Thank You, Ben Affleck

I want to congratulate Ben Affleck for his casting as Batman. Personally, I believe he has his work cut out for him. But he's already uncovered how gullible and conformist people are. As soon as it was announced that he would be everyone's favorite vigilante, everyone went batshit crazy and took their turn bashing his performance (which had not been filmed, written, or probably even conceived.) Less than a week later, after a slew of famous and influential people gave their praise for the casting, everyone made a complete 180. And now a month later, everyone's acting like they've never had a problem with him being Batman. You're dumb.

  "You fapped to what I married." - Ben Affleck

Boycott Soul Temple Music: The Update

This is a response to this post: http://insanislupus.blogspot.com/2013/09/boycott-soul-temple-music.html


From the RZA:

"Although business is personal, when it comes to fans and consumers respect should be shown. So I'm publicly making these statements to fans...

There have been some bad staffing positions at the label which lead to some bad business. You fans have voiced your discontent so I will act.

We are removing Bob Perry from controlling the mail order dept and demoting him from president to Vp of A&R. He will retain his equity. 

For those who made orders that wasn't fulfilled our new staff will fill the orders or refund your money. Please send your names to our site

I will have a new email account for you fans who have not received your orders within 48hrs and have my l a office handle the matter.

These missed orders were not taken by me nor were they my responsibility but I hear your voices and I'm striving to remedy the matter....Soul Temple was an idea that's been with me for years. It was inspired by relationship with the great late Issac Hayes. We launched in 2012. I'm needing you to update your blog. 

Peace from the God"

I was then contacted by Ryan from Bandcamp:

"Dear Insanislupus,
Please accept our apologies for the trouble your fans had with their orders from Soul Temple. RZA has just posted some updates on the situation to his Facebook page.

We've reached out to Tam (RZA's new fulfillment person mentioned in the above posts) with a detailed list of all their customers still waiting for orders. If they've received what they ordered since the last time we corresponded, please let me know. Otherwise, please have them send a copy of their Bandcamp receipt to soultemppro@gmail.com, per Tam's instructions in the Facebook posts.

Again, apologies for the disappointing experience, and thank you for your patience,

Ryan 

P.S. Can you please update your blog with this information?"

Now combined with the efforts of the Facebook boycott, some of you people may be receiving your orders soon. Let me know. 

UPDATE

Boycott Soul Temple Music

I have to apologize for my recommendation. When Ghostface Killah released Twelve Reasons to Die, his latest album, I encouraged everyone to go and order it directly from RZA’s label, Soul Temple Music. Many were upset because it was delayed, but that was apparently due to the manufacturer. Eventually, I received my limited edition collector’s pack, an excellent deal and an awesome package. One record did have an additional label hanging, but easily peeled off, leaving the album unharmed. That was the only issue I had. Until now. 

The other day I was informed that there are hundreds (at least) of people who have not received orders they placed directly through the Soul Temple Music Bandcamp page. This included those who have never received their original order for 12R2D. I remember getting the pre-order emails for U-God and a few others well in advance of a release schedule. So far in advance that there is no way to dispute not getting it through PayPal (45 days), most banks (60 days), most credit cards (90). Status update emails apparently are never answered. Don’t get me wrong, you’d be partly to blame for actually spending money on one of U-God’s albums. He’s certainly the least recognizable, least skilled, least profitable, etc. of the Clan; I probably wouldn’t even download it for free.

Now you might think I’m being mean, and I admit that the truth hurts sometimes, but there’s no way Soul Temple Music doesn’t have entire skids of U-God’s album laying around. Maybe 100 bought it and they’re still waiting on it to ship? Please. I could see Ghost and RZA releases running out and needing to be repressed. But if you asked someone to name the members of Wu-Tang Clan, they’d give you every member, including Cappadonna, and still forget about U-God. This is the most anyone has ever written about him, so I’ll stop and get back to my point.

 U-God collapses after learning his first album

 finally went bronze ten years after release.

It doesn’t take that long to start up a small record label. Doesn’t take that many people to run it, either. There’s no reason why one person can’t print an order slip, pack the item in a box, tape it, and label it in one minute. That’s 60 an hour. In an 8 hour shift, with lunch and taking a few smoke breaks, you can crank out 400 a day, even if you’re lazy. That would take you 8 employees in 5 days to ship out the 15,000 units Ghostface sold the first week. He didn’t even sell a third of that the following week, so you could fire half of them and still make one get coffee, fetch lunches, wash your car, under-the-desk favors, whatever. 

RZA’s net worth is $18 Million. Ghostface Killah’s is $17 Million. U-God’s is less than yours. But it’s safe to say all the other Wu-Tang Clan members have more money than you. They made it off of us. None of these people cared you ordered and didn’t receive their album. People have been banned from their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts for simply asking where their orders are at. Soul Temple at least owe everyone a generic email response about how they’ve screwed everything up, repeatedly, and don’t know how to run a business. You’d have better results contacting the psychic Sylvia Browne and asking her if your package had shipped; she’d have better accuracy answering too.  

Boycott Soul Temple Music, RZA, Ghostface Killa, U-God, and anyone else that can’t make a simple phone call to help get the ball rolling. 

UPDATE