This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Topshelf Records have launched a Kickstarter to help save the label’s inventory: while making plans to book last second flights down to Austin to rent trucks and load up our inventory in order to drive it up to Portland and try and figure out what we would do with it all, we learned that Awesome’s US business is in the process of being sold to an acquisitions company and everything that they had within their facility—all equipment, machinery, supplies, and client inventory—is being treated as property of the property management company, sold AS-IS to this new acquisition company. subsequently, access to our own inventory is now being denied to us. we’re being told we don’t have legal grounds to enter the building nor do we have legal grounds to lay claim to anything in the building. we expect we have several costly legal battles in front of us if this logic prevails. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos, tweets, etc.
Situation seems really dodgy. Hopeless use them in the UK for their distribution too. I placed my pre-order for the new Wonder Years record last week and then my friend pointed me to this Topshelf Thing and I recognised the name. I ended up stumbling on this: Investors to lose £650,000 as Awesome Merchandise goes into controversial administration Looks like the UK side of things were working OK and then they took on extra investment to get going in the US. They went into administration in August and somehow the original owner bought them back. There's loads of Trust Pilot reviews saying that they've been failing to fulfill merch orders (as in printing t-shirts, stickers, etc) for the last few months. I contacted Hopeless UK and got a response from Awesome Distro to say everything is fine. I'm not at all convinced. Hope the situation for Topshelf (and presumably others in the US?) works itself out fairly. Ridiculous that all their stock has basically been stolen.
Looks like this is hitting No Sleep Records, too. we need your help to save all of our stuff, organized by Chris Hansen