Hobbes

Seriously. Unlistenable.

I've been waiting years to see title fight in an environment where im not  getting kicked in the head by some 18 year old with gauges.

If you are buying records just because they are limited and have a pressing number attached (which used to not matter) you're doing it wrong. 

Ah. You're a troll. My bad. Carry on.

Does your record play any different when the pressing numbers go up? Cry me a river.

Stfu. Gtfo.

Ross has had some serious issues from the beginning that have only been compounded by the recent influx of information that this thread has provided. Here's a list of more-than-questionable business decisions/screw-ups that have occurred:
 
- First release - a picture disc that he tried to justify by saying it was the only way to make a 'gold' record
 + Awful shipping job on these - often resulting in damaged records
- Starting Line - poorly packaged, almost all seam splits.
- RXBandits - No band approval. No remorse. (You will find this to be a recurring theme)
- Early November - Blown up CD artwork. Huge barcode on back because of this. (I know this is technically Patrick's doing, but Ross is the label owner)
 + Hidden /50 variant that he told people not to reveal because the label didn't even know about it.
- Fall of Troy - typo on track listing.
- Cartel - He purposely made this a 'surprise' release as he didn't have the band approval and knew there would be issues. However, ETR sold out before the band could get word out.
- NK - Basement Tapes - Have you seen the 'packaging' for this? He reasoned it was because it was a 'demo' release and purposefully minimal packaging.
- Dream Theater - He claimed it was CD-sourced because no digital files exist anymore. Music on Vinyl used HQ digital files from the label for their release of this.
- Cute Is What We Aim For - Wrong center labels.
- Kevin Devine Live - Misspelling on spine. Pixellated interior images. Wrong center labels. Wrong track lengths.
- Doug 7" - Re-recorded covers of the 'original' songs by he and his friends. Makes it completely ambiguous in all postings. Thanks himself on the back of the record.
- Lightning bolt shirt - Supposed to be bolt from Skeeter's shirt. Looks nothing like it.
 
Extra-curricular activities - 
- Charges >$5 for shipping media mail - and claimed it was because pricing had gone up.
- Sells grab bag - often putting in records that would be cheaper if you bought normally on this site.
- Uses eBay to flip his own releases
- Gives extra variants to his business partner to flip for even more on his own eBay account
- Said business partner (and owner of Paper Books) comes in to lie and cover-up for Ross
- Said business partner (and best friend and 'musician' on Doug 7") tells board member "I will be sure to give you a rag to wipe off my cum after you are under my desk choking on my dick," among other things.
- More lies from ETR
 
It's known I've never been a fan of Ross, but coming in and apologizing just doesn't fly for me (even though he hasn't even done this). He constantly makes excuses, has poor business tactics, is known to lie over and over to cover himself, and has shown almost zero regard for the bands he works with. 

But that's the only reason I keep reading this thread.

This guy is really butthurt. Guess he really wanted one for his wall...

So what you're saying is that a community can be judged by its actions as a whole.
 
So if I were a member of the NintendoAge forum and I thought, 'well he sold them to VC users and then he had to stop making them due to legal issues," that would be correct?

Exactly.  It's not like this forum is a super secret members only place where only the vinyl elite can view and post.  It's a public forum just as much as reddit or NintendoAge.

I don't know what's better, the fact that the pic from the reddit post is in this thread, complaining about posting pics when there are several threads on this forum for that, or complaining about "fake internet points" when you guys have the exact same thing (bottom right ya'll).
 
Everyone here who has a copy does so because someone linked them to the guy doing this on a lesser known forum. Now some people are pissed because someone did the exact same thing but on a much bigger forum.
 
ITT: Lots of hypocricy

what?

Yeah you have to be weird to not like this
Jk everyone has their own opinions blah blah blah but this is great music

records are for playing not displaying

Lololol

Every time I see this thread, and the fact that this record is actually coming out, I just chuckle. 
 
chucklechucklechuckle

I'm driving and texting with 1 hand sorry its to hard for an idiot to read

In before someone says "maybe ETR is a business, and it needs to *gasp* make money in order to survive, can you understand that?" as if no one in the history of the world has ever made money while holding onto their ideals and Ian Mackaye isn't living in a fucking mansion right now

This isn't a cheerleading site, people can express negative opinions. The idea that everyone has to carry water for bullshit releases is plain dumb.

between the butt-rock reissues, a shitty metalcore band, jonny craig, now this? what's going on here?

I just love his singing voice. It never really stood out much to me before, the little he did at least. It's very unique and I swear there's at least one part in each song where it gives me chills.

I've said it before in here but I'll say it again. PBTT didn't interest me very much before this release. I saw them live with La Dispute right when they put out Rooms of the House and Pianos was incredible live. I still didn't love their music but I could appreciate their work and live show. This album is in my top 5 this year for sure. I didn't love it at first but after 4 or 5 full listens, it stuck. Every song flows so well to me and it has the same emotion as their previous albums just with a different approach. The lyrics from the lead singer feel like he understands more about everything he screams about in The Lack Long After and is sort of answering his own questions and processing everything more. If you're on the fence you should really just sit down with the album and the lyrics and give it another shot. It's a grower for sure.

i like this comparison
 
 
oh god, you're one of those people

The cringe-iest commercial I've ever seen.