Friends, only 20 more tickets left before we award the following prizes. If you have been on the fence about picking up a raffle ticket, today is your day. If all goes well, we will do a live drawing as early as Friday. One thing I didn’t note before is that it is entirely possible that 1 person could win more than one prize. The chances are not likely, but it could happen. Good luck everyone.
Grand Prize – $500 Gift Certificate in the VC/SH Store First Prize – $250 Gift Certificate in the VC/SH Store Second Prize – $125 Gift Certificate in the VC/SH Store Third Prize – $75 Gift Certificate in the VC/SH Store Fourth Prize – $50 Gift Certificate in the VC/SH Store
Our friend Josh from Vinyl Vlog has sprearheaded a really great idea for the people going down to the Fest. Check this out:
Hello everyone out there in Internet Land!
So we’ve been hinting around about SAVE THE VINYL for some time now and it’s finally time to let the cat out of the bag (or the record out of it’s sleeve you could say).
A couple months ago I had this idea to give something back to the vinyl community at this years FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL. The idea was to provide record mailers to people who purchased records from any one of the number of Bands, Labels or Distros present. This would hopefully help SAVE YOUR VINYL from getting wrecked during the 100’s of different shows you’ll attend throughout the weekend.
Now record mailers do cost money and a couple ideas were thrown around to cover the primary cost. After some debate and discussion with a couple people, Nick from limitedpressing.com stepped up and decided to help sponsor this little event. It is thanks to Nick that SAVE THE VINYL is happening! Please take a few moments and check out his site and what he is attempting to do over there at LP!
After getting the mailers secured another idea was given some thought. Help out some of the bands/labels who have supported Vinyl Vlog over the last year. I elected to start a COMP CD full of bands from across the US and Canada. After speaking with our new buddies in Limited Pressing and old buddies at National Underground, Anchorless Records & Vinyl Collective, we got a handful of awesome bands who were on board. Next we contacted friends and local favorites to fill out the roster you see below.
Now we do agree with you, COMP CDs have died over the past couple of years with the advent of the internet and myspace profiles. So in addition to the COMP CD, we decided to continue what we do best. GIVE AWAY FREE RECORDS!
Almost all of the bands on SAVE THE VINYL have donated records, cds, t shirts and stickers to be given away. We will have 200 record mailers containing 200 comps. Of these 200, 5 are GOLDEN CDs! If you get one of these special CDs you will win a PRIZE PACKAGE! Now ALL CDs do look the same but differ in track listing. The GOLDEN CDs will have SPOKEN WORD tracks instead of a real song. These tracks will have instructions saying that you’ve won a prize package and to email vinylvlog@gmail.com or call a special number. To find out if you won simply LISTEN TO THE CD!
Ok, we do understand that since this CD has multiple UNRELEASED songs from some pretty awesome bands (Smoke or Fire and O Pioneers to name a few) some people NOT attending the FEST may want to hear it so…we have hosted it for free here:
Now I hope this goes without saying but IF you enjoy any of the bands on this COMP please support them and their labels. It would really mean a lot to US and to THEM. For FEST attendees to pick up a mailer/CD just stop by the National Underground booth at sign in on Friday and ask for one!!!!
Well, that’s it. If you have any questions please feel free to Email @ vinylvlog@gmail.com or send us a message via twitter: @vinylvlog.
We really appreciate all of the bands who became part of this little adventure.
Hey guys, just got a call from Chuck saying that they have decided to drive past Denver in an effort to get to their next stop in Salt Lake City. The weather in Denver is absolutely terrible with a ton of snow and lots more on the way. In the city alone, there could be a foot of snow by the morning. I am super bummed as I have been looking forward to seeing the tour since last year. Please have the Revival Tour folks in your thoughts as they have a lot of bad weather to drive through. As Chuck said, they never cancel shows and it really bummed them out to cancel the Denver date. They played in Fargo, North Dakota last night and have to get to Salt Lake City. Man, I was really looking forward to seeing Austin Lucas’ dad, Bob, perform with Austin. Good luck guys getting to the West Coast. Damn you weather.
If the Revival Tour is coming to a town near you, please make sure you attend. This tour needs your support as it is one of the greatest tours going each year.
If you know someone planning to see the Denver date of the Revival Tour, please tell them it has been canceled.
I realize that this sale can be pretty confusing so i wanted to share with you how one person made their selections after spending $100 on our Warehouse Clearance Sale. In addition to the list below (and photographed above), they will be receiving 50 Free CDs. So for $100 plus shipping, they get 8 7″s, 2 double LPs, 11 LPs, 51 CDs, and a T-shirt. Not bad huh?
Find out more about our Warehouse Clearance Sales, here:
EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOMEONE SELECTED WITH THEIR $100 WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE:
AUSTIN LUCAS/FRANK TURNER Under the Influence 7″ O PIONEERS!!!/NEW BRUISES Under the Influence 7″ TIM BARRY / FRANK TURNER Split 7″ 7″ TWO COW GARAGE / JR JUGGERNAUT Under the Influence 7″ DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS Small Steps, Heavy Hooves dbl LP CHAD PRICE Smile Sweet Face LP COBRA SKULLS Sitting Army LP GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV Eastern Northern Hemisphere LP JOEY CAPE Bridge LP NINJA GUN Restless Rubes LP TIM BARRY Rivanna Junction LP TWO COW GARAGE Speaking in Cursive LP MIKE HALE Lives Like Mine LP GHOST BUFFALO The Magician LP DRAG THE RIVER You Can’t Live This Way LP JEALOUS SOUND Kill Them With Kindnes w/ EP dbl LP KID DYNAMITE Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems LP AUSTIN LUCAS Somebody Loves You CD ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD / COBRA SKULLS Under the Influence 7″ TIM BARRY Live at Munford Elementary 7″ KEVIN SECONDS / KEPI GHOULIE Under the Influence 7″ DRAG THE RIVER Garage Rock 7″
The photo you are looking at is the result of my buddy Zach and I putting a little elbow grease in last night to package up all the Portugal the Man “It’s Complicated Being a Wizard” pre-orders. We started out with a huge stack of orders and a dream, and at the end, we not only got them all done, but we had time to get some food at City O City before the Lucero show.
Today, Chris will be sending out all the Tim Barry/Frank Turner splits and most of the Chad Price “Smile Sweet Face” pre-orders. Hopefully our Postal Carrier doesn’t flip out on all the orders with the gnarly weather we are getting. Not sure if you’ve seen reports, but we are getting dumped on by snow. But don’t fret, we are doing all we can to get the pre-orders out and after Tim/Frank and Chad, we will start sending out the Cobra Skulls “American Rubicon” pre-orders.
Thanks everyone for giving me a pedestal upon which I can brag about myself for a second. And Thanks Zach for your help. May boxes of Hot Water Music and Chuck Ragan records arrive at your house today along with a keg of Odell’s Bourbon Stout. And thanks everyone for your patience on these pre-orders.
Congrats friends on winning some really great test pressings. Andres, you are one lucky bastard for winning that Teenage Bottlerocket test pressing. Thanks everyone for entering our test pressing contests. Your day will soon come. Remember, whenever we announce a test pressing contest, you can enter to win by ordering the record associated with the contest. We pick winners weekly. For a list of current contests and past winners, visit this link.
User WannaBePunkTony is back with some new records for our Used Vinyl Sale. This time around, they have listed a number of Fat Wreck and Epitaph titles as well as some records by Gaslight Anthem, MxPx, and the Queers.
Be sure to follow the link to one of the items below to see the other records WannaBePunkTony has for sale. Thanks for listing your records with us again.
User QskaPunk has listed some more records, this time they have listed some slightly obscure records from the likes of Captain Kangaroo (that’s funny), Luke Skawalker, Migraines, Well Fed Smile, and some others from Descendendents, Strike Anywhere, and more.
Take a look at any of the titles listed below and there will be links for all of QSkaPunk’s other items. Bundling orders will save you money on shipping since all of these records will be shipping from Illinois. The response to the Used Vinyl Sales have been fantastic and we expect to invite more people to sell as soon as next week.
Thanks QSkaPunk for posting your records through Vinyl Collective.
It was mentioned the other day that there is a repress of Chuck’s incredible new album, “Gold Country”. There is in fact a repress and your friends at Vinyl Collective have an exclusive color (on Gold as I felt that a record called Gold Country should be eventually pressed on Gold vinyl). The pressing is out of an edition of 300 copies and word from TenFour is that the vinyl has already shipped to us. My guess is we will have it by week’s end. Get a copy before they are all gone. And while you are at it, if you haven’t gotten Chuck’s Daytrotter Sessions 10″, it might be time for you to get those, too. 2009 has been a pretty gnarly year for Chuck Ragan vinyl, but between you and me I would rather see a hundred Chuck Ragan records in 2009 than none.
Gonna see Chuck and the Revival Tour tomorrow night. So stoked.
October 29, 2009 
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