2021 – Furnace Fest, Alabama. There were copies of “I Am Hollywood” hidden around the festival grounds, and no I didn’t find one among the organized chaos. The limited blue 500 run was sold out by that point. I ran into Adam and I was trying to score an elusive copy of “I Am Hollywood” … hell, the band didn’t even have copies.
See, the music industry is an EVIL business. I’ve seen it with my own eyes in the past 20+ years. Record labels are horrible! Those contracts have every loophole in THEIR favor, not the artist. From what I gathered (through the grapevine) Solidstate pressed the LP, the band had to buy the records and re-sell them. Record labels just tend to do whatever the hell they want. Victory Records (was) notorious for this.
June 19, 2022 – The band was self-releasing limited signed copies. I set an alarm to remind me. The online processor was all waky, my payment would not go through. Once again, the vinyl gods failed me.
July 2022 – I tried to snag one on eBay. I lost the winning bid with 3 seconds left. Again, thanks vinyl gods!! This past week, one of my friends on a glassJAw forum was able to score me a copy. FINALLY!! These vinyl scalpers were ridiculous. $200+ is the going rate for this LP. I know the band was actively trying to thwart those assholes.
So, here we are a year later and my search is happily over! ps… Maybe the butler did it?