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I fuck with the whole Thursday catalog so I’d gladly take a listen to new material if they ever got around to it.

It’s 34 minutes total according to Apple Music. Not a lot of room for 14 min tracks but maybe….

They didn’t even have the decency to press the two songs on a 12” and charge $30. Really rude.

that’s the official web store of Universal Music Group.

thanks for your patience with me on this one, y'all. i know there have been some headaches over the last year or so. we've really been going through it. i'm def not trying to make any excuses though and want everyone to be happy with what they ordered. i will say tho, i've had so much support from friends when it gets crazy, but day to day, all customer service, shipping, receiving, inventorying—it's all just me. so it can get kinda backed up sometimes (it is right now). we're bringing on more folks to help soon and gradually rebounding from the whole Awesome Merch fiasco. i can't express how much that knocked us completely on our ass tho. i think we're putting out some of the nicest, high quality, intentionally packaged records of any indie label our size currently despite all that. and i think we're gonna get things more organized and streamlined in the next few months. so, yeah, idk, i am rambling, but i just wanted to say thanks for bearing with us on some super annoying pre-orders. we'll definitely get things humming along again here shortly. 
 
oh! also! anyone getting the "Polaris Blue" variant and finding it doesn't look as intended. we're looking into how this happened as this isn't what we ordered. i was as suprised as any of you. here's some copy pasta i've sent a few people who have emailed to inquire about it:
 
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@topshelfsquadyou added the picture of the new variant but it still isn’t an option in the drop down menu. I need to give you this money.

Got both albums at once. If you only got one of the two items in an order I would send a polite email to topshelf, they have never split my orders before (probably 50 orders deep with them).

You all are reading way too much into this. This guy was just goofing off while asking for just a bit more patience.

Hopefully they open up orders right around when they get these in hand so I can stop reading a bunch of whiners complain about shipping delays. Grow up ya big ole babies!

The product description quotes Jeremy as wanting to have it sound closer to Four, and less “claustrophobic”.  I don’t know if I had any big problems with ISB’s mix, but I also know that Four sounds great.  So I’m interested in hearing the new mix, especially as a side-by-side.

Liv Tyler’s character hand claps on the single, so she is kinda but not really on the album.
 For real though, not a big fan of the cover and would have preferred something era appropriate, like you mentioned.

Everybody knows you can only be in a punk or punk adjacent band if you are barely scraping by on tour and you work in a shitty restaurant at home. You are not allowed to capture the bag and attempt to live a comfortable life.

If you look in the right (wrong?) places turnstile gets roasted for TB and the non traditional hardcore sound and the shows with barricades etc… but yea scowl gets it a lot worse bc they have that cute lady singer so they must be fake, right?

If they had made the cover look era appropriate and not included a band members gf and the manager then I might have cared about the total overall aesthetic.  The front - I think - of that booklet (white with the 4 band members and the band name) would have been better. Just pretend the whole thing is their album, put a hype sticker on it that points out it’s really the movie soundtrack. Anyways rant over, they didn’t do that so I didn’t feel beholden to buy the black variant.

If you look in the right (wrong?) places turnstile gets roasted for TB and the non traditional hardcore sound and the shows with barricades etc… but yea scowl gets it a lot worse bc they have that cute lady singer so they must be fake, right?

I bet their version has his friend’s band doing cover songs.

I bet their version has his friend’s band doing cover songs.

Did I miss something about ETR?

hate that etr is involved - can't wait to buy my last mondo release!

https://www.topshelfrecords.com/shop-updates
 
September 10 is the new date!

I wasnt taking it as bashing, apologies if I came off as defensive, just providing some clarity from the literal person who comes up with 90% of variants for our label and orders them.
The reality is that the amount that splatters, or any version of a splatter, sell higher than a solid/single color is honestly very staggering, especially in the age of social media where 50-75% of people buying vinyl are literally just buying the coolest looking variant to post on social media.
I as well am not a huge fan of splatters on solids, I very rarely do them unless they are part of a half/half or in an aside.bside.
 
Yes, new CIS, album rules. These aren't even the 2 best songs from it, in my opinion.

I cannot tell a lie I wish this was not a silly PN variant release. Still bought a copy to see what’s up.

I’m fine with PN in general and am hoping for a sick CIS Drug Church tour… just an awful lot of spatters and colors for a pretty minimal cover is all.

Album rips and anyone who wants to buy it is able to, whats the problem?

I’m fine with PN in general and am hoping for a sick CIS Drug Church tour… just an awful lot of spatters and colors for a pretty minimal cover is all.