I think that this is the craziest leap year in recent memory. We have so many crazy things going on at Vinyl Collective that it is hard to keep it all straight. The Recess pre-orders are going like crazy and I am sure we will sell most of the Screeching Weasel, Queers, and Off With their Heads over the weekend. We got the ok to get 200 more Alkaline Trio goddamnits and those are already moving fast. I really hope we can get both colors of that one, we will know around the middle of March exactly what we got.
This next week we will be posting the new Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 7″ (maybe Monday), we have new singles by Radiohead, Thom Yorke, and Band of Horses coming in too. I have a shit ton of restocks coming in. I also have records coming in from Botch, Clutch, more Weakerthans, more Loved Ones, and the list goes on and on. My head is spinning keeping up with all of this.

I started an account with a distro who will be getting in the Elliott Smith represses and we should those towards the end of March. I will be getting in that Hives repress this week, too.

We are about to sign a lease on a new space to move Vinyl Collective out of my house. Also, Steph is going to go back to her previous employer and in her place, I have hired two friends, Justin and Seabron. They started working this week and things have already gone so smoothly. The prospects are really exciting and I feel really lucky to be in the center of all of this.

We will be getting in the Alkaline Trio (the first 5 colors) and the Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground in early this next week and will work on getting those out right away. We also just got in the Able Baker Fox, but we won’t be able to get those out til Monday. I hope everyone understands.

It is beer:30 and my buddy Joey is about to pick me up to go see Against Me, Git Some, and Eyes and Ears in Ft Collins. It should be a good night.

I mentioned in a previous thread that I am really gonna try and expand our catalog and eventually be the place to get most available vinyl. Have a great weekend and thanks so much for your support.