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I was in charge.

That sounds a good idea actually, I'll have an ask and see what I can do... I'm dealing with the distro however, so it may not be possible. I can certainly request that no more are pressed though, at the least.

This is just fucking stupid now. This is gonna be my last post in this thread.

I'm just gonna give you a comparison between the current situation, and what would have happened had we pressed it ourselves.

Ourselves:
Pay for pressing, mastering, labels etc
Try and get it into some small webstores, most likely try and shift them all ourselves.
Hopefully recoup money - most likely not.

Current situation:
Don't have to pay for production of the records
Backed by a distro and therefore in some major shops.
Get free copies of the record. No financial risk.

Regardless of the fact they pressed it without our permission (which is irrelevant as their eagerness to communicate with us and willingness to co-operate means we endorse the pressing) we currently have a better deal than we would have done anyway.
I'm pretty sure if you took anybody's free release, pressed it for free, got in major shops and gave them a profit from it (in our case, records (the remainder of the distro's stock)) they'd be fairly chuffed.

Anyway. I've said my piece (several times over). Go buy the comp if you like because we're happy with it being sold.

Haters gonna hate.

It's $12 in the US stores, and comes from a US distro. Guess the price over here goes up with shipping and all that bollocks.

This is an email that Chuck, a guy at the distro with whom I've established a correspondence. This is his reply to me asking what the profits are for this.

I suppose the shops take a lot of profit through record sales?

And you would have us do what, exactly?
Bleed them dry for all their remaining copies? Oh wait, that's what they themselves suggested we do!
Stop the shops stocking them? Whooops, I forgot that getting the sort of exposure possible from being stocked in the single most important indie record store in the UK is bad!

We have been offered exactly what we would have received, had this been "officially endorsed". Pulling it from shops would be being a dick to the distros and shops, and take away any exposure for us.

Being a bootleg pressing, we can't find the person who pressed it (though the distro have taken on the responsibility for the repercussions), and similarly we can't stop this happening again. Then again, NOBODY can stop this happening to any release. The comp was small and thrown together for fun. It's not anybody's lifes work (if it was an album I had worked on for years then I would be considerably more angry). We have reached an agreement in the most mature manner possible, without any ridiculous knee-jerk reactions.

This situation is sorted.

I have an R4, and so I first used LSDJ on my DS, which was alright. Once I'd got a couple songs done on it, I knew that I wanted to properly use it and ordered an EMS 64m cart.
And over a year later I'm using the same cart and have never had any problem. I'd really highly recommend them.

Don't be put off by the complexity of LSDJ by the way. It's all just about getting used to it, it's actually really nice to use ^^

Hmm, I feel an awesome chip-scene hate campaign coming...
We got TV Death Squad's gigs cancelled, YouTube removed and MySpace shut down within 24 hours... Time for round 2? >:D

(I say we, but I literally did nothing. haha)

Also, I've never seen anyone else called TraceKaiser - I make music under my real name (Euan Lynn) anyway, which is fairly uncommon. So no troubles

I think my school has a couple of them. Once we get the sole Mac at school up and running for recording in the studio..