robx

dude, I listen to some pretty lame music, but I just youtubed this song and it's fucking LAME. This is like jack johnson mixed with incubus. Christ I can't believe I've ever bothered posting on a thread with alien ant farm apologists.

I have a good idea how this would turn out...

http://vinylcollective.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63473&start=0

"vinyl"

I'm bumping this thread just as a reminder to every 20-something that wants to repress some bullshit they liked in middle school. Don't

edit: some people never learn

http://vinylcollective.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63802

whats a xeroxed cover? is that like a limited obi strip package deal on 12 colors? can i number that xerox thing you speak of to make it worth $$?

it really bugs me that in the defense of this whole thing is statements about how much paperwork and stuff was done ahead of time, and how much money was thrown into this "project", and getting lots of money together for this "company".

that alone should tell you something there.

Gone are the days of doing DIY releases for friends just for the hell of it for fun, folding covers in the living room with your friends, etc. And here are the days where to do something you need to form some large company that needs office space, where you can pour all your money into licensing projects, etc. Now you need to outsource your workload, and pay for press kits and have warehouse space, and spend a ton of unnecessary money on color variants and packages.

i seriously wish more people would go that route. handmade kitchy covers with black vinyl always win out rather than some fancy gatefold vinyl with 6 variant colors. a little ingenuity goes a long way and saves everyone in the long run.

There is room for both, but as this guy proved, hand made doesn't always mean good. His version of "handmade" was shitty-ass splatter paint on blank covers. There is something great about getting a high quality product, but there is definitely a line that this guy passed in both his understanding of what high quality is, and his ability to keep the product cost conducive.

Remember though, for every good looking mk ultra record, there were 6 shitty, shitty, shitty, handmade covers that didn't fit in 7" bins and weren't that good to begin with.

kurt vile on this record or no? didn't care for the non-kv lp, but loved the one he was on.

Also, that girl's whole post screams "entitled non-punks". Congrats, you worked hard for your label just like EVERY OTHER LABEL, but guess what, you fucked up, did it wrong, and that doesn't mean anyone will ever, or did ever, care about GATSBY'S AMERICAN DREAM! Seriously, did you even look at the name of the band you were releasing? What did you expect!?

Also huge lol at complaining that blogs weren't reposting a fucking PRESS RELEASE! If you put out something people care about, maybe they'll mention it, but quantity doesn't mean quality.

I'm SO FUCKING HAPPY that labels like this are failing.

note to EVERYONE ON THIS FUCKING BOARD:

-STOP using kickstarter. If you can't afford the record, DON'T PRESS THE GODDAMN RECORD.

-Splatter vinyl/gnarly colors doesn't mean good product

-Licensing records is shooting yourself in the foot unless you are already a real record label. Realize that good labels aren't labels that just license records, and that extra cost up front doesn't mean a better return in the long run, or more appreciation from your peers. Just because you love a record DOESN'T MEAN it needs to be on vinyl.

-Package deals are for fucking SCHMUCKS.

-Stop stop stop assuming people care about non-current records just because you did. Chances are, they weren't pressed on vinyl for a reason. Yeah there was a lull in the mid 90's and early 2000's where certain types of labels weren't pressing records. But the reality is, the kind of bands that sold records in the 90's are still selling records today, and those folks will always buy records. Flash-in-the-pan collectors will die off, and you'll be stuck with a thousand copies of some rinky-dink christians pop punk "gem" that "never got it's proper release back in the day" but was "mega popular, I swear!".

Just put out a good record, do quality packaging, press it on black vinyl or a single "variant", and enjoy the success of selling some records and losing a small amount of money. In the long run, will you be more happy with your short stint as a "record label" if you put out 4 or 5 records with just black vinyl, or one record with a thousand color variants, a kickstarter, package deals, and a bunch of other bullshit that only 100 people care about anyway?

all christian music sucks. There's just something in the holy water that makes bands so bad. Keep in mind, I grew up in the heart of jesus metalcore, and having to go to churches to see bands I liked, so maybe my view is a little tainted.

hey were is your record store?

yo, you guys should figure out a way to sell a subscription series of your releases! like, some sort of shop radio for life thing?

charlotte has lunchbox, chapel hill has cd alley, boone has 641.

yo, this didn't come out on vinyl through Capitol. It wasn't on vinyl till late 2008/early 2009. I might be wrong about this, but when they did that repress in 2009 it was talked about as the "first time on vinyl".

I emailed a few people back, but the only things actually paid for have been updated

coke bust is gone, and I think all of the champion stuff is gone.

coke bust 7" is gone

adding -

Have Heart - Demo 7" (first press) - $18

Integrity / Hatebreed - $20

Verse - Four Songs (first press) - $6

selling silly sized records:

5"s -

Ampere/Welcome the Plague Year (green) - Clean Plate - $25 (last ebay +$40)

Toxic Holocaust - “Reaper’s Grave” (281/500 on red) - Gloom - $25 (last ebay +$40)

Waifle/Anasazi - “This is a Party as Much as it is a Funeral” (peach vinyl) - Pensive - free with purchase

Ampere/Ringers split 6” (red of 563) - No Idea - $5

or

buy em all for $40

and then a few hc records -

coke bust - demo 7" (#62/100) - $3

Champion - come out swinging (orange) - $10

Champion / Betrayed (clear) - $5

The Dedication - "youth murder anthems" (clear) - $3

yo edited for this:

email me. Not a fan of the private message system on proboards-

[email protected]

trade offers welcome.

will spend 20 if you don't think it's worth anything.

After all the complaining on here about flippers for Bleed American, I'm so glad that

a) someone totally proved how easily ppl turn into greedy pigs

someone got totally shut down like what when they did it.

ding!

shut down? hardly.

I bought that record because I liked it. If ebay folks are paying too much for it I'll gladly sell it.

No one on here wanted it for that much, so whatever. No skin off my back.

soft cotton rag + solution that is 1 part alcohol, 2 parts water. We have one of those multi thousand dollar vacuum lp cleaners at my work and while it does a fine job, it's not that much better than the simple, easy sollution.

skate....it

http://cgi.ebay.com/COHEED-AND-CAMBRIA-Keeping-Secrets-2lp-CLEAR-WAX-/260772293758?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&has h=item3cb73d6c7e#ht_500wt_1156

The crazy thing is that this isn't a bad price considering how much it's gone for in the past.

The guy that sold that always has the rarest of the rare shit. He has sold some amazing Cave In, Baroness, Isis LPs as well as tons of other bands I dig. He kinda pisses me off though as he NEVER replies to any of my ebay messages.

I like that "rarest of the rare" to you means records that came out in the last fifteen years on quasi-major label (or even majors in some cases).

I didn't know clarity was worth anything -

will sell for 100 if anyone is spending big bux on it.

did any of you read what this record was when you bought it? Or is this just a case of people buying shit because it said "record store day" somewhere near it?

or you know, want to support a local record store?