I have communicated with the label for many mails already. He has made his point, which is most of all ok. So what is my point of posting online?
Well, sorry I didn't see the Thomas message about bad dubs. I didn't notice there is so many mails on this one while I was gone for weekend.
So, apologies for Destructive Industries for my carelessness of not seeing it. It looks like he has things under control.
What comes to defamation or "smear campaing", to put into perspective: it is a classified ad topic of a specific release and message comments it. I would not think public talk of specific product, its quality or experience is "defamation" or being asshole, even if it may be harsh? It can be only speculated would this have been corrected without someone asking about it in public.
What I can say about orders, I did get tapes very quickly from payment.
If Thomas feels like the messages should be erased and his warning about bad dubs is enough, it's possible to do.
But lets leave:
In case of labels, where NO public attempt to inform about situation has made, even when ARTIST has complained about quality of copies to such extent, they chose to send out free CDR's to buyers... why not?
Some say it is asshole behavior to address it public. Why? You see already on other forums were people ask if this release is "ferric" or "high-bias" tape, because they care about the quality. They are not just collecting, but it is really meant for LISTENING.
There are always topics about (old) Hospital tapes. Are dubs good or not. Is the packaging worth the price. If it seems, that quite big % of copies were fucked, and label know it, and chooses NOT to actively work on issue, I don't think I am the asshole by warning that 13$ investment may not be worth it? Even with the advertised "deluxe" packaging, which either is or isn't misleading. Whatever level you set for "deluxe" and idea of piling up many items on picture even if you just get one, heh..
If you are being told this is "rough 80's industrial", people may just settle on what they hear, without knowing it should be actually better. And I'm quite sure this is the case. Many of old PE label dubs are crappy. Think of many of Zero Cabal, Open Wound, Nihilistic Productions, perhaps OLD Filth & Violence... all those tapes used to have bad levels, uneven balances, etc. But should we now settle for it when correcting it is easy? If artists has complained, isn't that sign of something is fucked? If Militia says nothing, one could think this is just as good as best surviving master of their 80's live tape can be?
We see all the time online, someone tries to order from label X and either is being ripped off or gets bad dub. Then he cries. And says nobody told about it. And why not? Because people are busy being best buddies in expense of others. They keep telling how great this guy and label is, how good friends they are. And it doesn't matter, when there is small problem what seems like it isn't solved. Which in end, happens with expense of buyer.
I know Thomas is noise fanatic and supports the scene with his efforts to put out good tapes. And it wasn't his fault that dubbing company fucked. But bottom line remains: so what? Unfortunately reponsibilities of label goes further.
EDIT: and as pointed out by Sky Burial, indeed seems I missed the message just above what shows label is taking action, and by this of course proving to be better than many others who have failed to do so.
