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yeah, I wish I would have ordered yesterday. Said 3.50 shipping to US… now no go. LAME!

I know he is probably eager to get some good news out there on this, and I would imagine that if he's making a public statement after all this that it is probably true, BUT even so at this point he SHOULD be more careful, since his credibility has been completely destroyed. In the event that anything DID happen during shipping, or say the albums arrived and there was some defect with them that the plant didn't catch, he would have to come back and make some other statement about how now something else has gone wrong and blah blah blah. So basically he's dumb - which we all readily know by now, but still - if the records really are on the way, then he should just sit tight and wait till they arrive, and assuming they do he should QC them and prep them for shipment, and ONLY THEN should he announce that they're actually shipping out.

kinda odd but it looks like the standard LP is blue, while the deluxe one is black.

seems like for the moment, not all their shipping options are appearing. I'm only seeing UPS which is much more than MM but as I said you can get the deluxe on the UK store shipped to the US for $42. So same price basically

thats what I'm realizing too. If you buy through the UK store the total w/ shipping is like $42.

am I crazy or is it cheaper to buy from the UK store, even to the US? Seems like their US shipping options suck balls and push the price up to almost $60 for the deluxe

yeah, it's being really lame right now. I think its cause of traffic

mine shipped yesterday.

phenomenal band

Whats the pressing? The bigger the pressing the more you can scale the costs, and get price breaks on all the individual parts, making for a cheaper product. They might even have volume discounts for all the other albums they're pressing this month / year. The other thing here is that while IDIB is not a massive label by any means, they're still an established, functioning label with steady releases and steady cash flow. This other label is new and this is their FIRST release. Basically, a label that has been operating for awhile (and has an established customer base) is going to be able to offer things cheaper than an upstart. That's just economics.

still available for me…

you're sir, are THE man

don't quit your day job

Some bands are not smart with money and get taken advantage of, leaving them in a position where they have to do something like this. If we are talking about PR specifically, I don't think they HAD to do this. I'm pretty sure they could have funded it themselves, as they still have a fairly healthy touring business, and I'm sure they sell SOME records and get some streaming income… but I think doing it this way is easy, less risk, and less up-front expense out of their own pocket.

I think part of what kept copies up at Recordstore was the confusion about what version it was. The title said blue opaque but the description said black vinyl… I think they just copy & pasted the same description on both.