T-Shirt Super Sale - Women’s Sizes
(6 Items for $18.00)

This sale is very similar to the shirt sale we ran last week, this time though we are only dealing in Women’s sizes. Take a look at the descriptions and find your size. There are some really cool shirts and you will never find these kinds of deals again. Note that most of the shirts and skirts are American Apparel so make sure you know your size in AA. Good luck. The last sale sold out in like 8 hours so hopefully you get one in time!

We just sent out a statement about the future of Suburban Home, Vinyl Collective, and Dead Format. I figured that those of you who frequent Dead Format should know what is going on. The statement is rather lengthy so click the link if you have the time to read on.

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Suburban Home 25 for 25 sale

Suburban Home 50 for 50 sale

Inspired by a sale that our friend Mike Park of Asian Man Records did, we have decided to post a couple of absolutely ridiculous sales. The sales are pretty simple, you pay $50 and you get 50 CDs, you pay $25 and you get 25 CDs. We pick the CDs, but we promise that you will get an incredible mix of Punk, Indie Rock, Hardcore, Emo, and Alt-Country. The reason we are doing this sale is because over the past 11 years, we have accumulated quite a bit of stock and our office is full of boxes.

The life of a release pretty much peaks during the title’s shipout and its success is dependent on the activity of each band. When a band breaks up or slows down, the title usually does too. That doesn’t mean that the title is a lesser release, it just means the band’s momentum comes to a halt and most music fans aren’t actively picking up these titles. This is a perfect sale for someone looking to find out about new artists that they may have never heard and are looking for a bargain. My goal with this sale is to give a little bit of life to a handful of releases that maybe never got their just dues. Most of the acts represented incredible potential that for one reason or another didn’t quite make it not because they weren’t great, but because of any number of factors that cause incredible bands to stop playing. I guarantee that you will find many new releases that make it into your musical rotation and I also promise that you can expect at least one title from each of the following bands: The Gamits, The Queers, Against All Authority, The Rise, Ghost Buffalo, Laymen Terms, Kane Hodder, Honor System, Adventures of Jet, and Cadillac Blindside. I also promise that you can expect the following compilations: Broken Lamps 2, Amp Hardcore and Amp Metal, Jawbreaker Tribute, Green Day Tribute, and No Fi Trash.

The above photo is a sample of what you can expect from a 50 for 50 sale. If you were to purchase each title individually, you would pay over $500.00. Help us by helping yourself to a ton of new music. This sale will only go on for about a month or until we run out of CDs, whichever one comes first.

For the support we received in 2006, we would like to thank you by offering you a 10 percent discount on any order placed at Dead Format or Vinyl Collective starting now and going through the entire month of January. All you have to do is enter the coupon code 10PERCENT (all one word) in checkout. Thanks for making 2006 a great year and we look forward to working with you in 2007!

The folks at the USPS claim that orders can be received by Christmas so long as they are sent out today by first class or by Wednesday, December 20th by Priority Mail so long as you live in the United States. Don’t wait another day though as you just never know with the postal service. I recommend making all orders go out by Priority Mail to ensure you get the package on time.

And if you wait a few days to place your order, we recommend getting a Gift Certificate. Gift Certificates will be emailed back to you the same day that you place your order. You can print out the GC and still have a great Xmas gift.

We just signed Dead Format up for a Feedburner feed. We will be integrating it into our site, but we mention this because you can now subscribe to the feed in Itunes as well as whatever Blog Aggregator you use (we prefer Bloglines).

When subscribing in Itunes, you will automatically get every new mp3 we post in our news automatically downloaded to your Itunes Library. That way you can preview any new songs we post. You can do this by opening Itunes, Using the Advanced pull down, selecting “Subscribe to Podcast” and then pasting our feed address, http://feeds.feedburner.com/DeadFormat, into the field.

We are always thinking of things we can do to improve your shopping experience on Dead Format and one of the things we have come up with is 99 cent shipping for CDs within the United States. The shipping cover first class shipping for each CD. We are also offering $3.00 for all you can buy shipping whether you buy 5 cds or 1,000 cds. The $3.00 shipping is also for U.S. shipping and those types of orders are shipped by Media Mail. We hope the inexpensive shipping will make it that much easier to purchase CDs from Dead Format!

From now until September 30th, 2006, you can use the coupon code, CDSRULE, during checkout to receive $5.00 off of any order over $25.00. You can use the coupon code as many times as you like and tell as many people as you like so long as the code is used before the expiration date.