karlsincharge

Hey how about that, TrevorM. Guess what? We just eliminated the hoarders. We made 150 available.

I'll be glad to send screencaptures and sales reports of every item we've sold. Here's our math.

Press 500. Probably end up with 530 or thereabouts.

set aside 30 for band

set aside 30 for customer service and orders that get fucked up in shipments.

hold another 15 for employees.

If you ordered 4-5 like a jackass? You probably had your records refunded and those are then made available. Guess what? If that 75 isn't fully needed? We sell more.

Sorry that bums you out. No hard feelings. We really do stick to pressings, we don't press 900 and say 500. We're just a couple of dopes blasting the new record feeling good about our souls that Propagandhi is not only on Epitaph but a KRM band worldwide.

And i'm feeling good Joe Mauer is hitting and Justin Morneau remembered what year it is.

Oh, and there's a good, plentiful stash of Todd songs.

http://kingsroadmerch.com/propagandhi

Buy it. Understand why the Razor shirt is the best shirt we've ever made. Get a free MP3. Get one of the dumb fitting How To Clean Everything shirts we were unbelievably stoked to make, then Bayside chose to make American garments with the weirdest sleeves in the history of textiles. Perfect sleeveless shirt, though.

HI Travis.

Hey guys-

If you didn't get your download code into your spam folder, then that's a separate issue with our system we need to troubleshoot. We haven't had too many emails, so i know it's not everyone, so I'm sorry if you're one of the unlucky that is delayed on this.

Sorry for any hassle, but we're digging into why this is happening. We handled 80,000 downloads with this same system hosting through Bandcamp, so we'll take care of it.

If you're really riled up, feel free to email me. I'll send you some songs from Frank Turner playing my friend's backyard where he plays a chilling version of Thunder Road and Journey of the Magi that are goddamn album worthy.

Karl

Cody just contacted me. I'm not mad just confused. I usually get the downloads the night before the release date no problem

Yeah, that's why we're confused, too.

is this an exclusive KR color or will Fat have the same deal? or is Fat just going to be doing the black?

This color is exclusive to the band's webstore and their touring, which is mostly in Europe after this comes out.

Fat will have a different offer.

Ordered! but, why is this not through fat?

Fat is doing a pre-order as normal.

Kings Road is doing stores for a lot of artists, not just Epitaph and Anti-'s webstores. Some stuff we do doesn't always pertain to what VC would care about. I.E. We do Drop Dead Clothing's mailorder. I can notify you of that if you want, but I'm guessing you wouldn't be into it.

Hey guys-

If you didn't get your download code into your spam folder, then that's a separate issue with our system we need to troubleshoot. We haven't had too many emails, so i know it's not everyone, so I'm sorry if you're one of the unlucky that is delayed on this.

Sorry for any hassle, but we're digging into why this is happening. We handled 80,000 downloads with this same system hosting through Bandcamp, so we'll take care of it.

If you're really riled up, feel free to email me. I'll send you some songs from Frank Turner playing my friend's backyard where he plays a chilling version of Thunder Road and Journey of the Magi that are goddamn album worthy.

Karl

I'm a huge Strung Out fan going back to 7th grade. So to be able to launch their new webstore and pre-order is an awesome thing and I'm stoked to be able to launch this for the band as well as give them a new home for tour merch and all that.

500 copies on tan & gray vinyl that covers the band's worldwide store and summer tours. CD & all that is also there.

http://kingsroadmerch.com/strung-out/

1,000 on blue. Anti-'s store has a few copies on blue up...for now...or when the Wilco stock sells out quickly.

www.anti.com/store

The vinyl, coozie, lighter & box is just over 2lbs, making it 3lbs shipping. Hence the difference. Sucks, but c'est la vie.

the yellow is out of 250 and can only be gotten from that store in the insane pack .

I'm pretty sure they mean only 250 are available in this bundle The band will also have some stock on tour.

500 yellow is from the band's summer tour & webstore.

500 beer brown from Epitaph's store.

HT will 500 of their own edition later in the year.

Black vinyl

That is the pressing info here, at least. same 1500 color as this addiction, which sold out wicked fast overall, just split between the band, a store, and our webstore.

If you got the black vinyl and want to upgrade, email our customer service peoples. We will swap your order out and you'll be happy as a clam.

Vinyl, coozies, lighters, and the shirt we have approval to sell. But the coozies are really fucking cool if you like your beer in band merchandise.

www.kingsroadmerch.com/epitaph-records front page.

10" are smaller but more expensive that 12"s and we're not doing a big run. Less songs, less vinyl, more expensive for covers and vinyl. Oh well. Moving on.

SRC sold this off of a wrong sales sheet, so someone in Canada didn't correct that. The whole reason this was pushed from 4/12 to 4/26 in the US was because the price was listed wrong by the distributors. So if that showed up for you, then good for you, you got in while the gettin was good and rather than cancel the orders like the US did, someone filled an order off of a wrong price code. It was almost $4.99 to make, let alone the rest of it.

Get up on it.

Every order from the US store gets a free six song download with three album tracks and three live acoustic demos only available from this pre-order...and your dickhead friends that download even BONUS material songs. No scruples, man. No scruples.

http://kingsroadmerch.com/frank-turner/region (new shipping rates in place for the Europeans to consider)

Karl, why is the Frank Turner pre-order up at Shop Radio Cast before it is up at Epitaph?

Because the internet is a wild west and you can only control so much. I don't really get upset about it anymore. I used to. But people know that we'll have cool shit launching...probably Tuesday? And we also aren't perfect, but we're genuinely good people (I think) and we'll lose money to resolve customer situations pretty often.

And, you know, we'll have colored vinyl on the Rock N' Roll EP, the New LP, and maybe even six songs for you to download, including three acoustic versions that aren't on the album? Other places don't have that.

They're better than what you're listening to, Guaranteed. We have 95 of one and 115 of the other.

http://kingsroadmerch.com/anti-records

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I'm still thinking about getting this box set one of these days. Does anyone have any thoughts on the sound quality of the records in this box vs. originals, etc.?

Thanks in advance.

I've only tried playing a couple of them and they sounded the same to me but there was a fairly significant skipping issue with mine, not sure if that's just me though. I boxed it all back up and put it on a shelf where I can see it and pretend they all play perfectly.

Dude, email our customer service. We'll exchange skipping piece of shit records for you. You're the only person who would do that so it makes me WANT to exchange it for you instead of having our staff mumble ill will your way while doing so.

Epitaph Europe has license to all of the BR vinyl in Europe, so we had them manufacture then shipped here to make it kosher on the legal front. Rhino manufactures all of the Atlantic vinyl, INCLUDING the Tom Waits shit we're still sorting out...they're nice people and all, but fuck.

The insert-less record was, as we're told, what Atlantic provided our European office. So nothing had inserts as that's what we were supplied.

Does that help?

you can harass me at [email protected] if you want more info. I don't post here as often as I should, so yeah.

Millencolin 7" is still being launched. That one got done was and sort of missed and stuff.

You have no idea how much data entry needed to be done for this...

http://kingsroadmerch.com/epitaph-records/

and

http://kingsroadmerch.com/epitaph-records/?id=758

There's also a few colors we found clearing our shelves, leftovers from Hot Topic launches, and the like. Have fun.

Frontier and Black Keys...still TBA.

Nothing dramatic. Licenses or distro deals expired. That's pretty much it.

Found some Insted cassettes, too. I know at least 4 people on earth are stoked on that.

If there were any of L7's s/t first record I'd say hell yeah! I'm probably the only here into L7.

CD & Cassette. No vinyl. Couldn't sell it even if we did find it, though.

SNFU, all of their Epit Records on CD/Cassette/Vinyl, Poison Idea same thing, Down By Law same thing. Total Chaos, Humpers, Wayne Kramer, New bomb Turks, RKL...it's a lot of stuff from that era. If you want a specific ask me.

We also found some Millencollin Lozin Must 7"s, some Tiger Army Music From Regions Beyond colored vinyl and some other cool shit marked as "promo" that wasn't promo.

how about you set up a dontation to japan & I will dontate for that frontier lp

Hrm....this is something I will investigate. I like this idea.

This situation has sucked. Trust me. Try selling records for $26.99 and dealing as a wholesale customer and having the label heads say "no one has complained to us, this has been back ordered and incredible for us."

As for other vinyl we control pressing, we'll always swap out if your shit skips or pops. If it sounds like garbage and weird in tone, that's a completely different issue. To date, we've only really been told of "my record skips" and what not. This wasn't your normal "record skips or cracks" issue.

I wish we pressed this and could take the blame, but we didn't. At least we can get it resolved for free thanks to Rhino/WEA taking the high road. More detail to those I'm friends with if you're curious.