digital downloads (flac)
i am not bandcamp and i don't have a gigantic server complex that can script the conversion process. i will only be selling flacs in the quality the release was initially produced in (there is no use in upsampling). you can do what you will with those flacs. i will indicate the quality on the download page. flacs are available at the item's page, to be located in the matrix:
optical media (audio) [aka cds]
i've made a decision to no longer sell audio cds, for now. when i moved to windsor in 2013, i thought i could build an economical on-demand cd factory in my spare room, and actually did, but i cannot get around the price of ink, which makes it impossible to produce commercial optical disc packaging for a reasonable price in quantities that are not at scale. i would need to produce at scale, which means overproducing specific items in bulk, or not at all. i'd have to run out the entire ink cartridge as soon as i buy it, or it will dry out and end up as a loss. this doesn't currently make sense; the point was to do it on demand, because i expect sales to be sporadic, over a large body of work. instead, i will include printable cover art in the download of any digital purchase; you can then create your own cd-r or dvd-r or bd-r if you'd like to. or not.
that said, i may reconsider producing locally if sales suddenly pick up (but who is expecting an uptick in cd sales in 2023?) or i may alternatively consider sending some of these releases to a factory for physical production if i'm convinced that it makes sense to do so. in order for me to send any of these releases to a factory for production, i would need to have actual interest displayed in them and funding generated to do so beforehand. while i do believe that i have an audience floating through the deep web that i've found difficult to quantify the size of, they don't buy my records or fund me in any way. i mean, i have the shittiest audience you could imagine; they're all thieves and hackers. my audience consists solely of losers that post at 4chan and think i'm thot. i'd hate them if i ever met them. worse, i'm sure they think i'm rich; i'm not. i live on permanent disability due to an irreversible stress disorder. i've received a lot of free money from things like lawsuits and severance payouts and used it to buy what is a substantive amount of instruments and electronics; further, i don't waste money on things like cars or phones, i direct what little disposable income i have on my studio. yet, the reality is that it's all cheap gear that i've been collecting for decades and i'm actually constantly penniless and on the brink of homelessness. if you like anything i do, be it thee writing or the music or whatever else, i'd appreciate your money. really.
if you want me to do a professional run of any of these records, tell me somehow and i'll try to figure out if it makes sense or not. until or if that happens, i will not be producing further optical media for sale.
that said, if there is a specific recording that you really like and you really want me to make you an audio cd, i can do so on request, in theory. contact me for pricing and for options.
vinyl
i know you kids dig your vinyl because you all want to make america great again. well, it's true. admit it. you're pining for a simpler time, when music was strictly magnetic rather than made up of these quantized 1s and 0s. you want your newtonian alchemy. you don't see the irony in your phone obsessions, either.
the reality is that vinyl sounds like shit. i'm sorry to be the nerd to break it to you, but you actually like vinyl because it sounds like shit. i'm merely informing you of this fact: you crave the lower signal to noise ratio, you enjoy the harmonic distortion. you prefer low quality. it's so very punk rock.
without getting into this in too much depth, my point is really that my music would not transfer well to vinyl because it's so digitally focused. there are a handful of releases, like the wave (inri053), that might sound better on vinyl. broadly speaking, however, my music will sound infinitely better in a digital audio format, and i actually don't want to ruin the sound quality of my art by converting it to an obsolete and inferior medium.
i know the point is that you like the pictures. you're the one that likes all the pretty pictures. i get it. however, i'd have to sell a lot of digital files or have a very strong demonstration of interest to justify producing vinyl. there are currently no vinyl items for sale, there has not ever been and i would not expect there to ever be.
clothing
goddammit, i'm a musician, not a retailer. i'm not about to "hire" some 8 year-old vietnamese kids to make me shirts at slave labour input costs and then mark them up 10000% to rip you off in order to pay my rent, because you won't fucking buy the fucking music. fuck that. fuck everything about that. just fucking buy the fucking music.
that said, i may consider producing clothing made in north america by unionized workers who are compensated at fair wages if some interest is demonstrated. such clothing would not be cheap, but it would be nice. i might also be interested in designing logos and letting you print your own shirt. if you really want an inri or a jjjjjjjjj or a trivial group or a (...) shirt, send me an email and we can talk about this.
vinyl
i know you kids dig your vinyl because you all want to make america great again. well, it's true. admit it. you're pining for a simpler time, when music was strictly magnetic rather than made up of these quantized 1s and 0s. you want your newtonian alchemy. you don't see the irony in your phone obsessions, either.
the reality is that vinyl sounds like shit. i'm sorry to be the nerd to break it to you, but you actually like vinyl because it sounds like shit. i'm merely informing you of this fact: you crave the lower signal to noise ratio, you enjoy the harmonic distortion. you prefer low quality. it's so very punk rock.
without getting into this in too much depth, my point is really that my music would not transfer well to vinyl because it's so digitally focused. there are a handful of releases, like the wave (inri053), that might sound better on vinyl. broadly speaking, however, my music will sound infinitely better in a digital audio format, and i actually don't want to ruin the sound quality of my art by converting it to an obsolete and inferior medium.
i know the point is that you like the pictures. you're the one that likes all the pretty pictures. i get it. however, i'd have to sell a lot of digital files or have a very strong demonstration of interest to justify producing vinyl. there are currently no vinyl items for sale, there has not ever been and i would not expect there to ever be.
clothing
goddammit, i'm a musician, not a retailer. i'm not about to "hire" some 8 year-old vietnamese kids to make me shirts at slave labour input costs and then mark them up 10000% to rip you off in order to pay my rent, because you won't fucking buy the fucking music. fuck that. fuck everything about that. just fucking buy the fucking music.
that said, i may consider producing clothing made in north america by unionized workers who are compensated at fair wages if some interest is demonstrated. such clothing would not be cheap, but it would be nice. i might also be interested in designing logos and letting you print your own shirt. if you really want an inri or a jjjjjjjjj or a trivial group or a (...) shirt, send me an email and we can talk about this.