Three new releases out now! Special bundle price if you buy them all. A lot of people don’t buy from the USA particularly because overseas shipping is very high…well, for just over 20 quid you’re getting an LP, 12″ and 7″, even in the 90s that wouldn’t have been a bad price! So stop whinging and buy some records please!
Been speaking with a few folk recently about pricing and perception/value. I guess even on a subconscious level some people kinda think that if something is cheap then it’s not very good. Well that’s just not true! I price records directly by what they cost to produce, so for example the Lost Breed record was a lot because putting it together took a lot of cash, whilst say a regular CD with no fancy packaging isn’t that expensive to produce. This label is run (I hope) as part of the music underground and it’s a two-way street. If everyone is cool with everyone else things go fine, so I don’t feel the need to price every LP at 17 quid just because everyone else is. Maybe those people spend a lot on studio or packaging costs, or maybe they’re just greedy. I don’t care, nothing to do with me. If I can make enough to get by and put more records out I’m happy, and you should be too!
On another note, I’m aiming to a) get a Bandcamp page sorted so you can listen to every release and b) get a completely new website. Much as my gay wit and reparte brings in thousands of customers worldwide every update (ha!), I can see the advantages to just being able to hear the bloody thing yourself without having to have it described by a witless illiterate mong like myself, typos included. I also know the website is a bit clunky and text-heavy (it was actually done by a currently-pro web designer, honest!), and not having a cart option is a pain in the arse. Personally I like it this way – it’s like the big distro lists I loved to trawl through as a teenager – but I cannae live in the past and with a million labels and records out there all the kids want is convenience. So after 6 years of this thing it might be time to get a new one. Quite where I’m going to get the money and time to do it is absolutely beyond me right now but I HAVE resolved to sort it out.