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To borrow our pal Keith Fullerton Whitman's response, we're not
amazon.com around here people. We are a small operation and try
our best to get stuff out in a timely fashion, but there are limitations
to what we can do. Here's how things work: we get to the post office
at least twice a week, sometimes more. But minimum of twice a week.
If you're in the USA and ordered a CD, it goes first class mail
and should arrive within two weeks of your order being placed. If
you order an LP, it usually goes media mail, which takes longer.
If you are overseas, we send things airmail. Hopefully your order
will arrive in a timely fashion, but shipping internationally can
mean a pretty wide range of delivery times. We've sent stuff to
the UK that arrived the next day (!), but more often than not, it'll
take two weeks or so to get your order.
Bottom line: if you get in touch with us asking about your order
the day after you place it, it'll probably rub us the wrong way.
Best to have some patience and wait for about two weeks before griping.
It'll make everyone feel better.
If the catalog says out of print, it truly is. While we might have
held onto a copy or two to give to our grandchildren, there are
no more copies for sale. Many distributors and mail order types
often have things in stock even when we here at C-Plate HQ don’t,
so we’d advise you to visit a few of the places in the links section
is you’re desperate. Otherwise, keep your eyes peeled next time
you’re at the used record store. Things pop up from time to time,
you know?
Yes, Catsup Plate used to be a tape-only label 'round about 1993 until around
1997. All that stuff is out of print at this point for a number of reasons: 1)
some of it is embarrassingly terrible, 2) some of it has or will be re-released
on a more appreciated format, 3) nobody buys tapes any more (sadly), 4) our trusty
dubbing deck has just about given up the ghost, 5) we're just not equipped to
do it any more. So, all those releases, in their Catsup Plate form, are out of
print. If you poke around, you might find a few copies available on the Internet,
so that's probably your best bet.
Money and space. Pressing up a
record requires a lot of money and since most C-Plate releases lose money in the
end, we’d rather not be using rent money to pay for a few more copies of something.
Plus we’ve no interest in warehousing boxes and boxes of unsold copies in the
living room. Also, its kind of fun to do a small run of something, let it sell
out, and move on.
No. If they aren’t on the album, then
we don’t have them. For the most part, your guess is as good as mine as to how
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