sunna

if you live in Charlotte and want to save on shipping, Lunchbox will have plenty of these.

SST still wholesales their CDs based on a 90s sales model. Maybe they will eventually figure it out. But basically every cd is at least $10 wholesale, and the extended CDs (ones that are from 2xLPs or have bonus tracks, etc) are like $11.50 wholesale. And that's direct from them, so if you buy it from a one-stop or other distributor it's even more.

I'm confused by this. What do you feel is wrong with my location? It's in the most vibrant part of town and only 1 mile outside of downtown. Do you live in Concord or something?

I am the buyer/owner/manager/everythinger of Lunchbox Records.

got some stuff from Dirtnap today too! Listening to the Goodnight Loving right now.

do you have au.s. distributor anymore?

oh yeah - major labels are the worst about the poster thing though. I probably got 100 MGMT posters, some window stickers, a foamboard, and some other shit but not one play copy

well here's my info if it does any good: Lunchbox Records 1419-A Central Ave Charlotte, NC 28205 I agree with everything Steve has said. I've had many days like his where people ask me what something sounds like and I tell them I don't know and then they leave. This is the most frustrating when you buy direct from a label and they still don't send you something to play in the store. I could care less if labels ever send me posters, I'd much rather have something to play to recommend people. I also work 7 days a week and have for the last 4. 5 years and really don't have the time to go download everything to play for people. I have a shitty old computer that doesn't handle that well anyway, plus if someone just wants to listen to the album on their own (with headphones) you need a copy that they can listen to. I can't just hand them my work computer. I do write distributors and labels about certain releases for play copies too, but it largely goes ignored. I've written Domino Records a bunch of times over the years to send stuff since I sell a ton of their releases. They don't send anything or send a poster. Meanwhile, the CD Warehouse down the street that doesn't even stock new product gets promos from them and then sells them to me! There's a reason a lot of bands and labels get bigger and part of that is promotion. There's a reason why my store sells a lot of indie rock - because those labels generally send things to play in the store. I mostly wish punk labels would realize the advantages of this though. My store is in a city of 1.5 million people with only one other store that sells punk music and that store is overpriced and pretty much only carries punk cds. I've had hundreds of punk bands play in my store as well and have made it a point to keep stocking lots of punk even when it's not been in my best financial interest. So whatever little support I can get to help sell a labels records is great. It's also weird that labels will willingly send out tons of play copies to blogs and zines but don't care about stores anymore. Especially when that's labels bands play in your store all of the time, which has happened numerous times. When I worked in a giant store years ago it would be 100% unheard of to let a band play in your store when you don't even have a play copy. Anyway, not trying to bitch in here. Thanks to the labels that do send me stuff.

would rather see a Boy's Life repress. Agree with themean 100%.

talked to my Revolver rep yesterday and it's coming out on DFA but no date, so probably not for a few months...

support real records stores for Record Store Day!

since when is Interpunk a distributor? Webstore≠distributor

only good Down By Law record was the first one which was all written by the dudes in Chemical People anyway.

obviously I'm biased here and think Lunchbox is the best, but here's most of the stores in North Carolina that I can recall: North Carolina: Charlotte: Lunchbox Records 1419-A Central Ave. Charlotte, NC 28205 704-331-0788 http://www.lunchboxrecords.com Manifest Discs 6239 South Blvd Asheville: Static Age - more punk and metal stuff Harvest - more indie, psych, world stuff Durham: Bull City Raliegh: Schoolkids Records Chapel Hill: CD Alley Boone: 641 rpm (formerly Green Eggs & Jam) Greensboro: My Favorite Things

just got word from the label that the store covers are limited to 100 copies each and then 1000 of a regular cover.

By whole slew, you mean 4 right? And they were a total pain in the ass to get any quantity of because you had to buy them from one-stops. that was great though and I'm glad they did it, but they didn't do anything the year before for record store day. They don't even send cd play copies to me anymore. But as you point out, they did participate in RSD last year and it did extremely well and created a lot of buzz for their label and releases throughout lots of small stores and towns, so why not offer things like these color represses to the same stores?

I stand corrected. Any store that sells Captain America man-perv suits is A-OK with me.

ha ha idiots. themean is actually a lawyer that helps people against giant companies. anyway, as an independent store owner this shit pisses me off. when is Epitaph going to do an independent store exclusive color? or any color? I stock this shit for years and never get any colors so people shop at some mall punk store instead of a store that actually cares about punk, puts on shows, etc. Hell, I can't even buy Epitaph stuff direct, I have to use a one-stop or their major label owned distributor that won't even give me an account after being around for 4.5 years!

shouldn't part of being an official "discographer" be actually saving the typed files/html for this stuff? wouldn't this be something you could fix in the 20 seconds it takes to ftp the file to the server?

I would've donated $1000 but I"m anti-Czechoslavakians....

weird, the ones I got in my store were pink. band rules though.

just to clear my name - this was shipped a long time ago

http://contagiousgraphics.com/rollLabels/paperrollLabels.html

this is because the people that work in the amazon warehouse have crazy quotas where they have to pack 130 items an hour, so shit just gets thrown in a huge box. read about it here: http://www.technomadia.com/2009/12/inside-amazon-coms-coffeyville-warehouse/ if you want your records packaged nicely, buy them from a real record store or a distro that specializes in records.

cool feature, but does this actually happen ever month? I was only able to find a few.