whoa

I had to put my doggo / best friend down the day before. That’s why I opted to not go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Can't we all just have our own opinions without trying to be the most clever at shitting on another person? I'm not on anyone's side in this debate. There just seems to be a lot of wasted energy here. I guess it's just the internet... Be kinder, folks. I hope Topshelf can pull themselves outta this mess.

Kevin confirmed this in the Topshelf Discord for me yesterday 👍

Figured out why he's mad guys

"unless I'm completely clapped in an argument and can't actually support my evil opinion of course."

Dunno who you are and don't care. What you wrote is the same thing as someone standing behind a homeless person warning people not to give them money because they shouldn't have made such bad choices. Yeah you're probably right but you lack all traces of humanity.

If I find out anyone cancels their preorders (this doesn’t even affect items TSR are still waiting on, only in stock things in the awesome warehouse/a few merch preorders that will be delayed) I will fight them. All record preorders are like 8+ months now anyways so you all best sit and wait patiently.

Yes this is the perfect time to do that. Make sure to send a second email tomorrow too when they don't answer today for some unknown reason.

Or just continue to wait?
 
I love supporting this label, so I'm keeping all my current PO's active through Topshelf. Hell, that money is already long gone out of my bank account.
I'm sure they will have a flood of cancellation emails, and that is just added stress to an already shitty situation.
Hoping the best for Kevin, Seth, and the crew, but this will take time and money to get sorted out.
All we can do right now is continue to be patient, help spread the word, and if able, donate to their Kickstarter.

fuck yes

If you didn't go, that's a bad decision.  Last night was awesome. 

Here is an open offer to anybody/first come, first served.  There are no videos from this tour with the rarities.  Everyone is grabbing Death Is a Relief.  I have a proposition for anybody will to take it - if you film the whole set, or SPOILER SPOILER STOP READING IF YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW -> -> Yawning and Take Me With You, I will cover your ticket price or drinks.  I am 100000% serious. 

Yawning and Take Me With You will likely never be played again.  They were rare even when they had less material, and what with the drunk tourists talking over all the quiet stuff, I think it's to be expected that these tunes never come back unless they do a Death Spells anniversary tour in 20 years. 
 
 
It doesn't have to be up front or anything.  Full set gets you ticket price + drinks because that's a haul.  Yawning and Take Me With You gets you your first drink.  Candy through Take Me With You (first 4 songs) gets you ticket price.  That's probably the best deal because your ticket is covered and you can enjoy the back half of the set.  We have enough videos of Arrow lol. 

 

This record is mythical at this point. Thanks for posting the only proof it exists on the internet haha

FUCKING HELL. I think the worst part of this situation is that the liquidation of stock includes every labels/artists/small businesses materials being hosted there here and US, proper pikey cunt shite thing to do to everyone and so selfish.
I would also steer clear of the original company, Awesome Merch, unless that's folded, but that should also fold now because people need to stop using all related companies to these cretins.
@MCDELTATreally REALLY hope it's NOT on its way to the warehouse and it's going to the label first. Fuck, man, the logistics of this one. I'm fed up of enjoying this record on myself. It's lonely.

Topshelf Records needs help! Inventory/Orders Trapped due to Awesome Merch Bankruptcy (brooklynvegan.com)
 
Tl;dr version: Awesome Distro files for bankruptcy and now the landlord/warehouse owner is holding inventory/merch hostage for a number of labels esp. Topshelf. Hence now explains why folks have not received orders in months. 
 

I pledged. This label means a lot to me and I'm sure it means a lot of a bunch of people too.

use mail forwarding services to cut those prices significantly. here's my write-up on it.
 

Why are people still screen recording things? Use a browser extension or command line tool like hlsdl to grab the files from the HLS manifest.

Just got shipping notification for Leitmotif. 

Or I could merge them...
 

 

this post is formatted all crazy like, just FYI
song is rad though, pre-ordered! thanks!

PRE-ORDER: Celebrating 17 years of Minus the Bear's Menos el Oso LP To celebrate the 17th anniversary of Menos el Oso, we’re repressing on two new colorways! This edition is limited to 1500 copies (500 on translucent green - Minus the Bear exclusive, 1k on opaque pink). The album comes in a gatefold jacket with a matte finish and UV gloss. It includes a printed inner sleeve with expanded liner notes about the creation of the record provided by longtime friend of the band Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) and includes quotes and insights from the members themselves. Minus The Bear | Ambient Inks   Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso (10-Year Anniversary Edition) | Suicide Squeeze Records (suicide-squeeze.myshopify.com)  

sad it’s really over now
 
rip

When I ordered this the UK/EU website it said "March 2023", which lets face it, sounds about right.
Huge shame, but I can wait, this album is fucking fantastic.