just a normal guy kevin Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Hotelier Cloud Nothings Braid Wye Oak Bombay Bicycle Club Joyce Manor Weatherbox more Bands that sound proficient at their chosen genre of music are boring. Snooze McGooze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeine Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Bands that sound proficient at their chosen genre of music are boring. Snooze McGooze. Hey you, yeah you. Did the new 'more' album make your list too... Post yours: http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/104525-best-of-2014-so-far/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlippingOut Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Hope that the 2 other variant colors are different than previous pressings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeine Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Hope that the 2 other variant colors are different than previous pressings. I'm thinking the other 2 will be red, and blue, to match the artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_James_Champ Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Aaaaaand delayed pre-order. https://twitter.com/mewithoutYou/status/511646378968506368 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royce Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Aaaaaand delayed pre-order. https://twitter.com/mewithoutYou/status/511646378968506368 I blame this on hotel books. DAMMIT HOTEL BOOKS. daegor, RadDonut, David The Gnome and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlippingOut Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 bummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_James_Champ Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 And a little more info from their Facebook. "TL;DR We had to postpone pre-ordering of the Catch for us the Foxes Vinyl Re-Issue due to Universal Music Group not being able to communicate a timeframe. Ugh, So here is the deal… Last week we had announced that we would finally have a new vinyl release of Catch for us the Foxes ready for advance order at Midnight EST on Tuesday 9/16. That order would come with a promise of a shipping date of Winter 2014, giving us to end of the year to get it in your hands. Now it appears that this could be an impossibility. Allow us to explain. Vinyl used to be easy enough to license for our band. Gilead Media and Burnt Toast Vinyl both acquired licenses from Tooth & Nail pretty easily. Once they got permission from the label, they paid them a licensing fee, put up their own money for manufacturing and within a couple months “Presto!” they had the album on available vinyl. But Tooth & Nail no longer owns the masters to our records. For whatever reason they were transferred to Universal Music Group. Once UMG had these masters in their possession they squelched all licenses. Gilead and Burnt Toast were no longer allowed to press vinyl of our records. That’s because UMG is a big label with big resources. Vinyl is no longer the niche product it once was and they don’t need smaller labels to handle manufacturing for them, making a profit where possible. So now they want to control manufacturing, so they can charge wholesale prices to the buyer. In this case, mewithoutYou is the buyer. What would’ve cost us $6/unit and licensing fee now will cost us $10/unit and licensing fee. And thats fine. Really, it is. It is within their right since those recordings are their intellectual property. But it does suck for us. It sucks for us because we tend to move quickly. mewithoutYou / Pine Street is a small business and Universal Music Group is a big business, with a lot of moving parts. mewithoutYou is a small fish in their great big ocean. As of 9/2 we had been given the green light from Universal’s legal and finance for this release. All the assets had been passed along to them. And since that sign off we’ve been working super hard to have a pre-order up so when the time came for UMG to ship them we’d have ordered an appropriate amount and we’d also have the money for Universal to ship the product to us. But sadly, there has been a communication breakdown with Universal. It has been radio silence from them since September 2nd. As a result we have not been able to put a single piece into production, despite this release being ready to go since July. All this is to say that we no longer feel confident that Universal will be able to make this happen by the end of the year. So we are postponing taking orders until we are confident they can meet our shipping date. These vinyl could still potentially ship before the end of the year, but at this rate we can’t make promises. We think it would be a disservice to our fans to wrangle them into advance ordering only to make the people that love and support our band take on an extended period of waiting. We hope you understand and as soon as we have an estimated timeframe for shipping from Universal we will launch the order page. We are so, so dismayed and sorry to have to pull a false start like this. It is truly embarrassing. In the meantime we hope you enjoy our new website/store. We do have new shirts available and we will be shipping all those things ASAP." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbyers2009 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Yea this sucks but oh well. Some people have been waiting ten months for their love pre-order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerohacker Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 Fuuuuuckkkk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidamnesiac Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Whew. There was a minute in the midst of reading that where I thought it wasn't happening at all and I was terrified because I just sold my first press copy in anticipation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Nice of the band to let the fans know what's up and not leave them in limbo. CaptainHerbalLife, Fridge Fox, agaetisbyrjun and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladewillisisdead Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Fuck this sucks. I had all my shit together too. Now I bet this goes up when I can't afford it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeine Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I blame this on hotel books. DAMMIT HOTEL BOOKS. Hahahahaha! Nice! btw: http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/104525-best-of-2014-so-far/page-5#entry2039310 lssr_ttrgrmmtn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Fox Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Bummer deal. But I'm glad they aren't putting up the preorder without having everything figured out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcafilm Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Solid dudes. Respect for that decision. agaetisbyrjun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daegor Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 It's interesting seeing movement on the whole T&N sale (in tiny pieces from different sources, at a very slow pace) I'm still waiting for I Never Said I Was Brave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thoughtsky Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 $RC sure reads this thread and doesn't get the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHerbalLife Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 I've said it before and I'll say it again. Big Corporation© can suck it. Way to step on the little man again. Although mwY doesn't seem to hold anything against UMG, it's still very unfortunate that things are set up the way they are. We can't argue with it, guys. We got paid to record those records. It only sucks now that we have such an issue with licenses. That sort of thing can't be held against Tooth & Nail or UMG. MG isn't being jerky. Think about it in Mario Kart terms. Boswer has a lot of power, but he moves slow. Doesn't necessarily make him a bad driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Terrible. I love you, mwY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 mewithoutYou @mewithoutYou 1m We do read the Vinyl Collective forums. In case you guys were wondering. CaptainHerbalLife, RadDonut, zerohacker and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHerbalLife Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Ha. That's awesome. It's more than a little humbling that the ramblings I recently left on here might've been read by anyone from the band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaetisbyrjun Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 rynflnnry 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Hahaha amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadDonut Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 We've officially made it! Edit: I really hope this works out and we actually see a release because I just sold my Dark Opaque Red in anticipation. Nice little lesson learned on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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