Devotion orders have shipped! Media mail can be slow sometimes, especially with this week's Thanksgiving holiday, so be patient. Thanks for the orders!
Devotion - Bastard Son Of Affluence Blues LPs are finally in, after a few printing errors with the covers/inserts. Mark and I are going to start putting the LPs together this weekend, and hopefully they will all be mailed out sometime next week (the week of Nov 16th). I'm pretty happy about this... Even with all of the printing errors we endured - we are only 1 week late (originally slated to ship the week of Nov 10th). FYI - Revelation will not be releasing/shipping the LPs to stores until Dec 1st, so it'll be after that before they start popping up in stores and distros.
NOTE: The CDs are still NOT in yet, so if you ordered a CD, your order won't be shipping for another week or two!
If you've already bought the LP and want to get your digital download NOW, you can! Just enter the order number you received in your order confirmation email when you purchased the record. If you don't have your order number, contact us.
I'm selling some of my personal collection on eBay. Tons of test pressings and rare versions from DEATHWISH and RIVALRY, plus all kinds of stuff from the mid 90's through 2009. Over 200 items in total! Check it: eBay Auctions.
Devotion is the latest musical project from Mark Palm, the creative mind behind Go It Alone. This project finds Palm moving even further in the direction that was becoming evident in the final Go It Alone recordings: slow, dark, rock oriented hardcore. In the fall of 2008 a ten song LP entitled Bastard Son Of Affluence Blues was recorded with Jesse Gander at The Hive Creative Labs in Burnaby, British Columbia. In addition to Palm’s vocals and guitar playing, drum and percussion performances were handled by Aaron O’Neil of ON. Drawing influence from hardcore, rock, and beyond, Bastard Son Of Affluence Blues is a forty minute monolith of heavy, yet tuneful, hard volume. LP on Rivalry, CD self-released by the band (but Rivalry does have copies of the CD available for sale in the webstore). The CD is an enhanced CD-ROM with a music video for the title track on the album. LPs are all on black vinyl.
There has been a ton going on with this project, and it's been fun to watch it all come together. Many talented people have been involved and I'm thankful to all of them for lending their efforts. Check out a video interview put together by John Jenkins-Stark and Clark Todd of Eightclip Media (http://www.eightclipmedia.com), as well as a music video filmed by Amir Aghelnejad (http://www.amiraghelnejad.com).
IMPORTANT ORDERING INFO:
- LPs are all on black vinyl, no limited vinyl pressed.
- Will not ship until a week or so before street date.
- International orders: you must order 2 items on the webstore (posters do not count). If you don't want to do that, just order 1 item and then email me at mailorder@rivalryrecords.com telling me where you live. I will reply and ask you to paypal me an additional shipping amount based on where you live. Sorry, our webstore sucks and doesn't use weight+address based shipping - instead the shipping is built into each item's price.
- Online digital downloads ARE included with purchase, but will not be available until street date. To download you must SAVE YOUR ORDER CONFIRMATION NUMBER, and return to the Rivalry website on November 10th to download. Paper coupons are NOT included with the LPs themselves, so you must save your confirmation email. Download includes a quicktime copy of the music video.
- Per the band's request, there will not be iTunes or digital downloads for SALE. The only digital downloads will be available with a purchase of the physical release.
50% off every thing in the webstore - shirts, hoodies, cds, vinyl, everything.
Also -- I put up some rarities in the "distro" section of the store that are out of my personal collection. These items are not 50% off. I tried to list them below eBay prices. This will save all of us a lot of eBay hassle... For example:
I have a few copies left in my personal collection of the GIA Histories LP on RED VINYL - FRIENDS PRESS /100 (guess I don't have very many friends). Don't bitch about the price -- they sell on eBay for $30+, so I'm offering it here at $25 plus $4 for postage ($29ppd in the U.S.).
RIVALRY RECORDS Holiday Sale - 30% off EVERYTHING now through December 18th
- I ran a quick coupon through the system and marked EVERY SINGLE THING 30% off. The price you see in the store already has the 30% off built into it.
- All prices DO INCLUDE SHIPPING!!!
- The small "shipping" charge of $.50-$2.00 on checkout is just to cover paypal fees and is purely based on the amount of your order.
- Sale runs until December 18th. I will do my best to ship things ASAP so you get them by christmas.
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.
