Thrice Test Pressing Contest!

Uh huh, you read that right. Talked to Cobraside today and asked if we could get a test pressing to give out if we secure a few more copies of Beggars and they said yes! So, one lucky person will receive this very limited goodie from all the people that pre-order from here! Entries in the drawing are one per Beggars purchased, so if you ever needed to take advantage of friends or buy everyone the same Christmas present, now is the time! 🙂

Record is dated for December 15th, test pressing will be ready to give out whenever we get it or when the record comes out, whichever comes first!

More info on the vinyl version of Beggars and how to order, click below!

Thrice – Beggers

PO: Mustard Plug – Big Daddy Multitude (LP + 7″) on clear vinyl – exclusive to Nerd Alert Records!

Mustard Plug – Big Daddy Multitude (LP + 7″ – Clear)

I’ve been waiting months and months to finally spill the beans on our next exclusive and I was finally given the thumbs up just a few minutes ago.

The classic ska-punk album, Big Daddy Multitude, by scene vets Mustard Plug will finally be given the necessary vinyl treatment by the end of the year, courtsey of Asbestos Records. Quite awhile ago, I found Asbestos head Flood had posted a message on the VC message board looking to sell of some records to help pay for some upcoming projects he had coming down the pipe. I sent him a private message, asking him if he’d be interested in doing an exclusive color for us and we’d pay him ahead of time to help him foot the bill. He replied right back with a yes, so we’ve been waiting quietly ever since, just dying to put this up!

Now the day has come! There will be 4 colors of vinyl for this release, and the breakdown is as follows:

Yellow (/500), Black (/100), Clear (/100) and one unknown color.

Everyone who pre-orders from us will be entered into a contest to win 1 test pressing set for this release (which means you’ll get a test pressing of both the LP & 7″).

Nerd Alert Records & Limited Edition Vinyl Team Up!

I stumbled across vinyl blog Limited Edition Vinyl like you do a quarter in a parking lot – completely by accident but god damn are you happy you just happened to be in the right place at the right time. LEV contains detailed, thoughtful posts on upcoming records without all the poor grammer, lack of or over use of punctuation and other things taught in elementry school that bloggers like to throw out and ignore. Very pleasing to the reading palette.

I emailed Joel and we set up two contests with them for our exclusive colors, with the first one running now for our Sound The Alarm on red. You can enter to win one right…here! Next week, our contest to win a free copy of our Pink Lincolns exclusive should appear as well.

Its not very often a blog satisfies my need for vinyl news and respect for the English langauge, so please, please, please visit Joel’s blog and add him to your bookmarks. That’s what, like three clicks, four? We both know you have the time, just do it. ;P

Winners of our grand opening contest!

So we finally drew the winners for our super large grand opening contest we were holding with DeadFormat.net. Here are the winners (all peeps have been contacted and prizes will start going out most likely tomorrow):

1. Arielle K. LCD soundsystem autographed CD
2. Mathew S. DeadFormat Prize
3. Steveooo The Queers – Everything’s Okay 7″ – autographed by Joe Queer
4. Benjamin S. No Idea Records ‘Party Pack’
5. Jens Few and the Proud LP test pressing
6. Dusty $25 gift certificate to NerdAlertRecords.com
7. Daniel A. Shot Baker – Awake LP test pressing
8. mtnasleep $50 gift certificate to NerdAlertRecords.com
9. Greg S. DeadFormat Prize
10. Graig S. DeadFormat Prize
11. scotty DeadFormat Prize
12. cjohnnick $25 gift certificate to NerdAlertRecords.com
13. headtowall Atmosphere – Shoulda Known 12″ promo single
14. fattyswimmer DeadFormat Prize
15. lattersam James Pants – We’re Through promo single
16. marijnnn DJ Romes – Rhythm Traxx 12″ test pressing
17. deathtripper DeadFormat Prize
18. Matt K. DeadFormat Prize
19. zak138 Moral Crux – Moral Crux autographed test pressing
20. tarik The Queers – Everything’s Okay 7″ – autographed by Joe Queer

(Name = winner via store entry; User = winner via DF entry)

Sound The Alarm Shipping To Us Tomorrow!

Talked to Cobraside today and our Saves The Day – Sound The Alarm exclusive will be shipping out tomorrow! Which means we should have them Friday-Saturday and orders should start shipping on Monday! 🙂 Our color has also been revealed – red. An unnamed retailer (they didn’t tell me but my guess is the wonderful peeps at Vinyl Collective) will be receiving white (I assume out of 300 as well), of which we will be swapping 5 of ours for 5 of theirs so we can offer a few sets of both colors.

Talked to Zac from Alaska Records over the weekend and we are about to get those Benard / Worn In Red splits on their way to us in the next couple of days.

Bonnie and I will be moving into our first house (well, one that will be occupied only by us) in a couple weeks, but the prepartion of said house is really going to cut into our store time, so updates may be few and far between during that time. Shipping of orders WILL NOT be effected by this. 🙂 Our new house has a huge area for us to run the store out of, which is going to be so amazing. I can’t wait for that aspect alone. Maybe we’ll even arrange an open house for the store, where peeps can come by, shop, rock out, maybe even take a jaunt into the game room and play some Smash Bros. 🙂

We also found out the sex of our soon-to-be baby today! I cannot say what it is yet because it seems we didn’t do a very good job of advertising the ‘guess the sex’ contest, so we will be sending out an email mailer to everyone who has ordered something from us so they for sure know about the contest and can enter if they want. We should get that around tomorrow, then hopefully draw a winner by next week.

Okay, my back hurts and my allergies are going insane from cleaning a dusty, dirty house for the past few hours, so I’m out!

Exclusive Saves The Day – Sound The Alarm color!

I’ll go more in-depth later, as ice cream and Monopoly are currently in need of my attention, but we just put up the preorder for our exclusive color for next week’s Saves The Day – Sound The Alarm reissue. Out of the 3,000 total copies to be pressed, we will have a 300 run color that can only be purchased from us! ALSO – we are getting a test pressing to give out as well – so anyone who orders that record from us will be entered in a random drawing to get that!

Okay, here’s the link, buy away please! 😉

Saves The Day – Sound The Alarm (Exclusive Color)

Yawn.

So, today is a lazy Monday, there’s just no way around it, heh. We had a doctor’s appointment today, just a general checkup on the baby and Bonnie. All continues to be well on that front. Everytime we get to hear the baby’s heartbeat is just amazing!

When we got home, we took care of the mail and then just lost all interest in anything else work-related. It happens, heh. If you placed an order over the weekend and didn’t get a shipping confirmation today its because we are waiting for Fedex to drop off our latest Cobraside order, which they should do tonight or tomorrow. Once they do, your orders will go out! 🙂

I just found out hanging out on the VC message board, which I’ve been doing every day for about 8 months now, that we appear to be one of the very last retailers to still have the colored Recess Records reissue of Screeching Weasel’s Boogadax3 in-stock! We also have colored copies of Recess’s Queers – Love Songs… and Off With Their Heads – Hospitals as well! Get them while you can!

I also forgot to mention that we will be giving away test pressings – 3 each – with each of our Jailhouse Records exclusive colors! We will randomly pick 3 people from the preorders for each of the records and send them a test pressing with their order! You can place your orders for those here and here.

Okay, time to go kill time until MGS4 comes out tonight at midnight! 😉

Busy day!

Woo boy we had a ton of shit going on today, hence no stock update today. We spent the day getting mail ready to go out, filming the video below that decided who got the signed Crimson record and then going to my aunt’s 50th birthday dinner. We got all of the U.S. packages out today (though I think we missed the outgoing pickup so they’ll actually be going tomorrow morning), but we weren’t able to get the international packages out, so they are on the top of our to-do list tomorrow.

We’ve got some stuff coming in the next few days from one of our distros, which should be up for preorder in the coming days, including the new Radiohead ‘Best Of’ boxset, the new Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright and Metallica’s recent 2xLP reissue of Ride the Lightning. Going out tomorrow is a box with some older stuff we dug up from the bowels of the same distro, including ALL’s Problematic, Ben Folds’ Song For Silverman, Saves The Day’s Stay What You Are and some more Radiohead stuff. We’ve also got in-transit the new Atmosphere 12″ (we also have their new record on limited yellow that we need to get live STAT) and the new repress of a record I love and Bonnie just HATES, The Coup’s Epitaph debut, Pick A Bigger Weapon.

Draft fans – be on the lookout tomorrow as we will be posting a very limited color of In A Million Pieces up for regular price, so check this page quite often as I know it will be gone oh so very quickly!

Monday update!

Today Bonnie and I were supposed meet up with my mom and grandma to visit in the morning then off to have eye exams so we could get new glasses, but instead slept in, canceled the appointments and just hung with my family, went to the mall and now we are home. We had originally just went to the mall so Bonnie could get a decaf coffee but then I went to Gamestop, where I proceeded to purchase GTA IV for 360 (gave in, heh) and a 2,000 Point Wii Card so we could download Dr. Mario Online. 🙂

We have one spot left in the signed Crimson giveaway, so if you want a 1 and 4 chance to get a copy with a jacket signed (and doodled on) by Matt Skiba, you best get gettin’! I thought of the best way to decide who gets the record, so once we get that final one sold or it becomes tomorrow, I can get to work on that.

Also worth noting – we have passed the 100 mark for labels we currently have records for sale for! Sure, that’s probably not a big deal to most people, but that’s a big deal to us! 🙂

Alright, time to get to work! Here are links to the new stock that went up today (more to come throughout the day!):

Onion Flavored Rings – Perfect Evolution

Operation Latte Thunder / Are You Fucking Serious – Split

Pinhead Gunpowder – Goodbye Ellston Avenue

Pink Razors – First Degree (1st Pressing – Black)

Planes Mistaken For Stars – Mercy (Light Gray/Purple)

Playing Favorites, The – I Remember When I Was Pretty (Blue/P)

Playing Favorites, The – I Remember When I Was Pretty (Blue/W)

Portugal The Man – Church Mouth (Blue)

Portugal The Man – Church Mouth (Chocolate)

Portugal The Man – Church Mouth (Plum)

Portugal The Man – Church Mouth (Raspberry)

Propagandhi – Potemkin City Limits (2xLP – Canada)

Prozacs, The – Odds N’ Ends

Prozacs, The/Guts, The – Split

Queers, The – Beyond The Valley…

Queers, The – Punk Rock Confidential

Queers, The – Suck This (Black)

Queers, The – Everything’s OK

Radon – Metric Buttloads Of Rock (Blue)

Ragan, Chuck – Feast Or Famine (Gray/Purple Mix)

Contests – Who Doesn’t Enjoy Free Shit?

Contests, contests! Let’s get this shit out!

Contest #1:

This is our big grand opening contest. Basically, for every record you purchase between May 26th and June 26th will grant you a raffle ticket in our contest. If you don’t want to buy something but still want free shit, DeadFormat.net users are all getting a free entry! At the moment, the prize list looks like this (there will be more additions):

*No Idea Records ‘Party Pack’ (a mystery box from No Idea Records)
*Moral Crux – Moral Crux autographed test pressing from the upcoming reissue (from Jailhouse Records)
*The Queers – Everything’s Okay 7″ – autographed by Joe Queer (from Jailhouse Records) x2
*Atmosphere – Shoulda Known 12″ promo single (from Fat Beats Distribution)
*DJ Romes – Rhythm Traxx 12″ test pressing (from Fat Beats Distribution)
*James Pants – We’re Through promo single (from Fat Beats Distribution)
*Shot Baker – Awake LP test pressing (from Underground Communique)
*Few and the Proud LP test pressing (from Underground Communique)
*Stickers, buttons, 5 DeadFormat slipmats (including a couple of the first “run” that are hand-numbered) and 6 DeadFormat t-shirts (from DeadFormat.net)
*$50 gift certificate to NerdAlertRecords.com
*$25 gift certificate to NerdAlertRecords.com x2

Contest #2:

We are having a contest exclusive to our customers. My wonderful wife, and co-owner of this establishment, Bonnie, is preggers. We will be finding out the sex of the baby in a few weeks. If you guess the sex and throw us a possible name into the comments of your order, you will be entered in a contest to receive a free LP of your choice ($16.99 and under) for each month that baby is still kicking around inside. Only entries that guess the right sex will qualify for the drawing, and you can enter once per order per day.

If you make an order and forget to comment, just reply to the email you receive when you complete your order with your entry. 🙂

Though not a contest, remember that until further notice – ALL ORDERS RECEIVE A FREE 7″ RECORD! You don’t have to do a thing but place an order! 🙂