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The Shipping News
July 2024
Most the time I send parcels through the local Post Office, and occasionally I use Royal Mail’s online/collection service. In their unquestionable wisdom the Royal Mail have given their online service cheaper postage prices than the Post Office, but, the next day collection adds another 48 hours to the whole process. Generally, 80% of the time, I prefer to keep things speedy and use the local Post Office. It gets me out of the house, too.
Both options, online and Post office, as of July 2024, include a third postage rate for inland first and second class parcels/large letters: With Tracking.
I haven’t changed my checkout/postage set-up, the options remains the same, either Standard or Signed For. I’m going to leave it that way for the time being. Setting up the store’s checkout system with the correct postage rates is a sodding nightmare (anyone who has tried selling on Discogs will know what I mean). Royal Mail don’t help matters by constantly changing their services and price rates.
And so, as a general guideline, for the time being, I will send all orders with a value of £15 or more via the new With Tracking postage rate, and at no extra charge to yourselves.
Does it make a difference to you? No, not really. From what I can gather so far, this new Tracking rate offers-up a bit more information on a parcel’s journey from me to you, (that’s if you can be arsed to type in the number on the Royal Mail’s online tracking site, they don’t make it easy). And it offers a better compensation rate for missing /damaged parcels – up to £150, compared to the Standard rate of around £20.
You don’t have to do anything different at checkout. But, on the rare off-chance that something goes wrong with your parcel – delay, damage, whatever – you now have better recall/back-up. This is all worth knowing, because you might now hesitate before paying extra for the Signed For option (which is still a worthwhile service if your local postal delivery service is a bit unreliable/unpredictable).
The same as before, if there are any issues with your order, get in touch with me and I’ll sort it out straight away. Things very rarely go wrong, and if they do, they always get resolved, no matter which postage rate you opt for.
My old policy on larger orders still applies: for an order with a value over £100 choose the cheapest second class option at checkout, and I will then pay the extra and send it First Class Signed For. And if it’s over £150 I will use Special Delivery (it costs over £17, but has really good insurance, and is guaranteed next day delivery before 1pm).
Does any of this make any sense? No? Oh well… don’t worry about it… as you were
Current in-house playlist:
Gouge Away, Candy Apple, Bacchae, Bossk, Home Invasion, Gimic, Yambag, Black Tusk, Irked, Hellscape, Speed
New Arrivals:
Tuesday 23rd July 2024
New Releases:
Against All Authority “24 Hour Roadside Resistance” repress LP (Hopeless)
Body Farm / Dry Socket “Body//Socket (Split)” LP
Candy Apple “Comatose” LP (Convulse)
Caveman “Something’s Got To Give” 7″ sold out
Conservative Military Image “No Squares In Our Circle” 12″ (Triple B)
Farside “Rochambeau” repress LP (Rev)
Firewalker “Hell Bent” LP (Triple B) sold out
Have Heart “Songs To Scream At The Sun” repress LP (Bridge 9) sold out
Have Heart “The Things We Carry” repress LP (Bridge 9)
Juice “Festival Of Fools” LP (War) sold out
Missing Link “Watch Me Bleed” LP (Triple B) sold out
No Way Out “Better You Than Me” 7″ (Triple B) sold out
Paranoid “S.C.U.M.” 12″ (Beach Impediment)
Peace Decay “s/t” LP (Beach Impediment) sold out
Pillsbury Hardcore “Eighty Sixed” LP
Poison Idea “We Must Burn” Double LP (TKO) sold out
Praise “Coming Up For Air 7” (Rev)
School Drugs “Disposition” 7″ (Indecision) sold out
Shudder To Think “1987” LP (L.G.) sold out
Spaced “Spaced Jams” LP (New Morality Zine)
Speed “Only One Mode” LP (Flatspot)
Time Heist “With Every Passing Moment” LP (Indecision)
Undertow “At Both Ends” LP Splatter (Indecision)
Undertow “At Both Ends” LP Pink (Indecision)
Unwound “A Single History 1991-2001” repress (Numero Group)
Restocks:
7 Seconds “The Crew: Deluxe Edition” LP
7 Seconds “Walk Together Rock Together” LP
Adrenalin O.D. “Humungousfungusamongus: Millenium Edition” LP
Adrenalin O.D. “The Wacky Hi-Jinks Of…” LP
Alkaline Trio self-titled LP (Asian Man)
Angel Du$t “Rock The Fuck On Forever” LP
Bent Blue/Sunstroke “Split” 7″ (War)
Big Boys “No Matter How Long The Line Is At The Cafeteria, Theres Always A Seat!” LP
Big Boys “Where’s My Towel/Industry Standard” LP
Body Farm “Living Hell” 12″
Buggin “Brainfreeze b/w Gratitude” 7″ Flexi (Flatspot)
Burn self-titled 7″ (Rev)
By The Grace Of God “For The Love Of Indie Rock” LP
Canal Irreal “Someone Else’s Dance” LP (Beach Impediment)
Christian Death “Only Theatre Of Pain” LP
Circle Jerks “Group Sex: 40th Anniversary Edition” LP
City Of Caterpillar self-titled LP
Crucifix “Dehumanization” LP
Dicks “Kill From The Heart” LP (repress (Superior Viaduct)
Die Kreuzen “Cows And Beer” 7″
Discordance Axis “JouHou” Double LP sold out
Disfear “Everyday Slaughter” LP
Earth Crisis “Breed The Killers: 25th Anniversary Edition” LP
End Of Dayz “Searching For A Way Out” LP (Creator-Destructor)
Engine Kid “Angel Wings / Special Olympics” Double LP and 7″
English Dogs “Mad Punx & English Dogs” LP
Gang Green “Skate To Hell b/w Alcohol” 7″
Gang Green “Sold Out b/w Terrorize” 7″
Gel “Only Constant” LP (Convulse)
Gorilla Biscuits self-titled 7″ (Rev)
Gorilla Biscuits “Start Today” cassette (Rev)
Gorilla Biscuits “Start Today” LP (Rev)
Gorilla Biscuits “Start Today” Large Short Sleeve T-Shirt (Rev)
Gumm “Slogan Machine” LP (Convulse)
Have Heart “10.17.09: Silver Anniversary Edition” LP (Bridge 9)
Husker Du “Flip Your Wig” LP
Husker Du “New Day Rising” LP
Ignite “Call On My Brothers” LP (Rev)
Incendiary / Unrestrained “Split” 7″
Jawbreaker “24 Hour Revenge Therapy” LP
Jawbreaker “Bivouac” LP sold out
Jawbreaker “Unfun: 20th Anniversary Edition” LP sold out
Last Rights “Chunks b/w So Ends Our Night” 7″
Home Invasion “Enemy” LP (War)
Leeway “Born To Expire” LP
Lincoln “Repair And Reward” LP
Major Conflict “NYHC 1983” LP
The Marked Men “Fix My Brain” LP
Mindforce “Excalibur” LP (Triple B) sold out
Mindforce “New Lords” LP (Triple B) sold out
Minutemen “3-Way Tie (For Last)” LP
Minutemen “Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat” Mini-LP
Minutemen “Project: Mersh” 12″
Minutemen “The Punch Line” LP sold out
Minutemen “What Makes A Man Start Fires” LP
Most Precious Blood “Demo” 7″
MS Paint “Post-American” LP (Convulse)
Night Verses “From The Gallery Of Sleep” Double LP
No For An Answer “You Laugh” 7″
No Warning “Ill Blood: Silver Anniversary Edition” LP (Bridge 9)
No Warning self-titled 7″
Offenders “Endless Struggle: Millennium Edition” LP
Ozone “Shutting You Down” 7″ (New Morality Zine)
Physique “Overcome By Pain” 7″ (Iron Lung) sold out
Poison Idea “Record Collectors Are Still Pretentious Assholes” LP (TKO)
Public Acid “Deadly Struggle” LP (Beach Impediment)
Repulsion “Horrified” LP
Sense Field “Killed For Less” LP (rev)
Sexpill “In Dust We Trust” LP (Beach Impediment)
Sick Of It All “Call To Arms” LP
Sick Of It All “Wake The Sleeping Dragon!” LP
Slipknot self-titled 7″ (Rev)
Sonic Youth “Daydream Nation” Double LP
Soul Blind “Greatest Hits Vol. 1″ 7”
Speed “Gang Called Speed” 12″
Stimulators “LOUD Fast Rules!” 7″
Suicidal Tendencies self-titled LP
Sunami self-titled LP (Triple B)
Torso “Home Wrecked” 7″ (Rev)
Universal Order Of Armageddon s/t double LP (Numero Group)
World I Hate “Years Of Lead” LP (War)
Youth Of Today self-titled 7″ (Rev)
Zouo “Agony Remains” LP
Various “New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is” LP (Rev)
Friday 12th July
Irked 12″ EP (Wrong Speed) sold out
Wednesday 10th July
Books, new additions and restocks:
“To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish”
“Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA. 1975-1983″
“Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic”
“Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” Naomi Klein
“Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth About Reality”
“Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation”
“Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent “
“Time for Magic: A Shamanarchist’s Guide to the Wheel of the Year” Jamie Reid
“Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth”
“Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground” sold out
“Jolly Lad” John Doran
“Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond” Geezer Butler
“NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories”
“Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding”
“More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk”
“Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk” Kathleen Hanna
“From Punk to Monk: A Memoir” Ray Cappo
Waiting
Anklebiter / Prevention – split 7″ (Sunday Drive)
Siege Fire “The Devastating Cost” LP (Black Water)
Alarm! self-titled LP (Armageddon)
Candy “It’s Inside You” LP (Relapse)
Yambag “Mindfuck Ultra” LP (Convulse)
Raein “A Collection Of Splits and EPs 2004 – 2015” LP (Persistent Vision)
Raein “Il N’y A Pas De Orchestre” LP repress (Persistent Vision)
Sonagi “Everything IS Longing” 7″ (Secret Vision)
Drought self-titled 7″ EP (Iodine)
State Faults “Children Of The Moon” double LP (Deathwish)
Avskum “Crucified By The System” 7″ repress (Prank)
SSD “Get It Away” LP repress (Trust)
Nails “Every Bridge Burning” LP (Nuclear Blast)
