Virgil Dickerson
Virgil Dickerson has been running Suburban Home Records, a small, independent record label based in Denver, Colorado for the past 12 years. It started as a fanzine in September of 1995 and has become a label, a distributor, a vinyl imprint and store, a custom t-shirt company and this blog about the music industry. He remains optimistic about the future of music sales although it is tougher now than it has ever been trying to sell a product people actively get for free. Suburban Home's bands include Drag the River, Tim Barry, Love Me Destroyer, On Guard, Ghost Buffalo, Josh Small, Stereotyperider, Two Cow Garage and Adventures of Jet.
Email | Suburban Home Records
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Sean Klassen
Sean Klassen has found his lot in life through playing guitar in struggling indie bands for over ten years now, currently playing in tongue-in-cheek heavy metal band Dartanian. Through playing music he discovered the art of graphic design and now spends much of his time designing various records, cds, posters and websites for a wide variety of clients ranging from local bands to international brands such as Universal Pictures and Audi. Sean currently pays his bills working as an Art Director at Factory Design Labs in Denver. He also enjoys wearing argyle socks and playing hockey. Feel free to direct any technical or website related comments or problems his way.
Email | Design Portfolio
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Bill Wilson
Bill Wilson founded the NY based indie, Blackout! Records while a college student at Fordham University in 1989. In it's 18 year history, the label (and sub-imprints) has released music from a diverse roster of bands, including Crime In Stereo, Deadguy, Ensign, Guided By Voices, H2O, Killing Time, Kill Your Idols, and Sheer Terror. He also has held positions as a Product Manager at RED; Distribution Marketing Manager at Caroline Distribution; and General Manager of Earache Records. Since 2001 he has worked in digital media and social networking, and is currently employed by a big ol' multinational media company in their mobile entertainment division.
Email | Blackout! Records
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On July 18th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Jordan Pastepunk said:
After thrashing through two Dell notebooks in law school, and one bungled by Dell mail-order rebate (shocker), I swore them off for good. I ended up purchasing a fairly simple and very light notebook from Gateway and it’s been without problems for 2.5 years now, go figure. It’s kind of ironic that Dell’s commodification of the PC is what has come to bite them back as people are not willing to deal with their customer service and figure they can buy a just as good, if not better machine or peripheral elsewhere.
On July 18th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Manish said:
My Dell laptop’s motherboard busted and I sent it in to get serviced by dell ’s hardware which was a trial in itself. I called up saying that I had a hardware issue and my laptop would not power on. So I get asked the next logical question. “Please turn on the computer and tell me if you can see the Dell logo” I was like this is going to be a long fucking fight. After about an hour they figured out that the laptop didn’t turn on and that it was a hardware issue. Before sending it there was instructions to remove the hard drive and put it in the box with the laptop. I did so
I called to see what the status was and they said that they shipped it to my home in CT and not my address in San Fransico.. ok that’s still not too bad because I was going back to CT later that week so I could pick it up.. no big deal ….. yet. They sent it there because that was the original purchase address. So therefore if you move, good luck trying to get your computer back.
I called my dad to see if he had gotten it and to see if he can power it up. He said that the system can not find a hard drive. I ask him to check the box for the hard drive and guess what IT ISN’T FUCKING THERE… so I ended up losing basically my pictures any recent documents I was working on anything that I recently downloaded music/video wise etc. And Dell’s response to this was no one said to take the hard drive out of the computer before shipping it. Needless to say I bought a Macbook and am working a lot better with no problems
On July 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am
dell hell said:
You’re in Dell Hell, baby….
http://www.thisistrue.com/dellhell.html
On July 19th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Sean Klassen said:
having worked on a few client projects for dell, i would definitely never purchase one of their products. that company is a corporate mess… their whole business model is to be the cheapest solution and when you go that route you definitely sacrifice quality. i’m a firm believer in you get what you pay for. and not to be a total apple fanboy, but their customer service has always been amazing for me. one time i had to bring in my power book because of a ram issue, found out my warranty had ran out a few weeks earlier, but they still took it in and fixed everything for free.
On July 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Adam said:
Go to www.consumerist.com and complain to them. They’ll post it and you just might get some action.
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