Vinyl Collective

Cobraside did a really great job of turning around the replacement 10″ for the Thrice boxset as we received them today. The crew are pulling orders as we speak and we will begin shipping them tomorrow. We have made the decision to place the replacement 10″ outside of the boxset packaging. We figured people would appreciate it if we did not open the sealed bags that house the boxset. I really appreciate everyone’s patience in this matter as this has been the biggest nightmare of Vinyl Collective’s almost 3 year history.

I just got off the phone with my Victory rep and either later today, or early tomorrow, we will be setting up pre-orders for the following releases and with each new release (Bad Brains excluded), we will be setting up Test Pressing Contests. Expect more details soon.

A DAY TO REMEMBER, Homesick LP
BAD BRAINS, Omega Sessions (new color) 10″
BAYSIDE, Shudder LP
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, Alaska dbl LP
BLOOD FOR BLOOD, Outlaw Anthems LP
DARKEST HOUR, Hidden Hands of the Sadist Nation dbl LP (VC exclusive color)
SILVERSTEIN, A Shipwreck In The Sand LP
STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO, Everything Goes Numb LP (VC exclusive color)
THURSDAY, Full Collapse LP

Today is a proud day at Suburban Home/Vinyl Collective. We are excited to be unveiling the new packaging for our shotgunators (check out the video below and the picture). The card that seals the bag that contains the shotgunator has instructions on how to shotgun a beer and the card opens up to give you a business card for our Drunk Dial Hotline. Because of the packaging, we are charging a dollar more in our store and will soon be offering them to our distributors with the hope that mom and pop stores carry the Shotgunator! Do you have a shotgunator yet? What are you waiting for?

The Youtube video finds Brandon showing off the new Shotgunator packaging and he reads from the instructions to shotgun a beer (looks like Brandon can use a little practice on Shotgunning beers).

Suburban Home SHOTGUNATOR black

The Gaslight Anthem played at the Gothic Theater this past Friday and they were amazing. They sounded so good and the sold out audience were freaking out. I took a handful of videos with our new HD Flip camera and the footage looks great. One thing you might notice is the audio isn’t perfect since I took the videos from the stage and the audio it picked up was from the monitors. Still, it sounds good all things considered. If you have a tour date in your town, go see them play. They are on fire.

MINUS THE BEAR “They Make Beer Commercials” LP rainbow transparent vinyl
MINUS THE BEAR “They Make Beer Commercials” LP grey w/ magenta color in color vinyl
MINUS THE BEAR “They Make Beer Commercials” LP VC exclusive color fruity pebbles vinyl

I had originally intended to put together a Minus the bear vinyl lot for a good price, but then I looked at how many copies of Planet of Ice (35), Interpretaciones (10), and Acoustics (23) and figured that I shouldn’t wipe out my stock since most are close to out of print. We don’t plan to repress Interpretaciones and with Planet of Ice, we plan to give it a slight rest while Minus the Bear work on a new album. Maybe we will repress it around the time of that album’s release.

We do have a number of copies of Beer Commercials and reduced the price on them. Note that our exclusive color (out of 500), only 90 remain. Get em while you can.

SUBURBAN HOME SHOTGUNATORS Kickball Jersey

5 of us from Suburban Home are on a kick ball team called the Suburban Home shotgunators. We try to shotgun at least one beer during each game and hope that this intimidates our opponents. I don’t think it has worked as we are 1-2 in preseason, but we feel confident that we will be kicking ass come Sunday when we have our first regular season game. Mike hale and Ninja Gun will be rooting us on before their show in Denver which will serve as an official Kickball afterparty. You are all invited. Since I(virgil) am on the team and I sustained the weakest injury (pulled my quad muscle during warm ups), I decided to sit out of the photo.

We got jerseys made for our team, but I made sure we had a few extra of each size (Small through XXL). Support our kickball team or our label or the fact that you love to shotgun beers! If you can’t read the jersey, it reads “Shotgunators” on top and “Suburban Home Records” underneath. And underneath those words are 3 crushed PBR cans. You know you want to represent!

We just received the latest releases from Solidarity Records, Anchor Down and For the Win. They look great and remember that your purchase enters you to win a really rad Solidarity golden record which entitles you to test pressings and copies of their current and future releases. The winner will be so stoked.

And I just wanted to add that almost everyone at Vinyl Collective endorses Anchor Down. They remind me of Blackout Pact, but Andy was telling him that they reminded him of As Friends Rust, both great bands in my book. They are rad dudes, too.

KAY KAY AND HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND “S/T” dbl LP frosty translucent blue vinyl
KAY KAY AND HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND “S/T” CD
KAY KAY AND HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND “S/T” dbl LP frosty translucent blue vinyl w/ CD and poster

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground are one of the best kept secrets in independent music (at least for right now). I feel so damn lucky that the band and their management took a chance on us to let us put this out on vinyl early last year. The band have continued to do great things ever since we started working with them; they have played a ton of big festivals in the Northwest, did a tour with Rx Bandits and Portugal the Man, and this summer will be doing a tour with MeWithOutYou and Dear Hunter. We have had requests over the past year to release this album on CD and although the band was ok with the release being only available on vinyl initially, they agreed that this would be a good idea.

The artwork for this re-release has been updated. For the vinyl, instead of having the gatefold contain the lyrics, Ralph has put together on absolutely bad ass collage and now the lyrics are contained in a full color insert. The CD packaging will go on record as one of the most elaborate of our history. We are calling it a Special edition, custom French Door digipack w/ fold out poster and lyric sheet. The cover art actually opens down the middle much like a set of french doors and underneath the CD tray is a pocket that has a fold out poster on one side and lyrics on the other side.

We are offering 50 sets that include the double LP, the CD, and a full color poster which ends up being the best deal. Remember that we still have some of their “Diggin” 7″ on both colors and we have a handful of their first press left (around 40 copies).

This is an absolutely amazing album. check out some tracks to stream on their Last.fm site, here.

Check out some of the art:

Gatefold Collage (for dbl LP and CD) CLICK TO ENLARGE

fold out poster for digipack CLICK TO ENLARGE

French Door digipak expanded (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

PORTUGAL THE MAN “Censored Colors” LP gold vinyl
PORTUGAL THE MAN “Censored Colors” LP purple w/ white and green splatter vinyl
PORTUGAL THE MAN Censored Colors LP blue and yellow vinyl

This is the first time we received other colors for “Censored Colors”. I am really stoked to have this back in stock and also want to share some other Portugal news for you. I have had a copy of the Satanic Satanists for a while now and I am gonna go on record to say that this is gonna be my #1 album of 2009. It is absolutely amazing and in my eyes a step up for the band. I am working like hell to get an exclusive color of the album and hope to have news soon about it.

In other radical news, I finally got Defiance to get back to me and it looks very likely that I will have copies of their Portugal vinyl titles. We just set up a trade and I would think that we should have the vinyl in hand in about 3 to 5 weeks. Not sure if they had Wizard in stock, but I am working on that, too.

We will be repressing Church Mouth and Waiter in time for the release of their new album. We will a 500 repress on 1 color.

If you don’t own a copy of this on vinyl, do so now.

TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP cat’s eyes vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP grape vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP deep sea green vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP wizard smoke vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP ocean blue vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP jawbreaker vinyl
TIM VERSION “Prohibition Starts Tomorrow” LP army vinyl

That first batch of Prohibition Starts Tomorrow sold out pretty quickly, here is a restock of most of the colors we offered before. Glad everyone is stoked about this release and hope that means ADD puts more Tim Version on vinyl.