Red Mosquito

coptheriotact wrote:If it were up to me, I would also make 12 variants as they will sell

Lots of TayTay fans don't even own record players, but they buy her vinyl to hang on their walls as collectibles.
The variants are crucial to that first week sales push.

The merch manager should be fired if they forgot to make variants

makes sense

"it's immoral to let a fool keep his money."

Bi_3 wrote:

B wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:If any of my friends on this board buy every single variant, we aren’t friends any more. B, I’m looking at you

Seriously, I bought the 10C variant. It's all I'm getting.

But should I buy a bunch at RSD and sell them to people trying to get them all?

Yes

Ah, it's not random. You gotta buy from specific stores to get the variants.
https://live.umusic.com/pj-indie-variants

This is so fucking dumb

How fucking stupid.

Imagine how much these are going to be selling for online in places like PJ Bay.

i think i said this earlier but this doesnt bother me at all. Some people like to collect shit, and if you don’t this is entirely skippable. no new music or mixes attached to the varients

yep, and most people will only be buying one or two anyway; the variants just mean more choice

I knew the two of you would defend it.

it's the Post-Riot Act Harmless Grab

it doesnt seem like something that should require attack or defense.

Let's collect all of them.

stip wrote:it doesnt seem like something that should require attack or defense.

it's a really weird thing to mount an attack on capitalism around

see if someone wants to complain about the cost of things that are core to fandom (cost of album, ticket prices (though thats more complicated) etc that makes sense. If pearl jam was in any way incentivizing people who would not otherwise be looking to buy something (each variant comes with a bonus song you cant hear otherwise) I get it. But this is a superfluous item whose only purpose is to bring joy to collectors and maybe boost turnout at record stores. So fuck those people because…reasons?

Does anyone think everyone is getting a new car due to all the record variants they are releasing?

People actively look for reasons to get upset about something they ostensibly care about? that can’t be healthy?

and the first egregious example of this in pj history is no code, where in a pre internet age you had to buy multiple copies of an album if you wanted to see the full liner notes

Ms Harmless wrote:

stip wrote:it doesnt seem like something that should require attack or defense.

it's a really weird thing to mount an attack on capitalism around

Don't think anyone is defending or attacking capitalism.

Maybe Ed is:

we've got enough
All of the haves they have not

pretty much the entire point this seems to be to help indie stores.