and 3. Wonder if he’ll send fixed labels to variant 1 customers as well. someone asked about the boxset and he said he’s not working on it at the moment. Said that because of the Joshua Tree delays + mistakes he doesn’t want to take what is likely $200+ (for 8 albums and B-sides) of fans money and then have them wait for a year or more. So then he wants to just have them in hand and ready to go, but that means the band would have to pay for it since it’s spread across so many labels. Don’t know. It’s gonna be a bit.

Nice. Will have to listen. Sold my copy of Home Alone and regret it.

Was just about to post that in the AGBPOL thread. So funny that they’re shipping from his backyard. Hope they are able to burn through those today and/or have a plan for rain though lol.

It should be fine. APET is what's used in plastic soda bottles. If we've learned anything, that stuff is never breaking down and we're doomed with it on the earth forever. So it sounds more like "black soda bottle sleeve around my record jacket". Think of like, the recent Underoath Deluxe editions.

Sigh. Of all the trends out there, this is the most annoying. Pure Noise and New Found Glory have both been doing this forever. Would I have bought the deluxe edition on launch day? Yes. Will I buy it now? No. I already have the album, probably in a variant I like, and I don't want to bother selling my other one just to not have two copies of every record I buy from the label.

I mean... it's better than them not testing it right? They at least know if theirs major static, skips, etc. I feel like a lot of labels stopped checking, or only listen to 1/10, which is how we got a million records from the ETID Parts Unknown press that have 1-3 skips depending on your luck.

yeah I hope that’s not true. I don’t think we ever got positive confirmation on that. It’d honestly be pretty lame to have all the new represses as 12” and then a 2x10”. I generally sort by size so this would be upsetting either way I put them.

Just got an email with an update on 1st press. They confirmed they were able to intercept it at the port before it got to Awesome, so it’s going to them in Portland. Besides having limited mail order staff, sounds positive.

Got an ad for them on IG a month or so back with the lead single. Listened to and while plenty of other bands sound like them, something still sets them apart. Been waiting for the whole album to drop, but otherwise enjoying every album they've put out thus far.

Well yeah, this is a big factor in releases these days. Not to bring it up again, but I got kicked from the Holy Fawn discord for sharing the pressing info (not images). The band responded to me saying the labels all wanted it that way. My conjecture: All the other dealers (Hard Times, Indies, whatever) have it in their contract to not reveal before hand. 1) To increase FOMO, to increase the chance you'll just buy the first variant that you see or gets dropped on VC. If all the links are right there nice and tidy in front of you, you're willing to take the time to get the prettier/cheaper one. 2) To make it less clear how easy it is to get the record. Here we are, all begging friends with tickets to pick us up a copy, all by guaranteeing that it will sell out at FF. Then when the announce for any others come later, we'll both be happy that there are options and they'll have 1-2 less variants to sell through. 3) Reinforces the "go visit the label IG/FB/Twitter", that's where you get the information, not through some random VC forum post that's better put together than what the Intern did in 2 days.

Real estate. Unless you sell out of every record and every variant, you’re going to have lots of back inventory, which requires space. As mentioned in the Topshelf announce, they had their own place but realtors wanted to gouge them and increase rent 32%. Mike Park does it out of his Moms house and does small presses because he can’t have 5K records floating around at a time. Other labels like Lauren Records do it out of their houses. It’s basically one of two methods. House or gamble on renting a place. The other factor is staffing. You might have days where you get 5 orders, so you’d have to have multi-discipline staff that can then go spend the other 7 hours of their day doing something else label related. Otherwise you’re either paying too much orrr you end up bringing in people just for a new pre-order rush, which leads to people not knowing how to pack records, etc. Then you get complaints and no one buys from you anymore, etc. Hard balance.

Oof. No offense, but No Sleep seems like it's been having a hard time, so this could make it even worse for them.