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1 hour ago, Alan P said:

AMAZING! YES! OK, I am totally buying it now to support Randy, Alex, and Steven.

Right? Support those amazing cats and stick it to Schwab lmao.

Hell it's kind of shocking that for all the ridiculous shit Schwab got up for the "celebration" last year he DIDN'T already do a DBL vinyl. 

I love love love that those dudes waited until they literally have the vinyl ready to go and just dropped it for sale. They started this a long time ago.

2 hours ago, Alan P said:

Was a huge fan of this band and album at the time, and the album holds up, but honestly no chance I am buying this considering Andrew Schwab and all his crap in the last decade.

The fun part is that Andrew Schwab has no part in this vinyl issue whatsoever.

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary, and to thank the fans, original members Randy Torres, Alex Albert, and Steven Dail secured the licensing rights to release DBL on vinyl. 

Long story short, I learned awhile back that licensing rights for vinyl don't really require any permission outside of an agreement with the publishing rights holders. It is more complicated than that (and infamously capitol EMI is apparently a nightmare to deal with for any and all T&N-releated reissues). 

Randy, Alex, and Steven don't require Schwab's permission to do this. It is literally a separate project they spearheaded. Hilariously Schwab had no idea until it dropped today. He's telling people on Patreon "we will get to the bottom of this" and "this is bootleg." lmao.

Delicious KARMA imo. Last year's DBL "celebration" amounted to just Andrew, no og members, a ridiculous $250 per ticket covid distanced concert, a "sit down dinner with the band", and ofc the fabulous banning of Steven and Randy from the P86 facebook page for daring to criticize Schwab's shitshow. I'm really happy those three dudes are doing this.