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Yeah, I ordered a couple of records off them and they tried making out that I never paid for them and didn't send them. Fuck them. I would even take bridge 9 over topshelf, because at least they released consistently good records at one point, whereas topshelf has been shit apart from a few records...

My sister once met up with kevin to make a trade. When she met up with him she asked if maybe he;d like to sign some hardcore bands to change it up. He spit in her hair and screamed "this is bawstin bitch" and pushed her to the ground. when i emailed him about the incident he told me to "stop being...

Lets talk about this label. I've had some email conversations with Kevin, who owns the label. He seemed like a real prick over email. I've never bought anything from the label, and I feel like for every band I like that is on the label there are 5 bands that I think are complete trash. What are you...

The super limited vinyl things that they do really rub me the wrong way. Creating super limited variants of popular band's records to create a feeding frenzy? Not cool in my mind. Also, they auctioned off a ton of these super limited pressings/test presses on eBay a few months ago to fund their lab...

Not only does topshelf destroy bands, they never send you the shit you order and when you try to contact them they never return your calls or e-mails. How do we destroy bands? That's a loaded statement. Dude, just email me? We respond to every order-related email we get. Definitely pretty bad at an...

The fact that they haven't seemed to do anything really interesting with it seems lame as fuck, just running on a trend until it's ultimate demise and the rise of another [trend]. They have a handful of good bands, but I feel it doesn't say anything about the bands choosing to go with that label. B...

But, for me personally the idea of not being to work with different labels would be strange. I'm not sure if this is how the "signing" process goes with topshelf (i'm just making this assumption based on their website having an "affiliated artists" section). Most of the bands we have worked with ha...

erick.affinity wrote:Top Shelf... I have heard nothing but horrible things about them as people and in regards to label practices. There are a few good bands "signed" to the label, but something just rubs me the wrong way about them

Please, go on.

Lets talk about this label. I've had some email conversations with Kevin, who owns the label. He seemed like a real prick over email. I've never bought anything from the label, and I feel like for every band I like that is on the label there are 5 bands that I think are complete trash. What are you...

Alright. Let's have some fun with this.