Yeah, gotta say I agree, even as a Bboy, it wasn’t my bag.
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Drugs?
Yeh it’s well crap! Spoilt a perfectly good London loft party
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Twee, polished, disney jazz. Just awful.
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Any reason to get Crooked Man/Parrot onto another thread? Certainly.
Exclusive to any record shop you care to look in, strictly limited (to the number of people who wish to buy it) and NOT available digitally (apart from on our Bandcamp site).
The post-truth era indeed.
In fairness they were possibly exercising caution re demand initially and that position may have changed due to increase in demand?
Just a thought
So increase demand by marketing it as a Limited edition and not available digitally and only available exclusively at Phonica (and SOTU, Rough Trade, Bandcamp etc etc) then when demand is suitably increased make it available digitally and unlimited and not exclusive. I get it now.
Well they got me.
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Well i dunno I don’t work for the company. Just playing devils advocate don’t know all the details
Good record from the clips I heard.
You can’t really expect someone called Crooked Man to to be on the level
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Hmmmm, I get that the popularity of the track might of taken them by surprise and, given the state of the music industry, I can’t get too mad about them wanting to fulfil that demand. But I think there might have been better ways of going about it. Maybe releasing a radio edit digitally and pressing up a different (non “promo”) version of the record.
I suppose they wanted to strike whilst the iron was hot. However when presented as above, it looks a bit shady.
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“500 vinyls” 
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DJ’s…
Still available at these exclusive stores and has been for the last two weeks. Are they struggling to sell 500? Or have they made more?
The pressing is poor in my opinion very quiet and crackly throughout, both no good for a track like “It must be love” or any for that matter.
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Fortunately it is available digitally 
Mine sounds fine tbh
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Mine arrived the same day the digital appeared on their bandcamp and remains sealed as I only bought it to go thru the faff of ripping it as I believed the bull about no digital release.
I am bloody livid, will be waiting in the hope that I can get my $ back selling it, and will be waiting further for the digital to be leaked as these cnuts do not deserve any more of my money
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I think you’d have a strong case under the mis-selling of goods act. They’ve misrepresented the availability in almost every way possible.
I’d be surprised if a major label would act so dishonestly for fear of being sued but I’d naively think an independent would be more authentic.
I guess they’re not.
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Probably - with the same blurb about availability on all the websites they wouldn’t be able to put the blame on the shops.
The misrepresentation is blatantly for one reason - to inflate the price so they can trouser an extra tenner on each record. I always thought of Ross as one of the good guys.
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