Monday, December 17th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Store

After a couple months of development and re-tooling we are excited and proud to unveil the brand new mewithoutYou Online Store from 11Spot. Its a lot smoother, its a lot prettier, you can sign in with Facebook and you can check out with PayPal. Below are are some of the EXCLUSIVE items we have in the store right now ready to sell that you can’t get anywhere else. In the near future we will be posting even more exclusive and super rare items items. Rest assured, we will let you know when these things go up. Lastly and somewhat most importantly we had a major delay in getting the store up and running and we know some of  are wanting to do some Holiday shopping still. You might be wondering if its to late. Well you don’t have to worry. We are offering FREE PRIORITY SHIPPING from now until the December 21st as well as  FREE SHIPPING from now until the end of the year. 

 

Click on the images to view them in the store.

February 1878 – 7 inch Single – $8

Ten Stories Big Booklet – $10

7 New Shirt Designs – $20 each: 

      

Back Catalogue on CD ($12) and Vinyl ($20): 
That’s right as long as supplies last you won’t have to shell out $70 bucks for Catch For Us The Foxes on vinyl. So get over there and buy one quickly. We seriously do not have many, we had to scrape the bottom of the barrel at Gilead Media just to get the ones we did. And also we only have a couple hundred left of the Ten Stories Box Set. This will probably be your last chance to grab one of these limited, hand-assembled sets.
Ten Stories Deluxe Box Set – $40
Will be updating the store over the next couple of days with lots of little design and interface tweaks as well as adding things like posters and digital downloads. But be sure to let us know what you think of the new store in the comments section and Facebook and Twitter. We’d love to hear your feedback and make the store the best it can be.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Store, Ten Stories, Update, Video

Last week the band got together a couple days after finishing out the first leg of our Summer Tour over to start assembling the first 2,000 copies of the Ten Stories Deluxe Box Sets. We had a day of set up and prep and then another two solid days of assembly and then another solid day of transportting and shipping the goods to Red Eye Distribution down in Haw River. All-in-all it was a full week of work just getting those first initial 2,000 sets out the door and there’s another 2,000 left to assemble and ship out. Which will be happening as soon as the next shipment of the actual boxes for the box sets arrive.

We’d like to thank all our friends who graciously volunteered their time in helping put these together and also to some that helped facilitate the shipping and receiving :
DJ Robinson, Jill Robinson, KJ Wagner, Mike Bachich, Brian Dwyer, Joe Hunter, Adam Malliet, Leann Gorman, Jess Hong, Scotty Krueger, Matt Chapin, Stephen Landis, Aziza Weiss, Daniel Pilger, Nate Wissler, Timmy Grant, Craig Almquist, Meg Lemiur, Nic Justice

There’s even more on the way, but we only have a couple hundred left unsold. Scoop’em up while you can over on our online store: http://mewithoutyou.11spot.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=7166

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Thursday, May 24th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update

If you’ve pre-ordered a Compact Disc of Ten Stories then chances are most of you have already received your copy. Which is awesome, right? However, if you’ve pre-ordered an LP of Ten Stories I regret to inform you that we are running behind due to a major set back a couple weeks ago. When the first test pressings came in they didn’t quite cut the mustard. So we had to go back, get the album re-mastered to 24-bit files, get the the lacquer recut and get new plates and stampers made. Woo! Man… making records can be complicated at times. At that point we knew we weren’t going to be able to make the LPs and CD launch on the same day, but we figured its better to have a late LP than a poor sounding one. After all its only gonna be late once and now it can sound good forever. So stick tight with those bad boys. Don’t worry they are coming. I’m actually listening to the 2nd Test Pressing of the Standard LP right now and about to approve it with our production manager. Its the difference of night and day. So I think we made a good call.

There’s also been a lot of questions as to when the Deluxe Box Sets will ship. A lot of people think they are shipping tomorrow or have already shipped. This is not the case. We still don’t have all the pieces of the Box Set in our hands right now. We are still waiting on a majority of the pieces to come in. They should all be in the next couple weeks but we will be out on tour. So they’ll ship to Philadelphia but no one will be there to put them together and when I say put them together I mean just that. The sleeves and LPs come from one place, the 7 inches come from another, the CDs, Posters, Booklets all come from different places. So when all the parts are in we have to assemble them by hand and ship them off ourselves. It should be a couple days of work at least. So we are working hard to get all this stuff out there to our fans who have helped us make this pre-order a success. Look for the majority of those to ship at the end of June. Don’t worry it’ll be worth it.

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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update
The day has finally come. After a year of placeholders and teasers, pre-orders and EPKS, track premieres and early streams we have finally arrived on this date. We are very proud to offer to our to you our fifth album. When our contract was up with Tooth & Nail we decided not to do the easy thing and resign. The band began writing as a unit for the first time since 2008. We borrowed a lot of money and used some of our own. We entered new areas of music business that, quite frankly, none of us knew anything about. All-in-all we relied on each other to make this thing actually happen. The outpour of love and support from everybody friends and family and fans has been super encouraging and totally amazing. We just want to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of you.
For those of you that are just hearing about our new album for the first time here’s the rundown. This is our first fully independent record. It’s called “Ten Stories” and has 11 songs (see what we did there?). The album more or less (let’s just say “less”) about a group of circus animals that survive a train crash in the Montana Winter of the late 1800′s. Its actually a lot more honest of a record than that sentence lets on. So right now we’ve got a lot of options for you if you’re interested:
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Monday, May 14th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update

Right now we are all anxious counting down to when our new album “Ten Stories” is officially unleashed upon the world. Starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time (we’re from Philly after all) we will have Digital Downloads available to all the world exclusively from our website through a simple PayPal transaction. For all your early adopters who pre-ordered the CD, the LP, or the Box Set you will be receiving an email later tonight with instructions on how to get your Digital Download. It won’t be complicated. You will get an email with a link to a “secret page” where you’ll be able to enter your email address. From there you should be able to download your digital copy of Ten Stories. Its gonna be exciting.

BUY LOCAL
For all you who didn’t pre-order the new album, if you live in the US or Canada and want to get a physical copy of Ten Stories, we strongly urge you to go ou and pick up the CD at an independent retailer tomorrow. We think record stores are super important when it comes to healthy appreciation of music. Click the button below and see where you can pick up a copy nearest you. If you’re not near an indie store our Ten Stories will also be available in Best Buys around the country as well. Its not independent but it is what is and we appreciate the support anyway we can get it (after all we did ship 1,200 copies to them) and you shouldn’t feel bad in anyway if this is your only option.

CONCERNING PRE-ORDERS
If you’ve pre-ordered a Compact Disc of Ten Stories then chances are most of you have already received your copy. Which is awesome, right? However, if you’ve pre-ordered an LP of Ten Stories I regret to inform you that we are running behind due to a major set back a couple weeks ago. When the first test pressings came in they didn’t quite cut the mustard. So we had to go back, get the album re-mastered to 24-bit files, get the the lacquer recut and get new plates and stampers made. Woo! Man… making records can be complicated at times. At that point we knew we weren’t going to be able to make the LPs and CD launch on the same day, but we figured its better to have a late LP than a poor sounding one. After all its only gonna be late once and now it can sound good forever. So stick tight with those bad boys. Don’t worry they are coming. I’m actually listening to the 2nd Test Pressing of the Standard LP right now and about to approve it with our production manager. Its the difference of night and day. So I think we made a good call.

There’s also been a lot of questions as to when the Deluxe Box Sets will ship. A lot of people think they are shipping tomorrow or have already shipped. This is not the case. We still don’t have all the pieces of the Box Set in our hands right now. We are still waiting on a majority of the pieces to come in. They should all be in the next couple weeks but we will be out on tour. So they’ll ship to Philadelphia but no one will be there to put them together and when I say put them together I mean just that. The sleeves and LPs come from one place, the 7 inches come from another, the CDs, Posters, Booklets all come from different places. So when all the parts are in we have to assemble them by hand and ship them off ourselves. It should be a couple days of work at least. So we are working hard to get all this stuff out there to our fans who have helped us make this pre-order a success. Look for the majority of those to ship at the end of June. Don’t worry it’ll be worth it.

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Friday, April 27th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update

Sooo… we blew through that last set of Ten Stories Deluxe Box Sets. We had NO IDEA people would be this pumped on that package. We’ve been getting a lot of requests and some complaints that the full packaging was so limited.  It seems more and more people are coming out of the wood work everyday asking us to make more. We felt like we were stuck in a dilemma yet again. “How can we keep those first 2,000 copies special and how can we give the rest of our fans the package they so obviously desire?” The conclusion we all came to was to do another run of Box Sets except scale them down a bit. We’re sorry if that’s a disappointment to some of you but we wanted reward those who showed up early. But we also don’t want to punish those who came late either. That’s why the Box Set still includes the 2XLP on Colored Vinyl, the 4th Side Etching, the inner sleeves, the B-sides 7″, the 28-page booklet, and the 11×17 Poster all in that big beautiful 1″ box. Gone are the autographs, the 180 gram, the Icy Blue, the Audiophile Black, and the hand-numbered boxes.

We are still limited to the quantities we can make of these, because they cost a TON of money to make (money we don’t have yet) and they’re gonna take a lot of effort to assemble them. That being said if we sell out again we’ll try to make more  of these in the near future but right now we’ve hit our limit in terms of  production cost.Here’s a complete list of the new specs on this package:

• 2XLP on Colored Heavy Weight Vinyl
• 4th Side Vinyl Etching
• Custom Inner Sleeves
• 28 pg lyric booklet with 11 original paintings by Vasily Kafanov
• 11x 17 Poster
• 13 Song Bonus CD with Alternate Album Cover
• Instant Digital Download on street date
• Exclusive B-Sides 7” Single “Other Stories:”
Includes an 8 pg lyric booklet, 2 more original paintings by Vasily Kafanov and foreword by the band’s drummer Rick Mazzotta
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update

Good news! The pre-sale has been a hugely successful so far and in less than 24 hours we sold out of all Deluxe Box Sets. We initially thought 1,000 of these Deluxe Box Sets we’re going to last us the 5 weeks leading up to the street date. So when they started to fly like hot cakes on Tuesday we thought to ourselves “Man, we should’ve made more.” But we weren’t going to do that. To say a pressing is limited to a 1,000 and then bump up that number just to sell more copies, we felt would’ve been a disingenuous move . “You live and you learn. Next time we’ll do more.”

But as it turns our online merch company is working with somewhat of an antiquated system where they have to manually pull down items in the store if they get too close to their stock limit. Long story short the guys who handle our online sales weren’t able to pull the Deluxe Box Sets from the store in time and oversold them by 265 copies. So we we’re left with the choices Refund those 265 orders or Order more. It seems clear that there is a demand for this product and we don’t want to bum anyone out who already think they’re getting Deluxe Box Set in June only to be told they aren’t. So today we made some calls to the manufacturers today and bumped up all our orders by an additional 1,000. Which works out better for our costs cause we hit certain price breaks at that amount. So really everybody wins here except for  the people who think 1,000 copies is cooler than 2,000 copies. For that we are sorry but they’ll probably get over it, right? And if exclusivity is really your concern then you can rest easy knowing that this time when we say 2,000 copies we mean 2,000 copies. So back on the table are another 500 Icy Blue and another 500 Audiophile Black.

CLICK HERE to pre-order the Deluxe Box Set now for only $40

Any questions, concerns and comments with your orders can should be directed here custserv@11spot.com

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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 by mewithoutYou in Music, Store, Ten Stories, Update

We are very excited to announce that starting today our new album Ten Stories is up for pre-sale on our brand new online store. Right now we’ve got the following options for you guys:

Compact Disc – $12
• 11 new songs
• Full color disc artwork
• 12 pg lyric booklet
• 8 original paintings by Vasily Kafanov

Vinyl LP – $18
• Marbled Gray vinyl
• Tip-on Gatefold Jacket
• 12 pg lyric booklet
• Extra 5×5 Insert
• 8 original paintings by Vasily Kafanov

Deluxe Box Set – $40
• Limited to 1,000 copies
• Hand-numbered
• 180 gram 2XLP available in two colors (Icy Blue, Audiophile Black)
• 4th Side Vinyl Etching
• Custom Inner Sleeves
• 28 pg lyric booklet with 11 original paintings by Vasily Kafanov
• Autographed 11x 17 Poster
• Bonus CD with Alternate Album Cover
• Exclusive B-Sides 7” Single “Other Stories:”
Includes an 8 pg lyric booklet, 2 more original paintings by Vasily Kafanov and foreword by Rick Mazzotta

All orders also include a free digital copy of the album that will be sent out the day the album drops (5/15/12). For those of you who hate physical media we are working on setting up a way to just buy the digital download, but we ran into a couple issues at the eleventh hour.

Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume

Last but not least every pre-sale order will come with an automatic free download of album track “Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume,” which has our friend Hayley Williams of Paramore contributing vocals. This song is definitely a highlight moment of the album. We think you guys are gonna love it.

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