Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Got The Visitor today and it was the variant! It's a nice package. Jay Shaw does some great work. I wonder if it was stock still left over from the flat file sale. I remember someone saying the vinyl stock at the sale was mostly variants. And I'm still blowing holes in my theories on whether or not you can tell it's a variant based on the shrinkwrap. I figured if there was a barcode sticker on the back it was a regular copy ready for retail sale. Nope! I can tell you with authority there is no way to tell on 95% of the records, from the outside, whether it is a regular or a variant. Trips us up sometimes too... this is an informal apology to anyone I promised a Variant to and accidentally sent a regular Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsuodaironman Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I can tell you with authority there is no way to tell on 95% of the records, from the outside, whether it is a regular or a variant. Trips us up sometimes too... this is an informal apology to anyone I promised a Variant to and accidentally sent a regular I pretty much figured asking you about my 2001 was pointless, but I ended up getting lucky on the variant any way! I always thought the artwork might have a little "Where's Waldo" marking in the artwork, so you'd be able to pick out the variants from the black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I love the new headline of this thread. I had never realized Spencer was openly advertising Twin Peaks on all of his past releases (just got his backstock in from the UK and saw it for the first time on the Halloween III Deluxe Re-Issue) Since it's not a reveal, I can assure you Twin Peaks is still happening. It's on the calendar for this year, but I'll let Spencer be the one to give the official announce date when he have that locked. tetsuodaironman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I pretty much figured asking you about my 2001 was pointless, but I ended up getting lucky on the variant any way! I always thought the artwork might have a little "Where's Waldo" marking in the artwork, so you'd be able to pick out the variants from the black. Believe it or not, having slightly different artwork is wildly more expensive than changing disc colors. DeskCop was onto something about the barcodes, except that oddly only happened on the Batman Die-Cut record by accident, and that one was sold by color preference anyway so it didn't matter haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Hey Mo any ETA on the rest of the GOTG soundtracks being shipped? I know some people have received a shipping notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Gogh Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I love the new headline of this thread. I had never realized Spencer was openly advertising Twin Peaks on all of his past releases (just got his backstock in from the UK and saw it for the first time on the Halloween III Deluxe Re-Issue) Since it's not a reveal, I can assure you Twin Peaks is still happening. It's on the calendar for this year, but I'll let Spencer be the one to give the official announce date when he have that locked. Any news on that Last of Us release at all? ;-) Blumplum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsuodaironman Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Believe it or not, having slightly different artwork is wildly more expensive than changing disc colors. DeskCop was onto something about the barcodes, except that oddly only happened on the Batman Die-Cut record by accident, and that one was sold by color preference anyway so it didn't matter haha. Also, Mo, was the Scanners a PO or when does that ship? Kinda excited to see how the blood-splattered variant looks given Mondo's track record on mind-blowing looking colorways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsuodaironman Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Any news on that Last of Us release at all? ;-) Oh, God yes. I just got my PS4 and this is the first thing I downloaded! Loved the PS3 version too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Hey Mo any ETA on the rest of the GOTG soundtracks being shipped? I know some people have received a shipping notice. If it helps they haven't actually shipped as far as I know. At least mine is just "shipping label created" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Believe it or not, having slightly different artwork is wildly more expensive than changing disc colors. For my own curiosity, could you elaborate on this? I could see that being the case with totally different art as you potentially need do all the color separations, stroking and other production tasks twice, when can be time-consuming, especially when your artists hands you a shit file. But if you're not burning new plates or screens is there hidden costs I'm not aware of with jacket production? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natenomm Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 If it helps they haven't actually shipped as far as I know. At least mine is just "shipping label created" Mine departed from Dallas today and is slated to arrive on Tuesday next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Mine usually goes back to Austin from Dallas for a bit, then back to Dallas, then sometimes back to Austin, then Dallas, then beyond. My suspicion is someone in Dallas is going: "Vermont, y'all can't ship Media Mail to Canada!" and sending it back a few times before it finds the right employee to send it on the journey north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Hey Mo any ETA on the rest of the GOTG soundtracks being shipped? I know some people have received a shipping notice. Yeah, definitely. It's going to be a long process as we sold quite a few. We are trying to do it in order, so the people who bought them on our old site are being taken care of first. I don't want to lock us into a firm timeline, but if you ordered in the first two weeks or so, you should be getting shipping notification soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Any news on that Last of Us release at all? ;-) Also this year hopefully Without going into too much detail, the test pressing process has been a bit arduous on that one. Once we have those approved, we'll get it on the official release calendar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desk Cop Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Mine usually goes back to Austin from Dallas for a bit, then back to Dallas, then sometimes back to Austin, then Dallas, then beyond. My suspicion is someone in Dallas is going: "Vermont, y'all can't ship Media Mail to Canada!" and sending it back a few times before it finds the right employee to send it on the journey north. And I thought I had it bad getting stuff up here to Montana. Guaranteed a Federal holiday will throw a wrench in the works and the package will be lost for a day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desk Cop Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Also this year hopefully Without going into too much detail, the test pressing process has been a bit arduous on that one. Once we have those approved, we'll get it on the official release calendar. So excited for this one I can't stand it. Santollalla killed that score. Holy buckets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hecollec+or Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I imagine an order with Scanners & Death Waltz stuff will probably be awhile? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Also, Mo, was the Scanners a PO or when does that ship? Kinda excited to see how the blood-splattered variant looks given Mondo's track record on mind-blowing looking colorways. No, not a Pre Order. I'll get some photos up of it soon. I just didn't have a physical copy of everything to photograph before we dropped them. They are pressed and arriving to us next week. They should begin shipping next week, along with all of the DW stuff. tetsuodaironman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I imagine an order with Scanners & Death Waltz stuff will probably be awhile? Hoping to start shipping everything from that drop next week. Underline the word hopefully. I don't want to write checks if my shipping team can't cash (they are trying to get the first wave of Guardians out as fast as possible first) tetsuodaironman and andrewlucas 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hecollec+or Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Hoping to start shipping everything from that drop next week. Underline the word hopefully. I don't want to write checks if my shipping team can't cash (they are trying to get the first wave of Guardians out as fast as possible first) Sounds good... thanks Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo48Mo Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 For my own curiosity, could you elaborate on this? I could see that being the case with totally different art as you potentially need do all the color separations, stroking and other production tasks twice, when can be time-consuming, especially when your artists hands you a shit file. But if you're not burning new plates or screens is there hidden costs I'm not aware of with jacket production? sure! when it comes to print, there are always minimums. You find it sometimes with screen printing posters, since you have to justify the creation of the screens, but with offset printing it is near impossible to find anyone who doesn't have a print minimum of at least 500. Now, that doesn't mean you can't order 200, or 100, or even 50 from a printer... but you are still paying for 500 - it just goes into your cost per unit. Does that make sense? So even the slightest change to art makes it a new file that carries a new minimum. And new set up fees. It's just never made sense to us to do alternate print for a variant version... except for "Version B" records, of which we typically do a run of 1,000. And for those we usually* do COMPLETELY different art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Mine departed from Dallas today and is slated to arrive on Tuesday next week. luckyyyy. still waiting on mine to move haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yeah Mo, that makes perfect sense. My production knowledge is limited to the art side (with snowboards, so not really an analog) not the logistical. It hadn't occurred to me to think about the minimums. No amount of production trickery can get around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Yeah, definitely. It's going to be a long process as we sold quite a few. We are trying to do it in order, so the people who bought them on our old site are being taken care of first. I don't want to lock us into a firm timeline, but if you ordered in the first two weeks or so, you should be getting shipping notification soon. Gotcha! I ordered near the end so I'll be waiting a awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsuodaironman Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Gotcha! I ordered near the end so I'll be waiting a awhile. Took you a while to pull the trigger on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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