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Thanks for posting about this! Final count was 28,860 downloaded records in under four hours, haha. Unreal. Please read: http://topshelfrecords.tumblr.com/post/42646278848/28-860-downloads-in-under-four-hours

Shirts are in!: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9v9mt72on4ksln2/CfICQ_ZoFj

Shirts are also now in: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kxofg1er9c5gf1u/BPHrE3Mf16

oh hey. Vinyl's in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/agnoh92ac9d93cf/IMG_6754.jpg

better pictures of the inserts / vinyl: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rf9rsr4x15hvrw3/c26YRJdAbh

I made it a point to reach out to you and speak with you prior to taking any action on this split. I wanted to make sure to not step on any toes and to ensure that we (the bands and ourselves) had your blessing to move forward on this project. As no one was contractually bound to anything I didn't have to do this, but I did because I know you and respect you. The response I got from you was one of positivity and well-wishing so I assumed that everything was cool. :/

Thanks for ordering from us, you guys — while this is in no way a typical wait time, I should explain that this is the busiest we've ever been in our nearly seven years of being a label. So I'm really sorry this is taking so long to get out! You'll get a shipping confirmation email with USPS tracking information when we process and ship your order. It'll be emailed to the email you gave us when you ordered (or more likely, just the Paypal email address you used). Thanks for understanding — we'll try and have this out to you as quickly as possible (nearly all of them will be out by tomorrow and Monday. We've packed them all, just haven't processed them all — you saw the pressing info... that's a lot of orders to pack, you guys!!!!).

The COK / FOH split was a pre-order for the re-press. We just got the records in on Wednesday so you're gonna have this shipped to you very soon. Thanks!

Whoa. This rules. Thanks!

tour inside jokes between both bands' 2012 tour together.

Also, wanted to bring up what i've done to fix warped records in the past and now it's what i do every time with perfect results. I tried it (and perfected it) on records I didn't care about destroying first, obviously. But it's pretty simple. I bought two ceramic pizza serving plates / stones (mine are 12" but I guess you could go bigger). I then preheat my oven to 150 degrees (doesn't take long at all — a few minutes, max) and then I sandwich the record between the two smooth sides of the ceramic plates. At first I thought I'd need to take the record out after a few minutes or even less than that, but sometimes I find I have to leave the record in there for 20+ minutes (seriously). I baby sit it and continually check on it. I think the key is that the pizza ceramic stones aren't heavy enough to impose their weight into the grooves at a low-ish oven temp, but ARE heavy enough to influence the warp back to a flat state. Eventually it'll get to a point where you can tell the warp in the record isn't forcing up on the top ceramic plate anymore and that's a good sign that you're almost done. It's more of a feel thing and nowhere near a science, but I've yet to wreck a record doing it and everything I've done with it is playable afterward with no skips whereas before it was junk so, whatever. Food for thought. Here's a google image search for similar versions of what I use for this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=ceramic+pizza+stone&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1884&bih=1126&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=L-oEUf6aB_SQ0QGa54HYDQ

sorry, had to.

SOON!

band rules.

Sorry, you guys. We're bad at planning ahead farther than, like, 4-5 months, haha. We've put a lot of thought into this and weighed our options / pros / cons. Every time we come out with a pretty decisive "no" on doing one of these. You definitely won't see an "annual" subscription from us as we never really know how many records we're going to release in a given year, but perhaps we'll do something like what RFC did with the 7" series. I dunno. I shared an office with Jeff while he did that and that looked like such a goddamn headache, haha. We just wanna put out records and have people pick up the ones they want, ya know? I'm stoked that it's something that even a few people would want though.

Broken World Media is doing this FYI!

this record's great, you guys!

bummmmmp!

Records are in and have started shipping. I've seen people posting pictures online, so they're already starting to get delivered. Be on the lookout — you ought to have it soon!

FYI: http://topshelfrecords.tumblr.com/post/28495163350/hey-dont-take-this-the-wrong-way-but-im-just

Re-presses are in: http://topshelfrecords.tumblr.com/post/28419772593/suis-la-lune-riala-re-press-get-hip

Look what the cat dragged in: http://topshelfrecords.tumblr.com/post/28421500225/duck-little-brother-duck-dont-take-our-filth