mossy Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Ya just got the email as well... Damn it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipyourbartender Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 I got this email from Acoustic Sounds yesterday. It gets pretty juicy toward the middle: Dear Customer, We very sincerely regret to inform you that due to circumstances beyond our control, we will not be able to send you the Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute LP that you preordered from Acoustic Sounds. You of course will not be charged for that item. This is extraordinarily disappointing to us. We've tried everything we possibly could to convince Warner Bros. that they were making a big mistake by not repressing this title to allow vendors like ourselves to meet our preorder demand. In fact, being as big of an account as we are, we feel totally disrespected. They had more than 1,300 preorders of this title, but they only pressed 1,000 copies. After a long conversation with a Warner Bros. executive, here is the response we asked them to write to you, our customer. Again, we're very sorry for this. You did the right thing by preordering, but in this case, unfortunately, you will not get what you deserve. We don't know that it will make you feel any better, but here is the response from Warner Bros.: Glassjaw-Worship And Tribute was produced in a Limited Edition run of 1,000 copies in support of Record Store Day 2011. While this release was not designated as an RSD exclusive it was still incredibly limited in nature. While this may seem odd or counterintuitive in this wonderful capitalist society, we meant for the release to be limited. We ended up with more orders than records and, unfortunately, had to allocate orders across our account base. Acoustic Sounds was impacted and, as a result, is unable to fulfill all pre-orders they received. It is never our intent for the music fan to be unconvinced. Our sincere apologies if that has occurred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjo09 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Odd that they recognise they could sell more yet just refuse to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 That whole response sounds weird to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanicus Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 It isn't the email I got. I just got one that said my order was canceled, that it was on back-order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youmightbewrong Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 It isn't the email I got. I just got one that said my order was canceled, that it was on back-order. Fucked up, that they would give you hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 Odd that they recognise they could sell more yet just refuse to Well they did press 3000 of these, they just didnt press as many black copies as white copies. Its readily available for anyone who wants a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattisr1984 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 that statement makes no sense. it was something special for RSD but it wasnt a RSD release. oh, but the street was the 19th, not the 16th - 3 days after RSD. were a major label that has probably complained about physical sales of music being down but in this instance, we dont want them. anyway, theyre busy - gotta get back to pressing 10 zillion copies of chinese democracy on vinyl so best buy can mark them down to a $1.99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzo Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 sounds like the people like myself who pre-ordered through Amazon are getting the dick on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipyourbartender Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 To me, it looks like Acoustic Sounds got nasty with WB, and therefore got a nasty response back. Not sure if sharing that letter with their customers was right or wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booyahachieved Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 sounds like the people like myself who pre-ordered through Amazon are getting the dick on this one. That's for damn sure. I'm not getting my hopes up that Amazon will actually come through with this. Fortunately, I scrambled together an order with gohastings.com once I got wind of the situation. It came today and it is on black vinyl. It wasn't packed all that well but from what I understand they did the best they could. No damage or anything so I shouldn't complain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haze Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 So, are you still able to order the black vinyl from gohastings.com? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherson123 Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 No. They are sold out. And they are assholes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haze Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Hawaii HT still doesn't have this.FAIL. www.hottopic.com by the way, getting it in the store is a little cheaper, due to not having to pay for shipping.And the HT in Corpus Christi, TX said they never got any. /inconvenienced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haze Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 No. They are sold out. And they are assholes. How so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Finally got the one I ordered from HT.com today. Great packaging on their part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanmccauley38 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 fuckphuckphilly Seriously. Fuck that dude... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I just checked ebay and it looks like that heartshapedmilk guys plan failed. Not one copy sold at $45. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivinyl Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 New to the boards - been lurking this for a couple weeks now. I pre-ordered the black press from amazon and got my cancelation email today (bastards). Anyways I bought 2 white HT press just in case i found myself in this situation, if anybody wants to trade for a black press hit me up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I haven't seen people hunt down black vinyl like this in quite sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherson123 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 No. They are sold out. And they are assholes. How so? They sell vinyl and they ship from multiple locations yet they have no uniform shipping policy for their employees to follow so you MIGHT get lucky and get someone who knows how to ship vinyl or you MIGHT get the dumbshits that send it in a flimsy yellow envelope with no stiffening....like I did. I wonder how they'd ship crystal china... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 How so? They sell vinyl and they ship from multiple locations yet they have no uniform shipping policy for their employees to follow so you MIGHT get lucky and get someone who knows how to ship vinyl or you MIGHT get the dumbshits that send it in a flimsy yellow envelope with no stiffening....like I did. I wonder how they'd ship crystal china... Forgot to mention selling exclusive vinyl from another company... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherson123 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 ^ True. Even though I got black, I also read that others received white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasma36 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I haven't seen people hunt down black vinyl like this in quite sometime. If I had any interest in buying this I'd want it on black. Not the biggest fan of white vinyl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I've been buying black whenever I can lately. Got this on black, ordered the cheaper Rise Against 7" which I assume is black.. I just don't care about colored vinyl. I want it for the music. (Says the guy with every variant of a few ETID albums.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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