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I believe it was called cloudy blue. 

I fixed the text they added to the pallet 🤣
"Test Presses from Various Artists such as: A Day To Remember; Thursday, Warzone, Atreyu, Bad Brains, Between The Buried And Me, Bayside, Broadside, Darkest Hour, Comeback Kid, Silverstein, Blood For Blood, Earth Crisis, Strife, Reverend, Horton Heat, Cause For Alarm, Snapcase, Jungle Rot & Others"
"Test Presses from Various Artists such as: Awaken I Am, Carousel Kings, Conveyer, Dead Girls Academy, We Ride, Shattered Sun, Feed Her to the Sharks, Sister Sin, Fall City Fall, Wretched, Pathology, Grave Maker, Thieves and Villains, Islander, Continents, The Royalty, Tear Out the Heart, Colours & others"

I’ve seen enough episodes of Storage Wars to know this is not gonna end well for whoever buys that lot. 

Seeing the office in all these photos and then seeing photos from Chris B9 who currently has to move his office/warehouse shows clearly how much nicer working at Bridge Nine must be. 

Seeing the office in all these photos and then seeing photos from Chris B9 who currently has to move his office/warehouse shows clearly how much nicer working at Bridge Nine must be. 

Trunk is definitely the better of the two deals now. But I bet it doubles where it currently is at. Even at the 18% fee its only $21 per a record if there are truly around 250.
 
If anyone sees where these wind up for sale in a few weeks let me know. 

Hopefully someone took his class so we can market our new Redux

I’m going out there on Monday to check it out
 
will report back

I like that the white edition still says “We have 1500 exclusive copies in a beautiful galaxy variant, never to be printed again.” 😂

Instagram. Dan Answered a bunch of questions that people had.

I updated the front with things people needed to know. $60 in the US. /1,500 Galaxy (Band) /1,000 Half/Half (Hopeless) /300 Signed for Spotify. Spotify links will go to those that followed them and listed to them a lot. Hopeless version will have international shipping and all that magic.

 Neon Sign will be $150 or $200 in a bundle. Not limited, will be capped after first week or so of orders. Sign is 26.75" x 8.85"

Hopeless Subs will get in an hour early. 78 people managed to order from Merchnow sneakily, won't be cancelled.

Ships in January. They wanted to avoid the Holiday logistics nightmare.

It list a Galaxy colorway via the official store. Then it list a split colorway and just list it as exclusive bundles. 
http://smarturl.it/UpsidesSuburbia10

It list a Galaxy colorway via the official store. Then it list a split colorway and just list it as exclusive bundles. 
http://smarturl.it/UpsidesSuburbia10

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

Here's my Revolver copy. 
 
Jealous yet?

Maybe Mondo can dish out the $$$ for Catalyst and Coming Home. 

I contacted them the next day and someone wrote back saying they had my order and just resent the confirmation email. I never got it but figured I was fine if they were able to see my order. 
 
Then randomly I got one last night.  Days later. 

https://bsmrocks.com/collections/pre-order/products/i-am-the-avalanche-dive-lp
 
Mellow Yellow and Black. 

Talking shit is why the internet exists. It's good.
 
    He ran Suburban Home Records, a low-to-mid-tier punk label. Circa 2006 he founded Vinyl Collective, which consisted of:
A Proboards forum, which through an arcane series of events eventually became this website here A vinyl-only distro – pretty novel at the time as the vinyl revival was just starting to take off. At that point the main punk/hardcore options were basically No Idea and Interpunk and some smaller players, and they had their pluses and minuses but mostly they just carried punk records. Virgil carried all that, plus like, rap reissues and other random stuff, and he'd try to get stuff people asked for, so he was like a one-stop shop. and finally, a vinyl-only label – again, very novel at the time. He pressed vinyl for labels that didn't want to deal with it, including a ton of stuff from Ferret & Red Scare, and big bands like Minus the Bear, Norma Jean, & Portugal the Man. People loved this guy, and the stuff he licensed sold big for the most part. He used his newfound clout to continually expand his operation, growing his distro and putting out a ton of music via Suburban Home. A lot of it was like alt-country/raspy-punk-guy-goes-acoustic type stuff, and I can't imagine any of it holds up at all (I do like the LaGrecia album he put out and I wanna say Stereotyperider was good?) Every release came out on multiple colors, there were limited preorder packages with bottle openers and posters and shit, all the collector gimmicks you can imagine. He started a (frankly pretty great) split 7" series called Under the Influence where bands covered artists who influenced them, and somehow roped in like every artist that was big on Punknews in 2008 to contribute. Some of those singles came out on 3 colors. 
 
In retrospect, the first warning sign that he was stretching himself too thin was probably the Cooperative. He hatched this scheme to get 200 people to chip in 60 bucks as an investment, and that money would be used to license, manufacture, and distribute an album that didn't exist on vinyl. Everyone in the Co-op got a copy of the rare color of the record, and the money from selling the remainder of the pressing would go towards the next release. In theory, a never-ending stream of records for 60 bucks! People were gaga over this idea. Shares in the VC Co-Op sold out in minutes. At least one person had a full-blown meltdown on the message board over the fact that they had missed out on buying a share. Personally I had set an alarm but overslept and missed it by minutes. I was so pissed!
 
There was all sorts of stuff around the voting process and making teams and narrowing down the list that I was not there for, but in the end, the first Co-Op release was The Falcon – God Don't Make No Trash, on a 10". As I recall, it did okay. There were some concerned murmurs as Virgil revealed that the record had cost slightly more than anticipated as 10"s cost more to manufacture, but they were reassured that it wouldn't affect the master plan and everything would be fine. The next release was The Jealous Sound – Kill Them with Kindness, on a double LP. A double LP, surprisingly, also cost more than anticipated, and sales were soft. Next up was A Wilhelm Scream – Mute Print, and a sort of complete discography for Gaslight Anthem side project This Charming Man, both relatively straightforward single LP releases. It should be noted that this all took fffooorrreeevvveeerrr. According to Discogs, the first (and only) 4 releases came out in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In between each release, 200 people are milling about the message board waiting impatiently for any kind of update on what should theoretically not take 3 years.
 
While this is happening, Virgil's operation is continuing to expand. He's hiring people and moving into bigger spaces, Suburban Home is putting out tons of music, and at some point there are too many plates spinning and things start taking a turn. He sells "VC for Life" memberships where for $1000 you get everything they release, forever. He takes preorders for Volume 2 of Under The Influence, with promised artists including The Gaslight Anthem and Minus the Bear, which never materializes. For most of VC's run, all his releases were pressed through Pirates Press as they were the only place that was doing all the splatters, hazes & splits that he utilized extensively, but at a certain point he switches to a domestic plant. Later the word from the rumor mill is that he was so in debt with Pirates Press that they wouldn't take new orders from him. Virgil starts blowing out inventory under the guise of clearing out space, doing big bundles of LPs and 7"s for dirt cheap.  Labels who were distro-ing with VC start posting threads on the message boards that they've not been getting paid for months. Some of them get deleted, including a legendary one where Tre from Deathwish tells Virgil to answer his email and give him his money, in so many words. People start asking to sell back their shares in the co-op as it becomes clear that it's a sinking ship.
 
While this is all happening, Virgil announces a mother freakin' craft beer tour.
 
In early 2011, the bottom finally falls out and Virgil shutters Vinyl Collective, leaving tons of labels, bands and customers in the lurch. He liquidates everything through eBay and his own store, and disappears for a good while, although according to Discogs, Suburban Home put out a handful of releases between 2011 and 2015. The most valuable asset at that point was the message board, and he sold it(?!?) to ShopRadioCast and Academy Fight Song Records, another label that flamed out spectacularly pretty soon after. And now here we are! Virgil basically lost everything, but he pops up again every few years with an interview in some Colorado alt-weekly about his new business doing promotion for craft distilleries or whatever. He's an ideas guy!
 
It's wild to think that there are people who are regulars here who have no idea about Virgil or Suburban Home. Personally, it was one of the first online communities I was a part of, and although I don't post as regularly anymore, it is comforting to have at least one familiar place that hasn't been swallowed whole by Facebook or Reddit. Long live VC!
 

 

People will probably be salty until he pays them what he owes them. So it'll probably be forever. 

I celebrate his entire catalog!

10/12 live stream and Record Release Variant. 

Just when I finally almost got my 3000 records entered into Discogs 😂

Why can’t we just get Dream To Make Believe? 

Why can’t we just get Dream To Make Believe? 

Why can’t we just get Dream To Make Believe?