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Originally Posted by Tokolosh
Interesting that you mention that. I'm planning to get it, but now I gotta make a decision, 'cause I thought there was only one version and it's pretty expensive.
Edit: Where did you find the info, if you don't mind me asking? It's not mentioned on the Important records site.
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Well, there are about a dozen threads about it on the Southern Lord forums.
It's sold out at the source by the way and apparently there were far more pre-orders than records atually pressed... so the decision has been made for you.
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http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
"Finally, we've been getting lots of emails about the forthcoming Boris 12" Vein. And sorry to say we have some bad news. Here's the story in a nutshell:
We pre-ordered 100 copies ages ago. We just discovered that all distributors were shorted and so now we're probably only getting 30 or 40 copies at the most. We already have over 50 special orders/pre-orders. So basically even some of the folks who pre-ordered Vein will end up getting screwed as will anyone who was waiting for us to review it on the list. Not too much we can do about it. We whined and kvetched, but to no avail.
If you must complain, best to either contact IMPORTANT RECORDS, but even their hands were sort of tied as Boris insisted on only making 1500 copies, even knowing that there were 3000 preorders. Or try to contact the band directly. Regardless, of the 1500, 300 of the copies went to the band. 400 were sold on the Important website in about 5 minutes. Which means somehow 800 copies have to be spread out over 3000 preorders worldwide. And the retail is a whopping $36!! For what is essentially an ep. So that's the story. We tried, but there was really nothing we could do. So a handful of lucky folks will get their copy of Vein. It's off to the dreaded eBay for everybody else..."
supposedly this is from the guy from Important Records (found this copy-pasted on the SL forum)
"Yes, Boris wanted Vein to be two records. One was limited to 400 and 100 of them went to Boris.. a bunch to European mailorder and some to Cargo. I wanted to split them up US/Europe thinking that it would take people a long time to figure it out... the last thing I wanted to do was deal with this nightmare right after the record came out, but I forgot about a little thing called "the internet" where people from around the world communicate on message boards. As soon as the first mp3 was posted everyone figured it out.
The version of Vein that is in the states is 12 tracks of drony hardcore. The noise record is two tracks and the first side is heavy guitar drone/feedback and the b-side has some hardcore drumming and vocals totally smothered in noise.
Good ol' Boris."