There’s a superstitious tradition of going to the record store on release day to buy one’s own record. The thought is, if you won’t buy your own record, who will?
Here is the direct link to buy A Band In Hope on itunes.
Here is the direct link to buy A Band In Hope on itunes.
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ILL BUY YOUR RECORD SHAWN!!
ILL BUY IT!
Despite part of band's sudden lust for Avenged Sevenfold and the possibilty that the compact disc is going the way of the dinosaur and critical thinking...I went to Best Buy to purchase a tangible copy of your record. It's much better than the invisible leak. I just want to know who was responsible for the celebratory sticker of weirdness on the shrink wrap. I was thinking of putting your sound between Say Anything and QoTSA but then I said fuck it. You guy are The Matches and I am sure you won't forget.
Haha. Damnit, I'll never find it in a record store here. I'll just have to import it.
Would it benefit you guys more if I buy it from you at a show?
I definatly bought that CD yesterday, annnnd got a pre-order in the mail hehe
it's amazing, just like I knew it would be, can't wait to see you guys!
yayyy
xoMorgan Elaine
OH! P.S.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!
I dragged my mom Across Town to two different stores So I could buy it.
We Ended up in the mall at Hot Topic.
Because, though the clothes kind of make me laugh, they do have Cds I can't find at Best Buy.
Which Where I went first.
What Losers not to have you.
I lovelovelove the New CD.
I carried it around the first two hours I had it.
I love Matt Whalen. A friend and i were talking about how A Band In Hope is Whalentastic.
But i definitely bought the album. I actually bought two because i felt i had to yesterday. I think A Band In Hope has a Catcher In The Rye effect on me, not the murders or conspiracy to commit them mind you! Just the inspiration and when you see you feel as if you have to buy it.
A Band In Hope beat out my favourite album of all time to take that title. When i bought it, i was shaking, and when i listen to i was blown away. I would rave about much i LOVE and ADORE it, but i would have no clue where to start.
I just bought A Band In Hope this afternoon at Best Buy, and I was absolutely blown away! I love it. I'm still waiting for my preorder though. God only knows when I will get that. I can't wait to see the awesome T shirt!
silly boys.
Wasn't there a video of you guys trying to find one of the albums (Decomposer maybe? maybe?) and they didn't have it? It must be old or nonexistant, due to the fact that my memory of a video of it is certainly blurred.
Now then,
I play this hilarious game of going to/phoning every store in the northwest of England and asking them to order me in a copy of your CD, when I get mine (which I already have, well... I'll have two, I won the AP contest too but that doesn't count), I'll get tons and tons of phone calls telling me that this shop now has it in stock for me. I tell them "Oh, I have it now, sorry", and they just put them on the shelf.
It works brilliantly, I did it with Decomposer but with less stores, this time at least 12 shops have phoned me, I did way more shops than that, though, so expect more.
I tried going to the store yesterday to get the new CD(maybe because it sold out?), but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Needless to say, I was bummed.
I had to have the record store order it in, so now I have to wait at least a week to get my copy. Dammit. It better be worth the agonizing wait, Shawn.
Yay for Vampire Weekend!
your cd is tricky to find.
I'm curious as to what this album 'tastes like'. I have my copy, but am waiting for a review comparing something like vaginas to big mac's again (I like all the albums, and don't think any of them taste like vagina- unless you like that... then that's cool). It is again different from the last two, but then again, that's always good. Congrats and keep 'em coming.
I'm still waiting for mine in the mail...the suspense is killing me. I wandered over to Amazon to see if anyone else besides myself had left a review, and someone did. The fact that said someone wrote, "The lyrics are kinda bland. " about From 24C, and, "Kinda throw away. Not special at all." for Proctor Rd. made me want to vomit on my computer screen. Those are definitely two of my favorites on the record.
I think you guys more than outdid yourselves, I couldn't ask for anything better. Everything I heard surprised me, but at the same time, I sort of expected it...if that makes sense. There are so many little details that just make my brain sort of melt, and as for your voice, it's outstanding. Again, there's a lot of beauty in the details, I'm glad I have to sit and really listen to get the full effect, that's the best kind of music.
I picked up my copy yesterday.
There were 4 of us, and we sold them out.
hahaha.
I bought it yesterday! yay! It was hard to find it because the store I usually go to changed its name and I couldn't find it in the phone book... But then I thought "Fuck it! If they don't have A Band In Hope then they shouldn't be calling themselves a record store!" So then I got there and all the new releases were in a totally different area. So I walked around for like 15 minutes... and I started to freak out. But then I found A Band In Hope.
It's amazing. Jeeze. Clouds Crash is my new favorite song.
WOW.
how surreal to see you boys in such a commercial, everyday environment, with Avril Lavigne squeaking away in the background.
I don't own the CD yet. Just to make up for it, I'll pick up a second copy when it comes out and give it away to a friend/seemingly approachable stranger. Then I'll help to put out the next flaming orphanage I see, just to chalk up some more karma.
Congrats on the album release and the video!
I love the new album, it is amazing! i was expecting great things but you guys totally exceeded my expectations. great job guys!
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I bought the album yesterday, and I must say, it is even more fantastic in stereo. I've been waiting until the official release date to write my official review, but I procrastinated...so it will be written tonight. I'll be putting it on this blog...just in case you'd like to read it.
Congratulations again for putting out such a wonderful album, and please pass on my birthday wishes to Justin.
So I went to HMV yesterday to buy A Band In Hope, and it was right out front under the new releases. I was expecting it to be under The Matches section, since they ususally only put the top 20 stuff under new releases, but there it was. :) So, congrats! Anyway, the cd is amazing! I absolutely love it.
That is why Matt Whalen is my favorite.
I'm still waiting for my copy in the mail...
It's killing me.
I come home, I run to the mailbox...
Then BAM!...not there.
Rather depressing.
I haven't been shopping yet but I'm sure it's sold at Best Buy here because it was the only store that carried E. Von Dahl Killed The Locals and Decomposer. So, if I don't get the pre-ordered copy with the t-shirt soon... I'm going to go to Best Buy. =^]
I'm dying to hear it though.
Your laugh was GREAT. >.< I laugh like that too. Rather embarrassing when you're laughing at something horribly inappropriate... like how something horrible happened... >.> not that I've ever laughed at anything like that...<.<
And, just to point out... Matt smiled. =^]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!! How awesome it must be that the album came out just in time for you to buy him it for his birthday! ;^]
oh yes...please give my birthday wishes to justin. you guys dont know how much you make me smile. thank you so much.
So I went to best buy today, and i found out they don't know what good music sounds like because i found albums by 50 cent and "Danity Kane" in the new release section and when i asked if they had "A band in hope" the employee typed in "abaden hope", so I had to sound out the whole thing for him and the only best buy that had the 2 copies I wanted was miles away. I'll try to find another store before I have to order both copies online
so, i live in bismarck, north dakota. we are extremely deprived when it come to good music. so i was not suprised when i could not find your cd yesterday. after verbally attacking the people at target i remembered that we just got a best buy. after rushing to the store i fruitlessly searched the "m"s for your cd and after coming up empty handed i proceeded to verbally abuse them as well. don't worry though, i didn't give up. they assured me that they had one in the store because it was in their system. i eventually found it stuck in the middle of a stack of matisyahu cds. not where i expected it to be but i was happy to see it nonetheless.
that long rant aside, thanks for this album, it is amazing. now if i could just see you guys in concert i would be golden.
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*Enter long story of how I desperately searched for hours to no avail, until finally.........I found a house made of candy!* oh wait.... no...I'll be buying it directly from you guys on tuesday.
Fuck.
Now I want candy.
Most def loved the video...the new cd is dope (ouch for lack of any better word). Im hoping this pulls in loads of money Shawn so we can have that romantic getaway I always planned *wink*
" if you won’t buy your own record, who will"
Pffftt, silly Shawn
Everyone will want to buy this album
I am still awaiting my beloved Matches package from Loserkids.
I hope it comes in today. I'd like to listen to it on my bus ride home from college.
Tell Matt, Mom is ecstatic over her drumsticks and won't shut the hell up about how much she loves them and him and everything in between.
And tell dear, sweet Chris that I had some sort of fun last night and I'm here is he ever needs me!
-AS
funny, I went to my local Best Buy day of the release and they informed me that A Band in Hope won't make it to their store until APRIL. I went home and sadly bought the album off of iTunes. BRILLIANTLY FANTASTIC ALBUM, mind you. I'm more excited to pick up a hard copy of my own even more.
So, I walked into my (the)local(s, heh) FYE and looked to the left. Bam! It was there. One of the most exciting moments of my life, only surpassed by actually listening to the CD.
This cd is amazingfantasticwonderfuloneofthebestthingsI'veeverheard. Grr, I wish I could think of strong enough adjectives to describe the mindblowingness of this CD.
If you havn't gotten this CD get it NOW or else I will come to your bedside while you sleep and slowly kil-...I mean...not very good things will happen. Just get the CD.
I cannot find the new album anywhere! I checked Borders, FYE... hell, I even took a trip to the Haight to check Amoeba. Everyone keeps telling me how "omg the Matches are so popular now", so where is it?
clearly rochester sucks. i went to buy 2 copies on tuesday (one for me and one for my friend) and they only had 1 copy. being the nice friend i am, i gave it to her, but now i dont have one. and i've checked yesterday and today and still not another copy is available. boo.
I got the shirt pre-order today, and my mother found the shrink wrap sticker quite humorous when she read it. I haven't stopped listening to this album since i got it. The hidden track is so funny!
i got a hard copy and an itunes copy. im quite happy with my purchases. strong album fellas, im really enjoying it.
I love Matt Whalen.
& I love Vampire Weekend.
But above all... I love you guys the most.. :)
aww.
p.s. Yes, I bought a copy.
The new cd is great! I'm so sad I didnt see you guys when you were in Phoenix. Had tests to study for though.
The new record seems to be channeling Queen to me. And from what I've heard from friends, its going over very well.
Well, at least Whalen is buying a GOOD cd!
Went to Best Buy, they had 2 left so I bought them. I also pre-ordered it to get a shirt aswell.
I just felt bad for downloading it wayy to early, I think this makes up for ittt.
I'm totally bummed that I missed you guys in vegas, yet again, because this time I had to fly out on the same day of your show to attend a funeral. Buuutttt, on a really cool note, when i went to buy your cd before I left the guy at the counter said that was like "the billionth" one he had seen that day. Kudos to you guys!
Got mine on Tuesday at HMV:)
I even went on the Saturday before to make sure they would get it.
Completely worth the $19.20 it cost me.
I'm pretty sure they only stock one at a time though cause when I went, I got the only one and I went back on Wednesday so I could show my friends and they still only had one (which I moved to the 'punk' display so everyone could see it;])
I got mine on saturday from JB Hi Fi and there was at least 10 copies on display, i was quite surprised as they don't usually put out that many at a time. they weren't even all under the Matches, there was this abandoned pile sitting on top other cds for seemingly no reason.
i chose my cd based on the sole fact the jacket had been put in sideways and then had the shrink wrap put on
i thought i was getting something special
turns out it was just a runt
FUNNY ViDE0 BUT WHERE'S JUSTiN AT?
I got home yesterday and it was sitting on my table in a bag.
I started jumping for joy. I tried on the shirt (I got it a size to big... I hope it shrinks) and laughed at the tag. Then I put in the cd and danced the night away...
Ok, so I danced until Yankee In The Chip Shop, then I put it on repeat and did everything I needed to do while screaming the words... =^]
Just so you know... I'm speechless. It's to amazing to put into words. Sure, there is the internet version... but the hard copy cd is so much better. I've been trying to find the words since I listened and can't.
I'm impressed.
I just got my preorder today! YAY! Now I have two copies of the CD. I'll give one to a friend and force them to listen to it.
vampire weekend and still matt whalen. two of my favorite things.
way to kill it by laughing shawn.
I just got your album and it was the best Easter present I've ever got!!!!Your new album is the shit keep it up....oh yeah *Happy Easter*
oh my oh my.
i bought the album the day it was released.
and then put it on repeat until all the words jumbled in my head and i was answering everything with lyrics from it.
quite hard to do, mind you.
i love it though.
future tense, ftw.
waaaa... i'm sorry for downloading the leaked version!
the only possible way for me to buy an album is a plane ride to wherever that is! i guess i'll start saving today and probably arrive there within a year or three. plane tickets are hard to buy these days(that is if you live in a place where no one else knows the greatness of The Matches because they're too busy crying in one corner of the room or they're too busy doing the soulja boy - spellcheck!)
well 'til then, i'd live a normal life doing my daily routine. but when i get my hands on that leprechaun on the other side of the rainbow guarding a pot of the matches merchandise, i'd still live a normal life. the only difference would be - DeadAtDream Is OWNING! ^_^
oh and i will do some good deeds! hope indeed!
You can’t imagine my joy when I found out that CDON has your record. And how I cringed when I remember I’d made a promise: “If I find a store that sells A Band In Hope I swear I’ll effin’ buy seven copies!”
I’ll keep my word though.
One record for me, one for my lil’ bro (just because he coughed up his last money so he could join me on the trip from Sweden to London to go to your concert there), one for my mom (who has been nagging about getting one endlessly) and the rest I’ll just give to friends. Because, honestly, I could never find better birthday presents for them, right? ^-^
I guess that that, combined with flying to London just to see you guys play and buying a t-shirt, makes up for downloading the leaked version? I sure hope so because I’m very, very broke now. Don’t worry, it’s worth it. (And I’ll get more money soon anyway.) = ]
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I like my options.
Happy Easter. <3
Happy Easter!!!
I got Rockband... and a few gag gifts that are really cute ducks. =^]
I think they should come out with a Rockband 2... with The Matches on it...
Then I'd enjoy it a thousand times more! =^D
I think the laughing made it wonderful.
Shawn! I bear the gift of knowledge of the elusive Holch!
HOLCH
P.S.
Can I have Jon's soap now?
P.S.S.
Wikipedia just rejected the holch page.
But Encyclopedia Dramatica welcomes all kinds of knowledge.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Holch
I finally dragged myself to the local music hole to purchase A Band in Hope. I gave it to my mother who quickly exploded with excitement. It has been on constant rotation in her car since. You guys are still as brilliant as you were the first time I saw you. I'll be there whenever you enter the state of neck-hair. Texas welcomes you. Even if it took a long time for a scene to grow. Your fans are here. You belong.
P.S.S.S.
damnit. Encyclopedia Dramatica has also rejected holch.
Well at least you can still see the screenshot link up in the first post. >.>
try urban dictionary... You can literally post anything there, and I believe it would be a great place to hold the knowledge of the Holch
I feel a bit guilty... I was unable to purchase the Album on the release date. I came very close to downloading the thing. But I stood my ground and waited until I arrived back in the States. It was well worth it. I got shivers letting the music surround me in the car on the way home. In the past three hours I have used the album to recruit two more fans.
I just thought I would let you know that I have been a follower since the early E. Von Dahl days(which is rather odd considering I am very selective when it comes to current music). You all never cease to amaze me, whether it be clever music videos or extraordinary music.
Well anyways the diversity of this album reinforces my respect for you and makes me proud to call myself a The Matches fan.
Though you may not even read this, I hope you know of the impact you have made on my own and many others' lives.
Thanks for the sounds.
Sincerely,
Just another one of your fans
Have you ever considered writing a musical?
Shawn, Please Read
I was just curious if I could use clips from most, if not all the tracks off of A Band in Hope in a short film I have to do for school. I am in a high school video creation class and My final is coming up soon. A main rule is I can not use music that I don't have permission to.
You see, I just listened to the album completely focusing on the lyrics and saw a story go on in my head. I would love to make it for my final.
This video would only be seen by my friends that would be working on it, my parents, and my teacher. It would NOT go on you tube or anything of the sort.
So what I am asking is: Is there any way you can agree to not sue me for using your music?
I know this is a long shot but I thought it would not hurt to try.
If yes
ledanswer@gmail.com
(And could you post yes on the blog so I know its not someone screwing with me.)
I love the Urban Dictionary. It has taught me so much that I can incorporate into a joke. Haha. =^]
Mr. Harris, your album is genius. I actually wrote a blog about it which is a bit embarrassing, but if you should like to check it out, you can!
Go listen to a new interview with Shawn on Chucow Radio's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/chucowradio
You're a goddamn natural speaking Swedish, Shawn.
shawn you are the man I have just discovered the cd's secret. "praise musburger" it said "gold record voodoo voodoo" it said. Very sneaky putting secret messages on the inside spine of your album but i love it and it was my favorite cd before but now it is even more so.
Sitting next to Jon while you guys played the acoustic set in Pomona, I was wondering: at what point do you stop being a regular person and become an actual "celebrity"?
It's sadly pathetic that celebrities (the Matches) have the uncanny ability to reduce perfectly normal people (me) into groveling, soma-drugged fools.
I'd hate it if feet become too big for shoes and gates are set up to keep fans back though.
But perhaps I'll just be another [person] you'll never speak to, never meet.
i love all these stories of peoples' mothers loving the cd the same if not more then the actual people posting about it
got my two copies of the cd in the mail today :)
sarahtonin get on that posting of "holch"
haha, I think your entry may be better than one I come up with. Otherwise I can copy and paste yours. (I've been extremely bored lately, and I'll do it if you want)
I went out and got your CD (the actual, tangible compact disk foreign to so many), and I thought I needed to tell you that it is amazing. Seriously. With a solid album like this and such a catchy single, there's no reason you guys won't be huge. Between Halloweens is probably my favorite song on the album right now, and the chorus really hits me hard . I thought you couldn't get any better than you guys were on Decomposer, but now a new bar is set, lol. Keep making good music!!!
I had a store associate find it at best buy for me.
It was on the cart thing.
the record is fantastic.
It's better than fantastic, it's phenomenal..no no..
it's..well, what's better than phenomenal?
oh yeah, A Band in Hope is.
hahaha welllll I submitted an entry to urban dictionary much like the one I submitted to wikipedia just worded a bit differently. I suppose I'll post here if it actually gets put up. I looked for your entry Charlotte but I guess it hasn't been approved yet either. I wonder if all of these sharing info sites are trying to keep the holch under wraps, and that's why they aren't allowing it to the public. >.> <.< >.> <.<
I'm ADD...
And I realized today that your cds are the ONLY cds I can sit and list all the way through without skipping one song or pressing "random" on my player...
That is a compliment. =^]
My friend is the SAME exact way...but worse. It's impressive if she can get through a whole song. And she can listen to EVERY song ALL the way through. =^D
I'm bringing her with me to the AP concert. =^D
I'm sorry Decomposer didn't do as well as you guys had hoped.
A Band In Hope is great, but Decomposer will always have my heart.
hey shawn,
just showing some love. this cd could not be better. it really couldnt. i play it in heavy rotation at parties and other times at my fraternity and everybody loves the shit out of it
without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
sorry for saying this so late but I bought the cd the day it came out and it was awesome. love it. wake the sun video is awesome too... =) you boys are awesome! wow too many 'awesomes' in that comment....
p.s. forgive me for not being able to make it to your show in AZ? Please? I feel horrible--first one I've missed....definitely will be there next time!! =)
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I just wanted to say your show in Seattle was the best I've ever been to (not just the Matches, I mean best show of my life), and I am so so greatful for it.
So thank you.
I wish you guys could have stayed to chat but I understand you had a plane to catch. Good look on the rest of the tour.
today is technically the last day for yankee in a chip shop to come out and for oxen to be right with its march 2008 announcement
That anonymous person was right... =^]
That little picture is teasing me... taunting...
We repect and love you but seriously... hurry up =^P
So now it is almost two days after March and no Yankees in sight...
Shawn-first off, thanks for the show in Salt Lake, I really needed it. Second, where is Yankees? If you keep taunting us like this with videos, we're going to stop believing you. Just please give us some news on it, please. Don't leave us hanging on a thread. thanks
The video for Yankee is finished (maybe something still needs to be added, or that's already taken care of, it was a few weeks ago Shawn showed it to me). However, the video is effing brilliant, and remember; "den som väntar på något gott väntar aldrig för länge". Which basically means that good things come to those who wait.
So, what happened to the SPIN bookclub?
yes the book club
and what happened to the video with red light induced ramblings advertising the book club?
=( i checked hmv...not there...i checked best buy... not there... i checked futureshop.... not there alsjofwiiofjwaoiefwjaofj AHHHHH now i have to wait an agonizing two weeks for the import to arrive (dam you !! :P
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