While I have already posted photos taken by the label when I announced the pre-order, I figured I would post a photo letting you know that the records have arrived. I have to say that those guys at Loose Charm know how to package up records. Not only were the records double-packed, there was tons of cardboard and newspaper keeping everything in perfect condition. If you pre-ordered the record and there were no other pre-orders with your order, the records should ship today. If you haven’t pre-ordered this LP, I have 5 copies left on white vinyl. Order one while you can or order it directly from the label.

Thanks for making this such a great pre-order. If you haven’t given our stream a listen or visited the band’s Myspace page, I highly recommend you do.

And next week, I will announce the winner of a set of both colors of this LP. Good luck.

Just picked up the final repress of Minus the Bear’s “Planet of Ice”. These took a little bit longer than I had hoped, but records almost always do. I think both colors turned out nice even though I was expecting something completely different for the Clear w/ Purple Splash. I think that the folks at Rainbo who work with Record Pressing just don’t have the ability to separate out colors. While I might not have ordered this color had I known they would have turned out this way, I do like how they turned out. What do you think?

For those of you curious about when these records will ship, they are being packed and shipped as I write. I hope to get most out today, but some will go out tomorrow. Thanks for everyone’s patience.

And I wanted to offer a test pressing to one person who can identify the at least 5 differences between this final repress and the previous pressings. Email me your submissions and I will pick a winner in about a month from now. I will also pick the normal test pressing winner sometime next week. Good luck.

I just got this in the mail yesterday and after 2 spins, i am really, really enjoying this album. I am guessing that most of you are not familiar with Jeff Rowe, but I hope everyone lends an ear. You can hear tunes on his myspace page or listen to a track from this album on the latest Suburban Home Records Mix Tape. I like the album a lot and have a feeling it is gonna be in constant rotation. It reminds me of Rocky Votolato but there is more of a working class aesthetic to the songs on Jeff Rowe’s album. While I still have a lot of time to spend with the album, I am already feeling a connection to the lyrics. Anchorless scores another fantastic release. I recommend everyone pick up a copy.

While I pre-ordered the Red 180 gram vinyl (haven’t yet received it), I hung out with Jordan (mastermind behind Sabot) who was touring with Against Me and Silversun Pickups and he was kind enough to give me a copy of the white 180 gram vinyl. Let me just say that the packaging is top notch. The gatefold jackets are heavy duty, almost book bound, and the 180 gram vinyl is obviously heavy duty. It’s surprising that you can get the LPs for only $10 through the Sabot store since the cost to make these had to have cost a pretty penny.

A little note in case you haven’t purchased it and are deciding which to purchase, Jordan mentioned that the White vinyl is slightly more rare than the Red. He also mentioned that while they haven’t yet sold out of the colored vinyl, it is well on its way to selling out. Buy this vinyl before you miss out on a chance to get this album on vinyl. Jordan mentioned that next up will be That Much Further West and Ben Nichols’ solo album. I will be first in line for both of those records.

The records arrived today and I gotta say, they look great. If you pre-ordered your copies from Interpunk, they might have already shipped. If not, they will ship very soon. If you have a subscription for volumes #5 through #14, yours will ship early next week. If you missed out on pre-ordering, Interpunk has a handful of each color available. Banquet Records and Shop Radio Cast have a handful, too. After I send out subscription copies and a few distributor orders, I will have a few to offer in our store. This record will soon be out of print so get your copy now.

Jay at United sent me a link to United’s facebook profile where they are showing off a photo of the Fallen from the Sky / Wonder Years Under the Influence 7″ which is on the presses right now. If all goes as planned, copies could be shipping as soon as Friday or Monday if you pre-ordered through Interpunk or if you subscribed to Under the Influence volumes 5 through 14. Thanks to everyone’s patience.

And if you haven’t pre-ordered, this record will be out of print within a few weeks as the distributor pre-orders plus mailorder pre-orders and subscriptions equal almost the number of copies being pressed.

UTI #14 is being mastered right now and artwork is being put together.

If want a set of Under the Influence 7″s volumes 1 through 12, I have an auction posted at Limited Pressing starting at 99 cents.

Yesterday, I had announced one, final Vinyl Collective repress for Minus the Bear’s Planet of Ice. In that post, I asked Juan Diniz to send me a photo of every variant and sure enough, he did it. Juan probably has one of the most complete Minus the Bear collections I know of. I figured it might help some of you to see all the earlier pressings before suggesting what color of vinyl we should do for this final repress.

Thanks Juan.

While I have yet to see this for my own eyes, my friend, Jeff Smith, sent over a photo showing the difference between the colors on Look Mexico’s To Bed to Battle. On the left, you see what is more of an orange-ish color, while the one on the right is more of what we are calling Salmon. The Orange was pressed out of an edition of 75 copies while the Salmon was out of 425. This happened because the pressing plant ran out of the pink color they were using to get more of the Salmon color. While there are definitely copies floating around at places like Interpunk and various distros and it is quite possible that Look Mexico have some, it is hard to know exactly who has them. Good luck finding them. I am hoping I can snag one of the orange ones.

Groom’s cake (Fucking awesome nod to the Descendents)

Wedding Favor Bowls (how stoked would you be to take this home, sure beats the hell out of most of the favors I have received)

Pretty sweet Menu for the Wedding

Longtime supporter, Stephen Abbots from the UK, recently sent me these photos of items from his wedding. First of all, Congratulations buddy. I hope everything went perfectly. And I hope losing your virginity was all that you had hoped it would be (just kidding, or maybe I’m not). I have to say that if these photos are any indication of the time spent on making the wedding awesome, I have not doubt everything was amazing.

While I did not get Stephen’s approval to post this in the first of what will hopefully be a long running series of posts called “Show and Tell”, I figured he would give me his blessing. I would want the world to see the end results of all the hard work. My idea for future show and tell’s is send us some photos and tell us a story. Do you have a complete Get Up Kids’ vinyl collection? Send us the photos and tell us a little bit about your collection. Take a photo of you with your most expensive record in your collection and tell us a bit about it. I will from time to time ask for more focused “Show and Tell”‘s but you get the idea.

Here is what Stephen had to say about the photos:
My wedding is this Saturday and I thought you might dig some of the record related stuff I’ve managed to fit into it. Attached are pictures of the menus and wedding favour bowls made out of cheap second hand 7″s and also there’s a pic of my grooms cake parodying one of my favourite albums (I understand a grooms cake is a tradition in some parts of America, we don’t normally have them in the UK but I read about them and thought why not, more cake is always a plus).

It took a lot longer than we expected to get the rest of the Look Mexico vinyl, but they finally arrived and the pre-orders are getting sent out. thanks for everyone’s patience. Here are photos of the deluxe set items. I couldn’t find my camera so I had to take photos on my Iphone (but you get the idea). We have a few deluxe sets left; if you want one, just email me. thanks.