raidenradio

It's okay, I had a sneaking suspicion that we were a bunch of useless cunts. Good to know I was right.

You still can, all that's required now is to pledge to donate on Christmas Eve, and if you want to suggest a charity.

Holy shit guys really? An open-ended charity drive for $20 with one month and 40 of you read this thread any just moved on.

Cool man, denial is a powerful thing. Keep telling yourself that you won't donate anything to charity because of my attitude. Whatever you need to do to justify your own inaction.
 
Wanna really show me up? Donate to a charity of your choosing and post a screencap right here, that'll really put me in my place.

Cool man, denial is a powerful thing. Keep telling yourself that you won't donate anything to charity because of my attitude. Whatever you need to do to justify your own inaction.
 
Wanna really show me up? Donate to a charity of your choosing and post a screencap right here, that'll really put me in my place.

Cool man, denial is a powerful thing. Keep telling yourself that you won't donate anything to charity because of my attitude. Whatever you need to do to justify your own inaction.
 
Wanna really show me up? Donate to a charity of your choosing and post a screencap right here, that'll really put me in my place.

Here's the response 12 hours after I posted the thread:
 
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No criticisms, no suggestions, absolutely nothing. You chime in saying Black Friday was a bad time, a bad time for what? To start a month-long discussion? The whole point is to decide on a charity to send money to, as a collective. You're telling me that this is a bad thing?
 
It blows my fucking mind that you would post this and say, "in less than a day??" How long did it take you to type that out? Probably far less effort than to find a decent charity and propose it here.
 
But that's the point, when someone asks you to actually do something you can't be bothered. But as soon as I accused the board of being selfish and apathetic, suddenly you have all the time to bluster back at me.
 
Fucking useless cunts.

Gosh thank you so much for maybe, possibly supporting this. Your mostly inaction really sets you apart from the rest of the board. You should be proud.

It's okay, I had a sneaking suspicion that we were a bunch of useless cunts. Good to know I was right.

You still can, all that's required now is to pledge to donate on Christmas Eve, and if you want to suggest a charity.

Holy shit guys really? An open-ended charity drive for $20 with one month and 40 of you read this thread any just moved on.

Pretty funny of you to call me out for not donating to a thread I never saw (I could count on one hand how many times I've posted on this forum).
 
Also I didn't call anyone in particular a "cunt," if you pay attention to the wording I called us cunts, as in a collective, a collective of useless cunts.
 
But okay, I'll meet your challenge:
 
My Pledge:
I, raidenradio, pledge to donate $20 to VinylCollective's One Record: One Cause.
 
I nominate the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (www.cff.org). The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is the world's leader in seeking a cure to end Cystic Fibrosis and improve the lives of those afflicted with the disease.
 
 
 
There, so I've nominated two charities and am in for $40, I am therefore better than all of you useless cunts. Which one of you will try and stop me?
 

 
The choice is yours.

Cool man, denial is a powerful thing. Keep telling yourself that you won't donate anything to charity because of my attitude. Whatever you need to do to justify your own inaction.
 
Wanna really show me up? Donate to a charity of your choosing and post a screencap right here, that'll really put me in my place.

"Let's have a charity drive!"
"Let's pick a charity!"
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Yeah that's some bad organization on my part.

Wanting to help people? Who cares.
 
Insinuating I don't want to help people? Where's that reply button!?

Except they aren't doing that. They're repressing the same albums in intentionally small numbers to capitalize on a manufactured sense of collectibility. Miss out on the previous 9 presses of ADTR? Get this new one but hurry cause it's limited to 203.
 
I don't know shit about running a label, but I would imagine when deciding how many of something you want to press you shoot for a number that will sell in a reasonable amount of time. So when Relapse does an 8th pressing of Mastodon you do a couple thousand. Whereas if you're Topshelf you're pressing some niche artists so you only do a few hundred and then a few hundred more when you sell out.
 
Victory knows ADTR and BTBAM will sell quickly and they could easily produce 500-1000 of each album and move it. But they want to capitalize on the shittiest aspects of THE HOBBY so they keep churning out these same albums over and over. They're riding the last gravy train they have left because no one gives a fuck about their current roster (other than Counterparts). So rather than focus on being a reputable label putting out good music they want to slowly scrape up what's left of their glory years. Maybe if they put enough limited variants they squeeze a few extra bucks out of the completionists.
 
Shitty to the bitter end Victory.
 
EDIT: ^^^ my possible misinformed opinion

Synopsis:
 
Here's the idea, it's Black Friday and a lot of us are/have been stocking up on new releases and hot deals. What if we made a pledge to not buy one record and instead give that money to charity?
 
How it works
 
From now until Christmas Eve, we each pledge $20 to a charity of the board's choosing. If you wish to participate, post in this thread that you pledge to donate $20 on Christmas Eve.
 
Which charity?
 
We nominate charities for the donations to go to. Whichever one gets the most support in the thread gets the donations we pledged to... pledge.
 
How will we know the money is going to the charity?
 
Most charities accept Paypal, so on December 24th we'll be flooding that charity with our donations and the message that they're from the kind folks at Vinyl Collective. We can then post screenshots of our donations as proof if required.
 
How can I get involved?
 
Make a pledge similar to the one I will post below. If you see a charity and want to vote for it, say so. If you want propose one that hasn't been already, say so in your pledge. Give a brief synopsis of the charity and why we should select it.
 
What if we pledge to one cause but want to support another?
 
Edit your posts and support up to 3 other charities, they will be tabulated into the final selection.
 
 
 
 
My Pledge:
I, raidenradio, pledge to donate $20 to VinylCollective's One Record: One Cause.
 
I nominate Child's Play (www.childsplaycharity.org). Child's play provides games, toys, books, and other resources to children in hospitals and domestic abuse shelters.
 
 

email orders at topshelfrecords dot com with order #'s and we gotchu

Except they aren't doing that. They're repressing the same albums in intentionally small numbers to capitalize on a manufactured sense of collectibility. Miss out on the previous 9 presses of ADTR? Get this new one but hurry cause it's limited to 203.
 
I don't know shit about running a label, but I would imagine when deciding how many of something you want to press you shoot for a number that will sell in a reasonable amount of time. So when Relapse does an 8th pressing of Mastodon you do a couple thousand. Whereas if you're Topshelf you're pressing some niche artists so you only do a few hundred and then a few hundred more when you sell out.
 
Victory knows ADTR and BTBAM will sell quickly and they could easily produce 500-1000 of each album and move it. But they want to capitalize on the shittiest aspects of THE HOBBY so they keep churning out these same albums over and over. They're riding the last gravy train they have left because no one gives a fuck about their current roster (other than Counterparts). So rather than focus on being a reputable label putting out good music they want to slowly scrape up what's left of their glory years. Maybe if they put enough limited variants they squeeze a few extra bucks out of the completionists.
 
Shitty to the bitter end Victory.
 
EDIT: ^^^ my possible misinformed opinion

Shit I forgot my opinions are wrong if they conflict with yours. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

Shit I forgot my opinions are wrong if they conflict with yours. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

Holy shit I was excited to expand comedy collection so I started listening to this stuff on spotify. Jonah Rey might be the worst comedian I've ever heard and I've been on two Royal Caribbean cruises.

Shit I forgot my opinions are wrong if they conflict with yours. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

To be fair, I knew fuck all about records when I made this thread.