For the past year, Polyvinyl has been working to make sure fans who pre-ordered the Bandbox pressings of Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five and/or The Age of Octeen would receive their vinyl following Bandbox's declaration of bankruptcy. Unfortunately, we were unable to reach an agreement with the company that bought Bandbox and are now handling this ourselves.
The pressings of Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five and The Age of Octeen are in hand and ready to ship! Please allow us a few days to process your submission.
If you ordered one of these records, please fill out the form below.
Polyvinyl was unable to produce a jacket with Divot Records' original Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five cover and instead used the blue cover from the 2010 reissue, designed to emulate the screen printed cover initially created for the release in 1995. The album was pressed on Transparent Marbled Blue vinyl rather than the Transparent Yellow with Green Splatter vinyl to better complement this cover. The Age of Octeen was pressed on Transparent Green with Multicolor Splatter vinyl as previously planned.
Polyvinyl will not be able to provide the bonus Rainsnowmatch 7" to fans who ordered both albums or the Braid zine that was planned to accompany both records, as Bandbox had not completed the zine before they filed for bankruptcy.
Thank you very much for your patience during this process.