We just got in some records including the Matt Skiba / Kevin Seconds split, the Andrew Jackson Jihad 10″, Guerilla Poubelle 7″, Alkaline Trio “Good Mourning” on white (VC exclusive), and the new Tom Gabel 12″ which comes with a CD.

A note about the Matt Skiba/Kevin Seconds. Despite what the photos suggest, there are subtle differences with each pressing. The problem is that Rainbo (Asian Man’s vinyl manufacturer) doesn’t do the best job on splatters or swirls. I spoke to Mike today and he has recently changed the name of each color of each record because of the way it turned out and he said that he will never attempt to order swirl variants from Rainbo. The colors are now as follows:

White w/ Green is now White w/ Charcoal Swirl
White w/ Orange is now Coffee Mate Swirl
White w/ Purple is now White w/ Pink/Blue Splatter
White w/ Blue is now White w/ Pink/Grey Splatter (this one is more of a pink than anything)

There are definitely distinguishable color differences with each variety even though our photos don’t show it. And the nice thing is that the album sounds great. Those Matt Skiba tunes are top notch. I dig Kevin’s songs, too, but Matt’s songs are just amazing.

A note about Good Mourning. When we first started taking pre-orders for this, we were under the impression we would get 2 colors and black vinyl. When we heard of another store offering an exclusive color, we asked what it would take for us to get a color. Cobraside said they would give us white as a VC exlcusive. We also have Green and Black, but those are available at other retailers. The white vinyl is out of an edition of 500 copies, not 300 as earlier suggested. I was told the pressing plant over pressed our exclusive, but 500 is still very limited.