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Wed 30 Sep 2009

Suburban Home/VC launches Digital Store, FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER

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SUBURBAN HOME RECORDS Chad Price Fall/Winter Sampler DIGITAL ALBUM (mp3)

This is a really exciting day. We are proud to be able to offer our digital releases to you in our online store. I know, I know, “welcome to 1999″. Yes, I know we are a bit slow to make this happen, but better late than never right? Well, you might ask why we would want to sell our digital releases directly when folks can get our albums on Itunes, Amazon, and so on. Without going into a long tirade, I will quickly explain the economics of a sale on Itunes. Itunes sells our albums for $9.99, they take 30 percent and give $7.00 to our digital distributor, IODA. IODA takes 15 percent and pays us $5.95. Don’t get me wrong, I love that our albums are available on Itunes and think the world of IODA, but instead of making Itunes some money, I would prefer to pass that savings onto all of you.

So from this point on, you can get Suburban Home albums on mp3 for $5.99, on the Flac format for $7.99. Our Under the Influence singles and 7″ records can be purchased digitally on mp3 for $1.25 and on the Flac format for $1.99. For those of you not familiar with Flac, it is a lossless format. Our mp3s are encoded at 320Kbps.

To commemorate the launch of our digital store, we want to give you a FREE, SUBURBAN HOME SAMPLER! The sampler is being given away locally to promote Chad Price’s upcoming release shows. It features 3 songs by Chad Price (2 studio tracks, 1 live track, a song from Micah Schnabel (of Two Cow Garage)’s first solo album, a live Two Cow Garage track from Suburban Home’s 14th Anniversary (their cover of American Girl recorded by James Freeman), and tracks from nearly all of our releases over the past year. You can get the digital album by checking out through our store (it is free), and sooner than later, you will receive an email with the digital download code to download the sampler. This is how it will work if you purchase any of our digital albums. Purchase it and hopefully sooner than later (within a half an hour, hopefully sooner), you will get a link and a code to download the album.

Here is a direct link to our MP3 releases:
Here is a direct link to our FLAC releases:

Wed 30 Sep 2009

PO: Strike Anywhere,Hellmouth,Glaciers,Forfeit

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STRIKE ANYWHERE “Iron Front” LP
HELLMOUTH “Destroy Everything, Worship Nothing” LP
GLACIERS “And The Sea Won The Vinyl” LP
FORFEIT “The Lower Depths” LP

Got some new records coming in from Revelation including the debut for Bridge 9 for Strike Anywhere. I am really looking forward to hearing this. Been a big fan of Thomas and co ever since I first heard Inquisition. It is too bad they are no longer on Fat, but I feel like they might have found a good home with Bridge 9.

Hellmouth is the latest project from Suicide Machine members. I have heard nothing but good things.

we should have all of these records in by October 6th.

Wed 30 Sep 2009

STORE GLITCH: Death Cab,Jawbreaker,Mariachi El Bronx,Red Fang

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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Something About Airplanes” LP re-issue
JAWBREAKER “Dear You” dbl LP
MARIACHI EL BRONX “S/T” LP
RED FANG “S/T” LP red vinyl

Our store tends to fuck up here and there and about a week ago, the store had a complete meltdown and deleted all of our titles from one distributor, Revolver. We are still trying to put together all the pieces, but we do know that these 4 titles were in our store. Wish us luck as we try and find the other titles missing from our store.

Wed 30 Sep 2009

ENDS TONIGHT! Suburban Home 14th Anniversary Discount ($14 off or 14% off)

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THIS SALE ENDS ON TONIGHT, SEPTEMBER 30TH

All good things come to an end and that applies to our 14th Anniversary discount. If you haven’t taken advantage of our deals, this is your last chance to dance. TONIGHT, THE SALE ENDS AND OUR CRAZY INVESTMENT OFFERS BEGIN!

Thanks for your support of what we do. I would not be here if it weren’t for the independent music supporters from all over the planet that have helped to support what we do. To show you our gratitude, I wanted to offer you 1 of 2 discount possibilities:

Spend over $50 and get $14 off your order by using the coupon code SHANNIV14

Spend any amount and take 14 percent off of your order SH14PERCENT

Here are a few suggestions on how you should spend your money:

Suburban Home’s I Celebrate Their Entire Catalog Sale – you get every in print Suburban Home CD, an I Celebrate Their Entire Catalog T-shirt, and our next 10 CD releases mailed to your house
Our Pick 5 for $25 or Pick 10 for $50 plus bonus CDs – for a short time longer, we are offering you 5 free CDs of our choice with your pick 5 for $25 or 10 free CDs of our choice for our pick 10 for $50 sale. There is a long list of great CDs, vinyl, and pint glasses available with this deal.
Suburban Home CDs are $5.00 each – for the rest of the month, every Suburban Home CD is only $5.00 each. Load up before we jack up the prices to $8.99.
SH/VC Wholesale Vinyl Sale – for the rest of the month, all of our excluse vinyl is available at either our wholesale price that we sell it to distributors for or even lower (don’t tell our distributors). These coupons make it even cheaper.
Our Bargains section – take a look at this category in our store, there is a killer Ferret vinyl sale, a few Drag the River sales, a Tim Barry sale, and more.

Those are just a few of the deals that will help you to get the best deal possible. Thanks everyone. Here’s hoping we will be around for another 14 years!

Wed 30 Sep 2009

WHATEVER Wednesday Update

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WHATEVER ($5.00 MYSTERY ITEM(S)), Feeling Adventurous? Want a Surprise?

The Whatever sales have been one of the biggest surprises at Vinyl Collective. We have sold 600 so far and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. I just wanted to give you an update on stuff we are putting in Whatever’s this week for a handful of lucky folks:

A Vinyl Cooperative Unit of Participation – someone sold one back to us and we couldn’t think of a better way to get rid of one so we will be mailing one to one lucky individual. If you get it, please make sure you drop us a line.
Test Pressings – We have recently approved test pressings for Portugal the Man it’s complicated being a wizard, the 3 newest Under the Influence 7″s (Joey/Mike, O Pioneers/New Bruises, Kevin/Kepi), Gregory Alan Isakov, Tim Barry/Frank Turner split, Chad Price LP, and more. We will be sending one of each test pressing to a handful of lucky Whatever purchasers.
3 packages of Beef Jerkey – went to the corner store and bought some beef jerkey. Hopefully a vegan doesn’t end up with it, but if they do, hopefully they are not too offended. Sorry in advance.
More Records, CDs, T-shirts, Coozies, Stickers, Posters, and more.

Good luck!

Wed 30 Sep 2009

On the cover of Draft Magazine, Great American Beer Fest #GABF

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Well, not really, but kind of. Draft Magazine had a camera set up where you can take a photo and they would put it on a mock cover of their magazine. Good times. This was a little after the halfway point of the night at the Great American Beer Fest. With me are Zach (Grey Flight Records/Clay Street) and Dylan/T-bone (does Merch with 3oh3 and soon Bayside).

Yes, the “I Listen to Independent Music, I Drink Craft Beer” shirts look great. And yes, we look drunk.

Tue 29 Sep 2009

New/R: Wilco,Riverdales,Big D,Lawrence Arms,AJJ,Link 80

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BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE “Fluent In Stroll” dbl LP clear/clear blue vinyl
LAWRENCE ARMS “Cocktails & Dreams” dbl LP chicago colored vinyl
LINK 80 “The Struggle ContinuesÖ” LP
RIVERDALES “Phase 3″ LP clear gold vinyl
WILCO “A.M” 180 gram LP + CD

We just got in the replacements for the damaged Big D and the Kids Table records. sorry for those of you who have been waiting. We have some extras now too. We got a small order from Asian Man which includses the Lawrence Arms, Link 80, and Riverdales. We also got in the new Andrew Jackson Jihad. lastly, we got 2 of the 3 Wilco reissues in, A.M. Sorry these have all taken so long. The 3rd one should be out in a month.

Tue 29 Sep 2009

MCRACKINS/THE PROZACS,MCRACKINS/ LOS DIMAGGIOS 7″s

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MCRACKINS/ THE PROZACS “Somebody Out There Loves Us” 7″
MCRACKINS/ LOS DIMAGGIOS split 7″

Left coast canadian pop-punk band, The Mcrackins team up with right coast american pop-punk band, The Prozacs for this great slab of wax!

The McRackins were actually on the Suburban Home’s first ever CD release that came out in 1996. They did a song called “Canadian Love Song”. Stoked to hear these guys, they have always written the catchiest songs. Can’t tell, is still 2 Eggs and a Dog?

Tue 29 Sep 2009

GNARLY WHALES “Unicorns Of The Sea” 7″

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GNARLY WHALES “Unicorns Of The Sea” 7″ grey vinyl
GNARLY WHALES “Unicorns Of The Sea” 7″ purple vinyl

Debut 7″ from Gnarly Whales, a folk punk band from the middle of nowhere Florida playing homemade instruments. For fans of Ghostmice, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Defiance Ohio, and etc.

Tue 29 Sep 2009

Fourth round of winners for Gaslight Anthem Tickets announced

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We are proud to announce the fouth round of winners for a pair of tickets to see the Gaslight Anthem on their current tour. We have emailed the winners, but if you are curious, their names are posted next to the date of the tour they won a pair of tickets for. Congrats friends.

There are still plenty of opportunities to win tickets. We will be announcing winners every week until the tour is over. We will be giving away a pair of tickets to every date on the tour. Here is how it works:

Purchase anything in the Vinyl Collective store by any of the bands on this tour. This includes releases by The Gaslight Anthem, Murder by Death, Loved Ones, Ninja Gun, Frank Turner, Broadway Calls, and/or the Measure SA. Either search for one of the artists in our store or follow this link which has releases by all the bands on this tour.
Email Seabron your Checkout Complete email and in the subject of that email list one of the cities and the date you would like to win a pair of tickets to (refer to the list below).
Seabron each week will announce the winners. Seabron will email the winners letting them know and we will post the winners each week on the blog and messsage board.

In addition to the contest, we want to encourage everyone to post photos, videos, stories, comments about the date(s) you are attending. I have set up an Official Gaslight Anthem Tour thread on the message board. You can find it here. I just posted a little blurb about my experience at the Gaslight Anthem show on this thread. Be sure to add your own bits.

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, MURDER BY DEATH, LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS TOUR

9/8 Pittsburgh, PA- Mr Smalls Theatre w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Ninja Gun – Joshua Dawson
9/9 Cincinnati, OH- Bogarts w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Ninja Gun – John Scott
9/10 Sauget, IL-Pop’s w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Ninja Gun – Paul Frost
9/11 Omaha, NE- Sokol Auditorium w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Ninja Gun – Thad Teply
9/13 Denver, CO- Ogden Theatre w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner – Sean Horan
9/15 Scottsdale, AZ- Martini Ranch w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones – Michael Langford
9/16 San Diego, CA- House of Blues w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Erica Lansing
9/17 Los Angeles, CA-Henry Fonda Theatre w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Nick Smith
9/18 Anaheim, CA- Chain Reaction w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, Frank Turner Michael Segura
9/19 San Jose, CA- Channel 104.9’s Radio Fest at SJ state w/Flogging Molly, The Bravery, Jack’s Mannequin Michael Perez
9/20 San Francisco, CA- The Fillmore w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Manish Patel
9/22 Portland, OR- Berbati’s Pan w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Scott Santos
9/23 Seattle, WA-Showbox w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Jim Berres
9/24 Vancouver, BC- Commodore Ballroom w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Derek Atkinson
9/26 Edmonton, AB- Edmonton Event Center w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Embeth Davidtz
9/27 Calgary, AB- MacEwan Ballroom w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Chris Jakul
9/29 Ragina, SK- Riddell Centre w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Bill Pope
10/1 Winnipeg, MB- Garrick Centre w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Mitch Hoffman
10/3 Minneapolis, MN- Epic w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Kyle Pederson
10/4 Milwaukee, WI- Turner Hall w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Kyle Stofen
10/5 Grand Rapids, MI- The Intersection w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, Frank Turner Robert Lee
10/6 Detroit, MI- St. Andrews Hall w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Dave Jennings
10/7 Rochester, NY- Water Street Music Hall w/Murder By Death, Loved Ones, Frank Turner Steven Mancini
10/12 Buffalo, NY- Town Ballroom w/Murder By Death, Jesse Malin, Broadway Calls Mathew Miller
10/13 Toronto, ON- Kool Haus w/Murder By Death, Jesse Malin, Broadway Calls
10/15 New York, NY- Terminal 5 w/Murder By Death, Jesse Malin, Broadway Calls
10/17 Boston, MA- House of Blues w/Murder By Death, Jesse Malin, Broadway Calls
10/18 Philadelphia, PA- The Trocadero w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, Broadway Calls
10/21 Richmond, VA- The National w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, the Measure
10/22 Washington, DC- 9:30 Club w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, the Measure
10/23 Nashville, TN- Mercy Lounge w/The Loved Ones and the Measure
10/24 Atlanta, GA- Masquerade w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones and the Measure
10/25 Charlotte, NC- Tremont Music Hall w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones and the Measure
10/26 Columbus, OH- Newport Music Hall w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, the Measure
10/27 Chicago, IL- House of Blues w/Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, The Measure