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I love how people peg this as a nostalgia buy, but people were shitting their pants over Good Charlotte records and a glow in the dark version of a $1 record thats been available for 30 years. Just sayin

"I hate this band so much I'm going to spend $30 for their album, and then do it again a year later."
What the fuck?

Dex bringin the knowledge, as expected
 
Also, stop bashing each other in general. It's super tiring to come here and every day see people yelling at one another over whatever they feel is important

I actually have now released a record with Soft Speak and with Orchid Tapes and I think it really boils down to what your values are as a label owner. Michael of Soft Speak is a saint, but it can be really tough to sustain that record and his values and Warren's differ only in where their profits are directed, but both want only what is best for the bands that they work with, which I think is what's most important. I personally might not spend $20 on a record, but that is just because I don't really value physical copies of music in that way. Some people will readily spend that kind of money on a record because that's what matters to them. This is all morally subjective and you shouldn't bash label owners for doing what is and is not "DIY" or how much they should charge or theoretically pit them against each other because they are all working towards a common goal. If you don't think the record is worth $20, don't spend $20 on it, but don't state your beliefs as being objective or as being from some higher moral ground.

NEWS: No Idea is gonna distro OR there will be a US press in the fall. Will be one or the other

Not being sarcastic at all. We hugely appreciate anyone who's taken the time to check out the Alex G song, any of our back catalog of releases, or taken the extra step and purchased any vinyl (or tapes) that we've helped to put out. I would never be snarky or sarcastic about something like that, those kinds of gestures are literally the lifeblood of Orchid Tapes that help us to continue what we're doing and putting out more releases.
 
I know a lot of people are used to paying a bit less for LPs from "DIY" labels, but this is how it breaks down for us: Between doing music as Foxes in Fiction, occasionally mastering music and running Orchid Tapes, I have no other forms of income at this point. As of the past three months or so, I usually spend about 10+ hours on day-to-day operations related to the label, and a bit more around time periods where we're shipping large amounts of vinyl. We try to spend a lot of time being very fastidious over the physical packages that we send out to people (hand-written notes, stickers, hand-stamped envelopes and tea bags) because this is the kind of stuff that makes the process special to us, and hopefully to the people that buy things from Orchid Tapes. Because this can be such a time consuming process and because of the time required for my other 'jobs', I don't have any time left over to pursue any sort of employment that would provide a regular stream of income for things like food / rent / future Orchid Tapes releases. We put all our releases for free on Bandcamp because it's something we strongly believe in (with all the donations going back into purchasing download credits) so we make basically $0 on digital sales at this point in time.
 
At this point in time it's just not viable for us to charge any less and still afford to be able to put out physical releases (as well as pay the artists we're releasing music for) and still like, have a place to live and work. Maybe in time when we're a little bit more established and have different avenues figured out for making actual money, we'll be able to charge less. We're not trying to rip anyone off, we're just trying release beautiful things that we can be really proud of and charge what we think is fair to both us as a label, our artists, and the people who are choosing to support us.

Something has to be really good for me to want to pay more than $7 for a 7". I know how expensive 7"s are, but when they cost as much as LPs I gotta draw the line.

I sincerely hope nobody buys this shit.

WHAT IF there are no different variants to collect? Is it still even considered a real band?

Purple with ceiling fan reflection /1

Discordance Axis - Jouhou and Org Sound Vers 92-95 were both in the half off bin
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun for cheap
Shellac - The Rude Gesture a pictorial history 7" in great shape
Bucket Full of Teeth - I-III 7" set all 1st pressings for a decent lot price
 
Don't need to spend more money, but I keep running into nice things.

SRC is reissuing "Frengers" on double vinyl

A "special surprise" for a new Pixies album would be that it is any good.

Yo you just compared the fucking Holocaust to this release. What the fuck is wrong with you?

What a load of horse shit. I have heard so many stupid things since I started following RSD, but this is the worst. "In violation of their RSD pledge?" Are you fucking kidding me? If I know anything about economics (and I don't), major labels and most indie labels participating in RSD are raking in a metric fuck-ton of cash in the weeks leading up to April 19th. Brick-and-mortar shops assume all of the risk for turning any of these records for a profit when they buy them in bulk from pressing plants/labels/distributors, whatever. There are RSD 2012 titles still sitting in their shrink at my local shop that will never be bought because so much stupid shit gets pressed. Nobody fucking asked for four Aerosmith records this year.
 
That being said, Record Store Day is not anything more than a cash grab for everyone involved, so if Jack White, and whoever the representative this year is, wants to assign some phoney sentimentality to what time a store opens he can fuck himself. What a poseur. 
 
I'm shocked that RSD as a whole hasn't come to terms with itself that for the most part, it appeals to kids with Crosleys and flippers, and there are a few cool releases each time around that keep this bullshit going. That Bull Moose video had some very cool stuff in it, but that's from a list of over 700 releases. 
 
/end rant

I've long been a silent admirer of your avatar.

Thank you, Goodwill
 

Man, I have noticed the site has been sluggish lately, I should've known it was you guys using all the bandwidth to discuss an artist in a thread about their work. Knock it off, would ya?

So did you like it?

AF mittens to go with the matching knit cap

There are people who actually like to listen to One Direction