Limited Pressing

So with bandcamp getting ready to drop a 15% bomb on the independent music world we decided to add a bunch of features to our digital system. Let’s take a look at what we’re capable of now. 

Obviously we have no transaction fees. We’ve always had that, and we’ll never change. But now instead of just having the $20 for 1000 downloaders plan, we decided to add another plan which is $10 for 400 downloaders. This will give people, that are just selling their digital version, a cheaper way to do so. The 1000 download plan is still really good for download code cards to be put into actual releases. And obviously if you think you’re going to sell a ton digital copies, it gives you a small discount over the $10 plan.

Speaking of download cards. Here’s another very cool feature we decided to add. Now we have a PDF card creator in place so you don’t have to do any layout. Just go into the code manager, ask for an amount of cards,  then click the print link, BOOM! The cards are created automatically using the product name, store name, and includes a unique code with url. So incredibly easy. We’re really proud of that. The amount of money I see people charging to print and ship download cards is completely ridiculous. You have a printer, you have a mouse, you can make download cards for free.

And the last big feature I’d like to talk about is the name your own price feature. I know a lot of independent bands love selling their digital music this way. Put in a minimum and let the customer decide what to pay, or just give the music away for free. It’s really up to you. 

Here’s a link to our new Digital feature page http://limitedpressing.com/digital

Thanks a lot and if you have any questions at all, you know where to reach us….at our desks! support at limitedpressing.com 

As many of you might know, Limited Pressing is based out of New York. Specifically Long Island NY. Our love for hardcore and punk started with LI bands like Silent Majority, Motive, and Neglect. And it continues with bands like Iron Chic, Sister Kisser, Ice Age, and so many more. So we decided to help out and do our part by starting a small label that will only release records from bands based out of LI. We won’t do many releases, and we’ll probably only be doing splits with other labels to help them out with notice and what not, BUT WE’RE OUT THERE JERRY! AND WE’RE LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!

SO HERE WE GO, OUR FIRST RELEASE!

EXPLOSIVO! “If The Devil Had a Guitar” 

Split release with the DIY famous Dead Broke Records. Mike Bruno, who owns and operates this label, is really an incredible guy. He’s like a do it yourself machine. He just keeps releasing records and tapes and does so much of his own custom art work for the releases. I’ve been collecting records from his label for a while now and he always been one of the nicest guys to me. When we heard he wanted to release this album, I begged him to let us help out. 

Explosivo! recorded this album almost 10 years ago and it got buried. People passed it around across the US on tape and cdr, but it never got an official release. They ended up disbanding and the members went on to start and play in The Devil Himself, Iron Chic, and Small Arms Dealer. I think when you hear the album, and realize that it’s been sitting around collecting dust for 10 years, you’ll be blown away. Way ahead of it’s time. We’re so proud to be a part of this release cause it’s exactly the type of thing we love doing. Spreading the word about music that most have never heard before. 

In honor of our first release we’ve put up a full stream of the album on the Limited Pressing homepage. Also Mike at Dead Broke started a Kickstarter to support the release, and needless to say, it’s going well!

If you have any questions at all please drop us an email support at limitedpressing.com

Thanks a lot everyone!

LP

“21st Century in the Brain, 20th Century in the Heart” 

What a month it’s been! We(Tom) have been slaving away at this update for what seems like forever. But it’s done, and it’s out there. 

As you can see by this list, we’ve really been concentrating on making the store owner’s life easier. Meaning its not so much a list of new features, but more of a list of improvements on already existing features. Finding and managing information was our goal here. We wanted the store owner to spend less time inside their store, and more time promoting it. I think one of the best things about us is we have day jobs. We know what it’s like not to have any spare time. You want to know what’s been ordered, and where it’s going. Simple, straight forward, information.

Take a look at this update list and if you have any questions, please email Support at Limitedpressing.com 

• Dedicated Store Management Area
  • Brand New Dashboard at /admin (more updates soon)
    • Important Announcements from LP (new features, updates, etc.)
    • Recent Orders
    • Recently Updated Products
  • Navigate Across Areas (while staying in management mode)

• Redesigned Single Order Page
  • All relevant details (status, paypal transactions, shipping, etc.)

• Brand new Printable Order View
  • Prints Cleanly
  • Perfect as a Packing Slip
  • Available from the Order Manager (opens new window)
  • Available from the Single Order Page (opens new window)

• Brand new Order Manager
  • Informative, glanceable interface
    • Line Items displayed under each Order
    • Payment Status
    • Shipped Status (date on hover)
    • Customer Name (shipping address on hover)
    • Link to Print View (new window)
  • Search by:
    • PayPal Email Address
    • PayPal Transaction Number
    • Customer Information
    • Product Name
    • Product Variation
  • Filter by:
    • All, Open, Closed
    • Date Range
  • Ability to mark an order as shipped
    • Set a specific ship date
    • Optionally add the shipping method
    • Optionally add the tracking number
    • Optionally notify the customer that the order was shipped
    • Available from the Order Manager (doesn’t require a full page reload)
    • Available from the Single Order Page

• Cleaned up Product Forms (complete redesign soon)

• Brand new Product Manager
  • Search by Product or Product Variation Name
  • Informative, glanceable interface
    • Variations displayed under each Product
    • Status for each Product & Variation (available, sold out, not listed, etc)
    • Amount sold and amount in stock for Product & Variations
  • New alphabetical sort option for Products
  • Product Manager now paginates (separate layout/reorder mode)

• Product Lists
  • Product descriptions are now shown when in list view
  • Prices are now shown in gallery view
  • If all Product Variations have the same price, a range isn’t shown
  • ‘Out of Stock’ is shown in place of the price range where applicable

• Split settings and customization into separate pages

Thanks for all the support. We appreciate it!

LP

p.s. glanceable is now a word. We invented it.

Limitedpressing.com, the inventor of words. 

It has pained me for weeks now not to say anything on twitter, tumblr or facebook, but I can finally spill the beans. We’ve spent the last month or so building a new community store for Vinyl Collective and it just launched today. It’s going to be free for the foreseeable future while we dream up sick new features, get feedback, and promote it. Listing is very easy, and buying is even easier. We’ve actually developed a pretty slick check out process that we’re going to use on LP very soon. Here’s a few links:

Store Link

Vinyl Collective Marketplace Full Story 

If anyone has any questions please feel free to get in contact with us

support AT limitedpressing DOT com

The Dingees - The Crucial Conspiracy was originally released in 2001 on Tooth and Nail…which is weird cause back then I thought they were a Christian Hardcore label. And The Dingees are like a ska-reggae type band that I didn’t think was at all Christian. But either way, the album recently got pressed on vinyl by Open Water Records. And because Zac, owner of OWR, is such a great dude, he sent me a couple of copies. Check it…

They also did a black version which is the heavy pressing. I don’t think it’s 180, but it’s close. It’s a quality pressing for sure. This album is definitely worth a listen. When I heard these guys for the first time, I immediately thought…It’s like if you took The Red Hot Chili Peppers, added more punk, removed the lisp, then slowed it down a bit. If that peaks your interest, you can give them a listen here. I’m pretty down with General Information. Great song.

Last night we pushed some very important changes to our store plans. Below is the list:

1. Right off the bat you can see that we removed yearly pricing. It was getting too complicated to have both available. Now we just do monthly subscription plans.

2. Since we removed yearly pricing we had to create a monthly plan for bands which will be $2.99 a month.

Now the good stuff

3. We added google analytics integration to both the Band store and the Ticket store.

4. And the big one. We changed the Ticket store from 10 products to Unlimited products!!! This is huge and it makes the Ticket store the official flagship store. We’re real happy to offer this.

Some other interesting features we added are a link to all your personal auctions from inside one of your auctions. When inside of an auction, the Marketplace tab goes directly to the auction section, not the store items section. And finally, the store directory is now ordered by store popularity.

Here’s a link to the store section to check out the pricing and the features.

Http://limitedpressing.com/stores

As you may or may not know VC/SH have decided to auction off all their stock that wasn’t sent to Interpunk. From what I hear from Virgil he has a few thousand items he’s going to let go of. All auctions are going to start at .99 and have no reserve. Right now they have about 100 auctions going and we should see more each day for the next few weeks.

Here are some very important links for you to keep an eye on.

Auction Section - http://limitedpressing.com/auctions

Auction Section in plain text - http://limitedpressing.com/auctions/plain

Suburban Home Auctions - http://limitedpressing.com/users/2643/auctions

Suburban Home Auctions in plain text - http://limitedpressing.com/auctions/plain?user_id=2643

I’ll make sure we keep everyone updated as soon as I see any action from the VC/SH team.

Thanks!

We added a bunch of new features to help out with searching, posting, and browsing. 
 

1. Our search function now supports Boolean Searching If you want to nerd out, click that link. 
 

2. Upon the creation of your second auction, the last return policy you used is now preloaded into the new auction.
 

3. After creating a new auction, the flash message that states your auction was created successfully, now includes a link to create another auction

4. Relaunched the http://limitedpressing.com/auctions/plain page. This allows you to browse the auction section in one huge plain text list with links. Very fast, and very helpful when there’s more than a few hundred auctions.

5. There is now a plain auction page for each user’s auctions: http://limitedpressing.com/auctions/plain?user_id={insert-user-id}

For instance http://limitedpressing.com/auctions/plain?user_id=2643

One of the cool things about being involved with Limited Pressing is bands and labels are always sending me cool stuff! Seriously. I get stuff all the time. So I figured it would fun to talk about this stuff. Let you listen to the bands, check out the labels, see what these guys have to offer. 

Let’s start with a great band called Rockfight from SF California. My buddy Josh from Vinyl Vlog put these guys on a compilation giveaway LP was involved in at the Gainesville Fest 8. Turns out Josh was friends with these guys. This was when we were just testing the stores out. So I told Josh that we needed to get these guys a store so they could sell their new full length. After they got set up they sent us a shirt and their full length.

Rockfight’s sound is sort of a cross between the singer of Thieves and Assassins and, I don’t know, how about Uniform Choice…you don’t need a link do you? But yeah they got that youth crew, old school sound. But they also throw you a curve ball with the Duncan Macdougalesq vocals. I’m down with it. I listen to it often. It’s a fast album that’s perfect to get in the mood to work…which is what I’m doing most of the time. I hope a label picks it up for a vinyl release cause this is the type of album that should be on a record. Old school style always feels right on vinyl. Below is a link to their store. Check’em out if you get a chance.

Rockfight’s Store

Today we added another currency to our Multiple Currency System. If you haven’t guessed yet, it’s the Australian Dollar. Now what’s weird about the Australian Dollar is the symbol is $. I mean when you think of the $ symbol you think of the U.S. and Canada, but not Australia. They’re 15,000 miles away, but I guess they’re closer than I thought….