VERSE Aggression LP pre-orders shipped on Friday June 20th and Saturday June 21st. Expect them to start showing up at your doors as they work their way through the mail system.
- Please do not email me asking "where is my order" until August 1st, to allow sufficient time for all United States Post Office blunders to be out of the equation.
- PLEASE BE PATIENT, especially folks on the EAST COAST. Media mail from California to the East Coast can often take longer than international mail from California to Europe. This is farily normal. Just be patient. Media mail costs $3.00 and takes forever. Priority mail (2-3 days) costs $10-$13 from Cali to the East Coast on 1 or 2 LPs, and it's a total rip off. There's no middle ground, so media mail is the only option.
- Sorry this was a tad bit delayed. I myself only got these LPs in about 10 days ago and had to assemble them all, pack orders, etc. I'm actually amazed they got out this quickly. The only reason they did is because of the help of a very few kind friends who didn't mind working in a 105 degree garage for 5-8 hours a day.
- In fact it pretty much did ship exactly when I said it would - here is the original pre-order post: "Street date is supposedly June 10th, but due to pressing plant being over-booked for the next month, these pre-orders probably won't ship till LATE JUNE. This is an estimate, I don't have an exact ship date like our pre-orders usually do."
Expect your Verse LP pre-orders to start arriving on your doorstep sometime in the ballpark of June 20th-June 30th.
I only just now just got the Verse LPs in. The pressing plant has been really backed up lately. So that means the street date for the LP version got pushed back to June 17th (from the original June 10th date).
Please don't bitch and complain that you "could have just bought it from a distro" when you start seeing them showing up in stores/distros on street date of June 17th. Because of the delay, my distributor(s) and myself got the records on the exact same day (today). That means whoever can process their orders faster will get the records out first.... And trust me, the distributors have a hell of a lot more manpower than I do, so they'll get their copies out to the world quicker than I ever could. I'm just one dude working on these after work and on the weekends, assembling thousands of LPs and packaging hundreds of pre-orders, with the help of a few kind friends who come over and help me out after work. So please just be patient.
Thanks to everyone for ordering and expect to see them later this month!
VERSE "Aggression" LP pre-orders are up. FREE Digital download with vinyl will be available RIGHT NOW, same day you buy the LP!
Street date is supposedly June 10th, but due to pressing plant being over-booked for the next month, these pre-orders probably won't ship till LATE JUNE. This is an estimate, I don't have an exact ship date like our pre-orders usually do.
Package deal (SOLD OUT NOW - SORRY) contains 2 different colors. Don't worry - you WILL get 2 different colors. You will NOT experience the problem of getting 2 of the same color like some people experienced with Paint It Black pre-orders. This is because there are 3 colors available. If you want to try to get all 3 colors, feel free to add an extra individual LP onto your order. I will most certainly send you all 3 different colors if we have all 3 left at the time you order. But if I do not, I'll send you 2 of the more limited one that is left, and 1 of the other. Don't bitch if the extra one doesn't turn out exactly like you wanted it. The bottom line is that your package deal WILL have 2 different colors.
We haven't done one of these in a couple of years, so I'm going to do a couple rounds of eBay auctions over the next few weeks and months to try to reduce the size of the Rivalry "vault". You'll see some TEST PRESSES and the rarest versions of most of our releases. Please don't bitch about shipping prices - postage, record boxes, tape, gas to/from post office, eBay fees, and paypal fees aren't free. Here's ROUND 1: ebay link.
There's tons more, but here's a preview:
PAINT IT BLACK - New Lexicon LP TEST PRESS /20
GO IT ALONE - Histories 7" Single TEST PRESSS /20
GO IT ALONE / BLUE MONDAY - Split 7" TEST PRESS /24
ALLEGIANCE - Out Of My Blood 7" TEST PRESS /20
ANOTHER BREATH - Mill City LP TEST PRESS /20
- Orders will ship the week of March 3rd.
- Any music purchase (vinyl, CD, digital, whatever) from rivalryrecords.com includes a free digital download with full high-res artwork in a PDF.
- Digital Downloads are not available for download until the street date! (So make sure you save your order confirmation email!!!)
- Street date for PIB and TFS is March 11th (but PIB digi download is available early on Feb 19th to coincide with CD street date). Street date for the 2007 DVD is March 25th.
- There will be two colors of vinyl available from RVL. Each package deal will contain 1 of each color *WHILE SUPPLIES LAST*. Once the more limited color is gone, the package will get 2 of the same color! The package will not be taken off the website when the more limited color runs out as it is very hard to determine when that point is reached. (The reason it's almost impossible to know exactly how many rare copies are available is due to uncertainty about pressing plant over-runs/under-runs (we don't have the records yet!), the number of pre-order versions that the band takes, etc etc.)
- THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. Your order WILL NOT SHIP until the week of March 3rd. Please do not email us asking where your order is until at least April 15th, to allow time for the mail system to deliver your items. (USPS media mail can be unbelievably slow sometimes.)
RIVALRY SHOWCASE 2008
Friday, February 29th and Saturday, March 1st
ALLEGIANCE (Last show ever!)
VERSE
THE FIRST STEP
INTERNAL AFFAIRS
TRASH TALK
RED HANDED
CEREMONY
BETRAYED
KILLING THE DREAM
SOUL CONTROL
ANOTHER BREATH
GET THE MOST
@ 924 Gilman St
Berkeley, CA
Doors at 7:00pm
Show at 8:00pm SHARP
$10 each day
NO PRE-SALE TICKETS. Tickets available at the door only.
We're trying to improve a few things from last year.
1. Doors open early at 7:00pm instead of 8:00pm.
2. We're going to try to walk up and down the line selling the $2 Gilman membership cards for those that don't have a current card. The purchasing of membership cards at the door is what tends to slow things down. Have $2 exact change available to buy a membership card early in the line!
3. We're urging local kids to hit up a Gilman show in February and make sure to buy a new membership card, if needed. Make sure your card is good through March 1, 2007.
GET THERE EARLY, GET IN LINE, and BUY YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARDS ASAP
Want to help us promote this online and at shows? Here's fliers....
We should have the RIVALRY SHOWCASE 2007 DVDs for sale at the 2008 show. It features GO IT ALONE's last Rivalry Showcase performance and all the other sets from 2007 at 924 Gilman St.
We'll be filming the 2008 Showcase for a DVD that will document Allegiance's last show, etc.
