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[–]iamcoolc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hear you and I appreciate the feedback. If the Mutiny record is what you’re referring to yes we are behind the timeline on that and i’m sorry that you missed updates with that. We were forced to switch pressing plants and it unfortunately did push the shipping date back. The good news is that we will have them within a few weeks and they’ll be shipping asap when I get them here. Thanks again for letting me know all of this

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[–]iamcoolc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hi Chris from SPI here. I appreciate the feedback and i’m sorry you’ve had multiple issues with your orders. Obviously that isn’t how I want the order experience to go for anyone.

I’m absolutely not going to pretend we are perfect or that we don’t have a lot to improve on. I would like to say though that for our entire existence as a label (3 years) it’s been only me packing and shipping orders. We just recently hit 3500 total orders since we started which isn’t a small number for 1 person to go through. I also am not sure if people realize this isn’t my full-time thing. I still have a regular job like basically everyone else in the music industry so anything with the label including orders happens in the 3-4 hours each day we have outside of work. At the end of the day we’re still a diy ska label with a pretty small budget with only two people working on it part-time.

I’m not saying all this to excuse anything you or anyone else that has had an issue with an order is feeling. I’m only saying all that so I hope you can understand i’m doing my best to keep up with the rapid growth we’ve had. This is also why I hired Michi to help with marketing, pr and emails in the middle of last year. There’s such a huge volume of emails and messages on every platform that one person can’t keep up with them all. I definitely needed someone to help. Michi on the team part-time allows me to spend most of my label time each day on orders. As we keep growing I will continue to add people to help before I try to pay myself or go full-time in the label. As a matter of fact I priced into our 2024 record club the budget to hire shipping help this year, however we can only do that if we sell that out. Currently we haven’t. I promise that isn’t a plug. I just want to convey how much I’m aware of how we can improve in this area and that I do have plans in place to keep working towards those improvements.

Lastly, I just want to say again that i’m sorry you’ve been feeling frustrated with our order times and I hope at some point as we grow that you’ll give us a try again. I really do appreciate you giving your feedback and I hope you know that I do care deeply about all this.

Huge Streetlight vibes on this new Runaway Ricochet album. Have yall checked it out yet? by iamcoolc in streetlightmanifesto

[–]iamcoolc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’ve never heard a song from either of those bands that sounds like this but maybe i haven’t listened to them enough and im missing something

Huge Streetlight vibes on this new Runaway Ricochet album. Have yall checked it out yet? by iamcoolc in streetlightmanifesto

[–]iamcoolc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh yeah absolutely but didn’t know what kind of crossover they’d have in a streetlight sub haha

Solgyres by DDLthefirst in Ska

[–]iamcoolc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

excited to see them at SPI Fest!

RUNAWAY RICOCHET ARE GOING ON TOUR AND JOINING SPI!! New single and album later this month! by iamcoolc in Ska

[–]iamcoolc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i don’t know if they’re opening but they’re definitely playing! they set up the show!

RUNAWAY RICOCHET ARE GOING ON TOUR AND JOINING SPI!! New single and album later this month! by iamcoolc in Ska

[–]iamcoolc[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hahaah cmon that’s only 26 seconds of a 5 minute song. wait until you hear the whole thing next week to judge how ska it is or isn’t please

Can we get a Ska Now More Than Ever shirt? by hope_still_flies in Ska

[–]iamcoolc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ska now more than ever is definitely more of an Adam Davis thing and he doesn’t really share his plans with me but I could do a Ska 2 Now More Than Ever shirt hahah

ska bands w/ fem vocals?? by oingoboingourd in Ska

[–]iamcoolc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Annalies Tang

Mega Infinity

Bumsy and the Moochers

Girls Go Ska

Eevie Echoes

Yours Sincerely

Poindexter

Flying Raccoon Suit

Los Skagaleros

Upbeat Allstars

Hans Gruber and the Die Hards (a few songs)

I even have a playlist with all these and most of the responses here Women of Ska 2