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Anyone else's Revolution Radio vinyl skipping?


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Finally got around to opening and testing my vinyl. No skips :wub:

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I emailed Green Day's customer support last Sunday and they responded on Monday saying they would get back to me when they had more information. Emailed again Tuesday, said they didn't have anything to update me on and haven't heard from them since. So I've got my skipping vinyl from their store and I don't know if they'll ever get back to me. Great.

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I only have a vinyl brush and I tried cleaning and it helped, after that it only skipped a little bit in Somewhere Now but that's because I just gave it a little clean because I wanted to ear the vinyl.

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I only tried Somewhere Now but it is really bad, popping and skipping. So disappointed. First vinyl I have ever had that is unplayable. Glad I saw this thread to give me a heads up. 

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I've been in this situation before. Epitaph had this happen to them when they repressed a bunch of nofx and bouncing souls records about 4-5 years ago.. Alot of people were complaining about skipping, but the reality is that if there not a physical scratch, its just a overly statically charged record from the pressing plant. Sometimes you get low charged records, sometimes you get a ridiculously charged record. I guess it depends on the plant and the general process. The charge believe it or not makes your stylus "stick" as it plays across the groove of the album and can cause it to stickto a given spot and jump...hence causing it to skip. In the case of Epitaph and RevRad, they're just highly charged (again aside from the physical damage if there is any on yours).

Everyone should check out Gruv Glide. As a record collector, I've been using Gruv Glide for years to destatic and cleanmy records ...this was no different. I played it once, Somewhere Now skipped. Right away I knew it needed to be "Gruv Glided" ...applied it, no skips at all. Buy it at Guitar Center or Amazon and see if it helps you guys...it may just solve your skipping problems

My FYE green copy didn't skip at all FYI. It could use it, but I didn't apply anything to that version. The Red version definitely needed it.

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I just got an email back from Warner. They said they're working on it, with no need to ship anything back. 

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Just heard back from customer service, they will be sending me a replacement soon. Hopefully this one won't skip on me this time!

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Got my replacement, tried it on my Mom's record player since her's has a counterbalance so I could adjust how much weight is on the record itself. Even with the adjustments Somewhere Now skipped as soon as the drums kicked in at the beginning and Bang Bang (for the first time for me) skipped all over. I'm not sure what to do now other than just deal with what I've got and enjoy the other 10 songs since they have no issues.

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This is why I miss cassette tapes. 

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My new RevRad is almost here, I didn't send anything back either #excited. I honestly won't play it until I have a record player worth a shit and get some gruve glide so I can antistatic the record

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UPS emailed me a few mins ago saying my replacement should arrive sometime between 2-6pm today

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WOW. :) I sent my BROKEN vinyl back two and a half weeks ago and got my money back today. Only - I didn't want my money back, I wanted REPLACEMENT. Because I wanted the fucking vinyl. Now I wanted to order it again and it's sold out. Fuck you. I'm SO mad.

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2 hours ago, Billie Hoe said:

WOW. :) I sent my BROKEN vinyl back two and a half weeks ago and got my money back today. Only - I didn't want my money back, I wanted REPLACEMENT. Because I wanted the fucking vinyl. Now I wanted to order it again and it's sold out. Fuck you. I'm SO mad.

Ok, now that's ridiculous. So sorry it happened! 
Did you send Warner a polite but angry email?

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Just now, Paola17 said:

Ok, now that's ridiculous. So sorry it happened! 
Did you send Warner a polite but angry email?

I wrote back something along the lines of "Great but I didn't want a refund but a replacement, now I can't get one, thanks for ruining my day" :ermm: I just hope that it will be on sale sometime soon again but since it said "limited" from the beginning, I doubt it :( This whole thing is so ridiculous. I checked amazon and people are already selling the used red vinyl for a 100 bucks. 

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I still haven't heard anything about mine. I got an email from them on Monday saying they are still waiting for a further update and will let me know as soon as they know. 

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got my replacement and now its just the first two tracks that skip as opposed to all 12 and the labels look perfect on this one lol 

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Got this email from the customer service 

 

Thank you for your patience with your Green Day Revolution Radio red vinyl.

We are currently awaiting further stock and we will update you by early next week as of when your replacement order will be shipped.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

 

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@luketrebilliemike I got the exact same email.  I wonder how 'further stock' works for a limited edition line?  TBH it's taken an insanely long time, and while it's great that progress has been made it's also really annoying that a) it's been so slow, b) it's even necessary in the first place and c) it seems that replacements also have the same problem.  It also puts collectors who don't listen to their vinyls in a really awkward position, since they have a limited edition, unopened vinyl that may or may not work, which could really affect their ability to sell it in future.

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What customer service email do I need to contact? 

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Just got an email saying my replacement vinyl is shipping today :dance:  Really hope it's not faulty too...

On 04/11/2016 at 3:01 PM, Todd said:

What customer service email do I need to contact? 

I contacted the email address on the invoice in the box with the vinyl, the one about returns (though obviously I bought mine from the European store, and I'm guessing yours came from the US one).

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5 hours ago, Second favourite son said:

Just got an email saying my replacement vinyl is shipping today :dance:  Really hope it's not faulty too...

I contacted the email address on the invoice in the box with the vinyl, the one about returns (though obviously I bought mine from the European store, and I'm guessing yours came from the US one).

Oh shit, I threw that out

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9 hours ago, Second favourite son said:

Just got an email saying my replacement vinyl is shipping today :dance:  Really hope it's not faulty too...

I contacted the email address on the invoice in the box with the vinyl, the one about returns (though obviously I bought mine from the European store, and I'm guessing yours came from the US one).

hopefully my replacement was a slight bit better after cleaning it only skips at the beginning part of Somewhere Now as opposed to the whole record (mine was skipping every song the label for side b looked like it'd been under heat)

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Got this email today:

Thanks for your patience whilst we looked into this for you. 

The item will be resent for you today, your order number is .

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the delay. 

Thanks,

 

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Got my replacement today 

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