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From PUSA

This email is to folks who ordered (and pre paid for) PUSA albums from Bandbox last year. Most of you know by now that they went abruptly ass-up a couple weeks ago, after being weird and cagey starting in Nov and going totally silent on us in January.

They are in receivership, which is similar to bankruptcy but also different? Looks like bankruptcy to us, but we are not lawyers.** You may have gotten a notification about their filing document in Minnesota state court. It's pretty easy to find online if you'd like to read it, but it is very boring, and even skimming it may make you dumber.

Here's a YouTube video that is the best single explainer resource we've found, it's 10min long, but worth a skim.
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like us, this person is not a lawyer! But he is a good explainer, and that's a pretty boss-looking vinyl collection in the background
Also there is a BB subreddit which has some good info...in particular there's a nice piece of writing from Luna's Dean Wareham (he is also not a lawyer!) that mostly mirrors the PUSA sit-rep.

Anyway,

-We are extremely bummed out that this company stiffed you/us/all those other fanbases. The odds of anyone being refunded by the recievership are remote. Seeking a refund through your credit card company might be useful, but who knows....

-This is unlikely, but If we end up with an opportunity to acquire the records (we're pretty sure ours were pressed at least) we will try.

-If anything changes, we'll ping you here, and even if nothing changes, I'll reach out again in a couple weeks to confirm that nothing changed.

Thanks for being big enough fans to seek out our little-er records, we appreciate you!

-J and D and CB
 
Crabbers said:
From PUSA

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This email is to folks who ordered (and pre paid for) PUSA albums from Bandbox last year. Most of you know by now that they went abruptly ass-up a couple weeks ago, after being weird and cagey starting in Nov and going totally silent on us in January.

They are in receivership, which is similar to bankruptcy but also different? Looks like bankruptcy to us, but we are not lawyers.** You may have gotten a notification about their filing document in Minnesota state court. It's pretty easy to find online if you'd like to read it, but it is very boring, and even skimming it may make you dumber.

Here's a YouTube video that is the best single explainer resource we've found, it's 10min long, but worth a skim.
​
​
like us, this person is not a lawyer! But he is a good explainer, and that's a pretty boss-looking vinyl collection in the background
​
Also there is a BB subreddit which has some good info...in particular there's a nice piece of writing from Luna's Dean Wareham (he is also not a lawyer!) that mostly mirrors the PUSA sit-rep.

Anyway,

-We are extremely bummed out that this company stiffed you/us/all those other fanbases. The odds of anyone being refunded by the recievership are remote. Seeking a refund through your credit card company might be useful, but who knows....

-This is unlikely, but If we end up with an opportunity to acquire the records (we're pretty sure ours were pressed at least) we will try.

-If anything changes, we'll ping you here, and even if nothing changes, I'll reach out again in a couple weeks to confirm that nothing changed.

Thanks for being big enough fans to seek out our little-er records, we appreciate you!

-J and D and CB
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So 4 months of stiffing and not responding to clients, yet running big sales in late December. Scumbags!
 
i feel kinda weird about the TMBG record.... i should like them because i like other similar weird acts and homestar runner nostalgia... but i dunno something about their sound doesn't sound right to me... i might have to PIF or sell it
 
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