alexschelldorf Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The clowns at SRC stay open and Brian has to close. Cruel and unjust. If you post here often, find something to buy from him before Sunday. Long live IVWT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 the time that shop existed was probably the worst time for me financially to be buying records, and for that i was only able to make one purchase. its a total bummer, because i really would have loved to give them far more of my business. prices were exceptional, they were clearly there for the benefit of the customer/community; just an all-around awesome business model. well, except for the part where theyre closing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan999 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Sounds like he is focusing on being a label: "All, It is with great sadness that I will be closing In Vinyl We Trust as of this Sunday night at midnight. I wanted to thank all of the awesome customers we have had over the last year and a half, you made this project a lot of fun for me and I will certainly miss doing it. I hope that if nothing else, I provided a lot of you with the music you love in a timely manner and for a great price. The current 20% off sale will be extended until Sunday at midnight as well. After that, IVWT will only exist as a label so now is your last chance to grab anything you might have been holding off on. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, pending orders, etc. Thank you all again! - Brian" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 ^ That's the exact same message from the first post. xjustinxschwierx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tittus Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Worst news ever. Seriously put a damper on my day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Very sad to hear this. I would like to thank IVWT for everything from the great prices, to the great sales and to the light speed shipping and fantastic customer service. There's very few distros (and labels) that run such a tight ship and provide such fine service and prices. I'm still not over VinylJunkie closing up shop so this addition is a real bummer. All the best to Brian and anyone else that helped out at IVWT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circuit bored records Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 RIP IVWT. Randomly placed a couple orders this month getting the last of what I wanted from them. Such a great distro all around, had both orders in like 3 days with the lowest prices around and some records that no one else had left in stock. Someone's got some big shoes to fill, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morfiend Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Running a distro is hard work folks. I hope for the owner's sake he didn't lose a bunch of money and is able to build up his label as quickly as he did his distro, which was quite impressive. I always wondered how IVWT was able to offer records so cheap and still be able to turn a profit. My shop is small potatoes compared to IVWT and Vinyl Junkie but it definitely scares me knowing reputible shops like these are closing out of nowhere. Keep supporting small distro's and local record shops folks or all we'll have left is amazon and ebay. kirtah777 and robotfactory 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezfools Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Let's not forget about no idea, they've always been pretty solid in my dealings with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotfactory Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Just placed a large order last week...and just placed another, even larger order a moment ago. IVWT will be greatly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsr00seth Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Definite bummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Fucking goddamn son of a bitch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsoncomplex Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Total bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEN1XD0WN Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 damn shame nothing but good experiences with brian, still surprised to hear the news today. ill definitely be placing an order soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Didn't want to see this distro go but 2 (speculative) comments come to mind: 1) Maybe his records were priced at a level so low it was unsustainable. Maybe it isn't that the other distros are bad. They charge the "fair" price and IVWT didn't charge enough. 2) Didn't like the store layout. With No Idea it all opens in one page, and I just skim from top to bottom grabbing anything that makes me think "I forgot to grab that. Click.". Don't need a picture of the album. Even when you set IVWT to display 100 per page, took a while to get through everything. And it seemed like there were too many bands I had never heard of. Maybe it was a lot of hardcore stuff? To summarize, easy to find a specific record. Not conducive to "window shopping", which is usually what I am doing at a distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Welp. I just spent $50. Bummed to see it go. And I totally disagree about it not being conducive to "window shopping", I wasn't going to buy anything today, but I found everything I bought just by looking through the genres. suchashorttime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I agree with what's his name. IVWT always did right by me but that shop sucked to browse. Then again, most do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusted_By_Space Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I picked up a tom waits lp i was missing, and i echo the statements above, its was hard to browse and i hadnt heard of most of the bands myself, imma try and go find something random to pick up though before sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 A "sort by best-selling" function would also have been useful like Interpunk has. I guess maybe I should have given a little criticism before the shop closed, not after. Probably wouldn't have made a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 what i found really annoying yesterday when i was browsing: when using the search bar, id type in a letter... if i had any previous searches for a band with that letter previously, it would immediately highlight that band. if i kept typing, it would disregard the first letter. so after previously searching for male bonding, minus the bear ended up searching inus the bear. what the shit is that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zick Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 what i found really annoying yesterday when i was browsing: when using the search bar, id type in a letter... if i had any previous searches for a band with that letter previously, it would immediately highlight that band. if i kept typing, it would disregard the first letter. so after previously searching for male bonding, minus the bear ended up searching inus the bear. what the shit is that?? I think that has more to do with your browser and how it does autofill in forms. I'm using Firefox 14, and it does that to me in a drop down box. I never had that problem with IVWT. I did have a little bit of trouble finding stuff with the search because it would also return finds from the description and end up showing hundreds of records instead of the couple that I was looking for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drds89 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 bummed. hope Brian put his good work ethic to use on brighter pastures that will reward him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopthisnoise Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Bought from here a lot. What a shame definitely one of the greater more recent distros i've ever dealt with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkfoster8 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 F. This sucks. And they were so close to me, being in VA and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymirrorspeaks Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Dropped $40 bucks. RIP IVWT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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