Hello. 50% of the mailorder is out now. There will be a slight delay on some of the vinyl coming to you, as the pressing plant screwed up im a major way and shipped stuff to the wrong address. We have to chase down a lot of stuff. But if you ordered the Titus CD, Blank Dogs color vinyl LP and the other new TMU records- they are on the way.
If you ordered the special mailorder version (ltd 100) of Blank Dogs- they ship next week. We just got the vinyl from the plant today. (they shipped it to the wrong place!). We have to assemble them and ship them. Sorry again!
If you ordered the Italians stuff- the plant shipped everything to our distributor and they sold it all, but we managed to get a few copies which is going out next week, but be warned- you may have to wait a few extra days. Sorry again! We promise it won't happen again! These Italians titles all sold out in under 3 days. We weren't expecting it.
Also, thanks for all the Titus Andronicus orders...We still have a VERY small amount of the Titus Andronicus 7" on TMU (ltd 500). Order now or regret it when it's on Ebay in a month. I hear their debut 7" is all sold out. but ask them when you see them.
04.10.08
Tons of new stuff out...This stuff will ship in about 2.5 weeks as we are awaiting some of these from the plant. But order now as some of these are very limited...PLEASE be patient with the shipping time! Thanks in advance. We want to have these in the mail within 2 weeks, but it may take a little longer. Also the BLANK DOGS 7" will be out in a few months. Wanted to get these out first...
BLANK DOGS "On Two Sides" LP (200 on color, 800 on black)
BLANK DOGS "On Two Sides" LP - special edition (this comes with a bonus tape of exclusive material and hand screened recycled gatefold covers- on exclusive white wax as well) 100 copies only- only 50 for mailorder
RELIGIOUS KNIVES "Its After Dark" LP VINYL VERSION!
PRURIENT/SUTCLIFFE JUGEND 2XLP (ltd 800)
HAIR POLICE "The Empty Quarter" LP (ltd 750)
DEMONS/HATRED split LP (ltd 500)
SICK LLAMA 7" (ltd 300)
SISSY SPACEK 7" (ltd 300)
TITUS ANDRONICUS "The Airing Of Grievances" CD (special edition ltd to 700) vinyl coming soon
ALSO on ITALIANS DO IT BETTER:
INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE 12"
TIEDYE "Nothing" 12"
TIEDYE featuring Rubies and Fiest "I Feel Electric" 12"
There are also some bundles in the store to save you some $!
03.14.08
Hello. HAIR POLICE were in a bad car accident on the first day of their tour. No one was hurt thankfully, but their car was totaled and they had to cancel the tour...As a result, we bought up all of their tour merch in hopes to support them since they had some money invested in the tour. The NON-TMU store has TONS of tour-only releases like tapes, CDRs, vinyl... Some American Tapes releases..a lot of good and super limited stuff. So support our boys and grab this stuff (or regret it via Ebay later!)
03.05.08
Forgot to add this BLANK DOGS record:
We have a small amount of BLANK DOGS debut record entitled THE FIRST TWO WEEKS released on Freedom School. This is a repress of 300 copies on green vinyl. Hurry up and grab this because this is the one that started it all!!!! In theory you can pretty much build up an entire BLANK DOGS collection in our NON-TMU store. Hurry because I know these won't get repressed!
03.03.08
The good thing about living close to the BLANK DOGS is getting records from the band that are out of print. Go to the NON TMU store for these hard to get records. This will hold you over until the next bunch of TMU records in 3 weeks...
heres what we have:
Blank Dogs DIANA 12" (repress with green cover!)
Blank Dogs THE DOORBELL FIRE 7" (Sweet Rot)- repress of 200 with different style covers
Blank Dogs YELLOW MICE SLEEP 7" (hoZac) - GREEN VINYL edition of 200 - hand numbered.
02.25.08
Hello. Check out TMU in a few weeks for a bunch of new releases including the debut LP/CD by TITUS ANDRONICUS. We think this may be their year. Perhaps you agree? Check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sM-F5X0Ik3w
02.14.08
Happy Valentine's Day. To show my love for you we updated the NON TMU with the long awaited BLANK DOGS "Diana" 12" repress. Hurry, it won't last long. Also some other KILLER Prurient new releases and some Italians shirts. This will hold you over until the new releases coming very soon.
01.16.08
Hello. Almost a year in the making (no thanks to certain conglomerate forces putting the kabosh on the operation) ---- OUT NOW RELIGIOUS KNIVES "It's After Dark" CD. Vinyl out in a month or so - if you want the vinyl and we are making you wait- we are sorry! It will be worth the wait! This record SMOKES. They have progressed out of the straight noise to more psyched-out dubby noise sound that is 100% original and amazing. There is nothing else out there like it. The CD is ltd to 1500, and is almost sold out in pre-orders. Killer heavy stock CD covers as well. TMU is doing ltd CD runs from now on. 90% of TMU back catalog CDs will never be repressed, so grab em quickly.
Also HUGE NON-TMU update as well. Some killer stuff!
01.01.08
Happy New Year. Here's some MENEGUAR and WOODS videos to hold you over. Thanx to our Swedish friends Klas and Hendrik for the video. Look out for a huge new release schedule with tons of vinyl releases in the upcoming months:
MENEGUAR - Freshman Thoughts
MENEGUAR - Bury a Flower
WOODS - Night Creature
PS: Those of you looking for white vinyl copies (100 made) of the RELEASE THE BATS version of the MENEGUAR album. We got em in the NON-TMU section.
12.20.07
Check the NON-TMU for some new distro stuff. We will be slowing down operations over the xmas break. RELIGIOUS KNIVES LP/CD will be ready for the first week of Jan 2008. Very excited to see this one finally out. Then a BLANK DOGS LP and ltd mailorder only 7" limited to 200. Also more bootlegs of TMU stuff by TMU. SO happy holidays and all that.
Extra special thanks to Dennis, Joe and Kevin for all their understanding and friendship over the years. You guys are really great friends. You should all be very proud of yourselves.
11.15.07
Check the NON-TMU for some kliller stuff by BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER and a very limited restock of BLANK DOGS "Diana" 12" - we got the last 10 copies ever! BSBC is some super dark shit dudes. In house favorites here.
11.05.07
OUT NOW: TITUS ANDRONICUS "Camus" 7". 500 pressed with hand numbered silkscreened covers. We sold out of this in advance thru our distro, and we only have 30 copies for mailorder. Check this band out here: http://myspace.com/titusandronicus
This will not last long. So please hurry up.
10.16.07
TMU at CMJ this year!!!!
Nope.
09.12.07
MENEGUAR "Strangers In Our House" LP/CD. Vinyl is pressed in an edition of 1000. 700 black, 200 green, and 100 white. CD as well. The vinyl is printed on insane super thick cardboard casewrap gatefold covers, making this record weigh as much as three regular LPs. SICK. It was very expensive to make, hence the slightly higher price. Trust us, it's well worth it! Also, all MENEGUAR LP orders will receive a "Strangers In Our House" poster (while supplies last). These posters are HUGE double-sided newsprint. They look incredible!!!
We also have the Euro pressing of the MENEGUAR "Strangers In Our House" LP on Release The Bats, available in the NON-TMU section. We will have these in stock when the band gets back from tour the first week of October, so if you order anything else we will ship it now and the MENEGUAR Euro LP separately later. But order it fast because we do not have many to spare.
Also have three new Italians Do It Better 12"s in for you. Also, there are a few bundle specials. Dew it!
08.27.07
Hello. We are expecting the new MENEGUAR record in about 10 days. After that is TITUS ANDRONICUS 7" and then the long awaited RELIGIOUS KNIVES record. Then it will be the PRURIENT 2xLP picture disc AND finally the newest addition to our tiny tiny stable of releases: BLANK DOGS. They have a number of releases out that you can currently get in the NON TMU store. Check out their myspace as well: http://www.myspace.com/blankdogtime
TMU will be releasing their debut LP. There will be no CD version thankfully. We are proud of this forthcoming release. A breath of fresh air in a crappy music filled world.
In other news, TMU will also be releasing the debut record by TITUS ANDRONICUS, based out of Glen Rock, NJ of all places. Weird right? GLASS CANDY and CHROMATICS are no longer on TMU. They have jumped ship to Italians Do It Better records. We wish them well. It was a good run. Godspeed my friends. See you on the other side.
In NON TMU news: We managed to grab a bunch of stuff you really need. TWO more BLANK DOGS releases, both of which are sold out already. Knowing the band has its perks. Also stocked some new Fuck It Tapes records by our best friend Jana Hunter and Christian Family Underground.
08.20.07
Check the NON-TMU section of the STORE for some new stuff by BLANK DOGS (TMU record of the month!), BURNING STAR CORE, MACRONYMPHA, and the RELIGIOUS KNIVES/WOODS tour tape- AS WELL AS the RELIGIOUS KNIVES Euro tour CD. Also got some killer FUCK IT TAPES stuff as well. This stuff wont last very long.
07.19.07
While TMU is experiencing the summer downtime from releases, we managed to stock the NON TMU section with some killer stuff like Graveyards LP, NO AGE stuff (hurry up and grab these FAST!) and some other killer shit.
In a few weeks we will come out of hibernation with a new MENEGUAR LP/CD, and some Italians Do It Better 12"s....So support the NON-TMU store in these hot months. Thanx.
ps: The After Dark CDs go out this week. Sorry for the delay!!!
07.07.07
Attention all who ordered the ITALIANS DO IT BETTER CD after June 26, 2007:
We had to make more CDs due to the overwhelming response. Originally this was a limited edition of about 200 copies , and it was to be sold on the recent west coast GLASS CANDY tour to promote the new label. We have been receiving TONS of orders for this, and we officially ran out of them 2 days ago. We expect the repress to be ready by the 12th of July. If you ordered the CD before June 26, your CD is shipped and on its way to you. Otherwise, expect your CD to arrive in approximately 10 days. Please be patient!!!! Each CD is hand made/cut/glued/colored by the fine people of GLASS CANDY and CHROMATICS. It's a true work of art and it takes time to make each one.
PLUS, we are pressing this as a "proper" CD with printed covers in the future, but all mailorders get the cool limited edition hand made version.
All we ask is you be patient. You will all get your CDs! This is the only place you can get this release, and we thank you for your support. Italians Do It Better loves you.
06.26.07
Hello. Below is a list of all the returned mail we have accumulated over the last few months. It seems the amount of returned mail has tripled over the last few months. Almost all of this mail is marked UNCLAIMED and returned to us. Not sure why. If your name is on here email us and we will get this shit sorted out. And remember my friends: FUCK THE USPS!
Charles Nickles from NYC
Pascal Sanchez from France
John Ennis from Ohio
Ryan Cornwell from NY (Priority Mail package)
Sylvian Castillous from Montreal
Rich Mudge from Yonkers (HUGE BOX DUDE- EMAIL US!)
Derek Gedalecia from San Francisco
Christopher Gibson from Canada
Simon Taylor Davies from the UK
Eryn Ross from Olympia
Joseph Steinhardt from Mass
EMAIL US
06.17.07
Check the NON-TMU section of the STORE for 2 new KHANATE CDs on Archive. We also have some older harder to get Archive CDs. Scroll down...Also restocked the ITALIANS DO IT BETTER CD. Hurry, these are the last of them!!!!
06.09.07
LOTUS EATERS "Wurmwulv" CD out now. Vinyl coming soon. The CD is housed in a tri-fold DVD digipak case. LOTUS EATERS is Stephen O'Malley, James Poltkin, and Aaron Turner.
06.02.07
OUT NOW:
RELIGIOUS KNIVES "In Brooklyn After Dark" 12"
VEGAS MARTYRS "The Female Mind" LP
Both are vinyl only, and both are ltd to 750. We sold a bunch at No Fun Fest so there aren't many of these left. We are offering a bundle for these 2 records to save you $. We also lowered our prices, and made shipping separate for media instead of postage paid. Also, mailorder gets color vinyl. RELIGIOUS KNIVES is ltd to 200 on white vinyl, and VEGAS MARTYRS is ltd to 200 on green vinyl.
Also added a bunch of stuff in NON-TMU section. Some pretty excellent stuff, and some older stuff we found in our stockroom that's available in small quantities.
05.23.07
Hello. So the US postal service raised their rates a lot, so we had to do the same. We apologize for the new rates. We now have to charge for media mail instead of making it postage paid. But in the future we will be lowering out prices to reflect the new rates. I know it sounds confusing, but you'll notice it soon. The international postage rates also went up significantly. VERY sorry. Proud to be an American!
05.14.07
TMU has a KILLER release in the NON-TMU section of the STORE: ITALIANS DO IT BETTER sampler Tour CD. Contains exclusive tracks by GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, FARRAH, PROFESSOR GENIUS, MIRAGE.... all your favorites. This CD was designed and compiled by Johnny from GLASS CANDY in true Johnny style. If you are familiar with the GLASS CANDY/CHROMATICS Tour CDRs you will definitely want this one. Amazing one of a kind hand made/glued/colored gatefold covers with professionally printed CDRs and all UNRELEASED SONGS!!!! Like all GLASS CANDY Tour CDRs, only a small amount were made for the GLASS CANDY West coast tour, so if you live outside of the West coast this is the only place to get it. Serioiusly, this is the future right here, and ITALIANS DO IT BETTER is the best new label out there.
Check it out:
http://www.myspace.com/italiansdoitbetterrecords
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com
Also, come by NO FUN this weekend and visit the TMU merch table. Mike will be DJing NO FUN Thursday as well. This is a SICK lineup. Also check out the leaderless exhibit in NYC at printed matter and get some tapes.
05.07.07
Hello. The postage rates are going up May 14. Apparently the USPS are getting rid of SURFACE MAIL for international orders, which means you will be forced to pay for AIRMAIL, which sucks. Also, media rates are going up a lot...and Priority rates are going through the roof. SO, if you want to order any TMU stuff - do it by the 11th of May, and save money.
05.04.07
Check out NON-TMU section of the STORE for some killer new releases. Very ltd quantities of a Religious Knives 12" on Heavy Tapes, and the Blank Dogs LP- the TMU official record of the month. Shit rules.
Playlist: Williamsburg in the spring (NOT)
04.26.07
OK, here's the big update we've been telling you about:
1. OUT NOW: GROWING "Vision Swim" LP/CD.
Color vinyl rundowns for the vinyl:
100 white vinyl
200 clear vinyl
700 black 180g vinyl
No limit per customer on this one, go nuts. We need the room in our warehouse. This record is packaged with die cut covers. There are TWENTY ONE invividual die cuts on the front cover. The pressing plant said that is the most die cuts they have ever manufactured for a record sleeve. The inner sleeve is full color and slides under the LP jacket, and looks different every angle you stick it in. Pretty intense, and due to the high production costs, it is a little more expensive than your average record, but well worth it. We are most proud of this record. The tour/mailorder sold out VERY fast. Thanks for ordering. You won't be disappointed by this one either!
2. OUT NOW: JOHN WIESE "Soft Punk" LP/CD.
Color vinyl rundown for this title:
200 pink marble vinyl
800 black vinyl
1000 CD (almost sold out)
Once again, the color vinyl looks SICK! Grab it fast. They won't last long.
3. OUT NOW: WOODS "At Rear House" LP.
This is Jeremy and Christian from MENEGUAR going acoustic on your ass. This is the vinyl version of the Shrimper CD.
Pressing info:
100 clear vinyl
900 black vinyl
4. OUT NOW: GLASS CANDY "I Always Say Yes" 12".
Special vinyl only release. These songs will NOT be on the full length. Super spaced out baeleric disco with an Italo edge. 100% essential and necessary if you are a fan of excellent synth based sounds.
5. NON-TMU added some killer stuff. Newest stuff at the top. Grab it quick. Restocked Taylor Bow 7" for the last time. Heavy Tapes restocks are almost gone. They are on eBay already so get them FAST! New Titus Andronicus 7" which earns the RECORD OF THE MONTH from Mike/TMU. Seriously get that record!!!
Have a nice day.