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Is there a possibility to sticky some thread/post with the preorder infos? This thread is kinda laborious way of finding these out.

I've edited the first post with the links. Stickying might be overdoing it since there's already 6 threads up there.

Not to mention folks will post in here til it becomes irrelevant.

CM's bundle seems like kind of a gyp. Don't have a turntable so the 7" does me no good, and it's just tracks off the albums (though I assume the one from Ghost is a heavily edited down single version). And only four downloadable tracks, two of which have already been made available? Pass.

Canceled my order with CM (well, unless they reply with, "Eat a dick—we're not canceling"). Gonna just order the Deconstruction/Ghost bundle from Amazon. Fifteen bucks cheaper.

That's what they call the next thing up from a trilogy, so I guess it makes sense.

Quadrilogy isn't a real word.

Yeah, the proper term is "Tetralogy"

i don't care what's proper, i still prefer quadrilogy cuz i'm used to it.

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CM's bundle seems like kind of a gyp. Don't have a turntable so the 7" does me no good, and it's just tracks off the albums (though I assume the one from Ghost is a heavily edited down single version). And only four downloadable tracks, two of which have already been made available? Pass.

Canceled my order with CM (well, unless they reply with, "Eat a dick—we're not canceling"). Gonna just order the Deconstruction/Ghost bundle from Amazon. Fifteen bucks cheaper.

The non-shirt bundle does seem to be a bit off, but oh well.

I hope the shirt is the international shirt, because that's the only Decon shirt I really have any interest in (no offense to lovers of purple/mini hooded devy). I'll likely pick up a ghost shirt at the gig in June, and if they have either of the awesome british Ki ones, as well.

Coulda sworn Amazon.com had a listing for a 2-CD bundle. Either the info changed or I've gone loopy. More than likely I saw the 2-CD set on Amazon.co.uk and assumed that the special edition of Deconstruction on Amazon.com was the same thing. So, keeping my CM order...I guess. Maybe I should have exhibited some patience and waited till things are less foggy. ;) Hopefully CM read both of my emails instead of just the first one, cancel the order, read the second, and go, "OH, FUCK, YA SONOVABITCH!"

Now it raises the question: If this isn't the 2-CD bundle (it only lists one disc and no mention of Ghost), then what the hell is it? What kinda special goodies does it contain and will orders through CM contain this version? :o

CMDistro wrote:
PLEASE NOTE - THIS ITEM WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL PURCHASE USING PAYPAL UNTIL 5/21/2011

Does that mean us Europeans can use our credit cards now instead? Or do we really have to wait until Saturday before we can order anything?
1. for paypal outside the US you have to wait till 21st.

I received an email from CMDistro today telling me that Paypal is the only payment option for international orders - so to order from CMDistro you have to wait until 20th May.

In other news, YAY! Insideout Shop worked perfectly!!! Now, I wait

So for other impatient people wanting to place an "international" order: Clicky

It takes credit card/paypal/whatever now

Does anyone else understand why this has to be so confusing? I mean, come on. One company selling one thing of preorder options is fine, I don't need fifteen different choices. And as for CM Distro, gotta say pretty disappointed in it. They've had months to get their shit together and the preorder goes online and there's no pictures, the preorder changes from Ghost 2 to four songs, etc. When you put a product up online it should finished so I know what I'm purchasing. That's just professionalism, and it makes CM Distro look incredibly unprofessional that, to me, close to nothing was ready when they posted it. Frankly, its bullshit, and based on that I honestly think I'll be going with O Merch just because they had their shit together when they posted their pre order. I know Dev has nothing to do with this so I don't even come close to blaming him but CM Distro just seems like a bunch of idiots. I remember the Addicted preorder too that took years to get online. No bueno, CM Distro.

Well, CM Distro and InsideOut work together, one handling US and the other Europe. So really there are only two pre-order options: CM and O merch in US, or InsideOut and O merch for Europe. Unless of course you feel like ordering the same exact thing from InsideOut and CM, plus or minus the Ghost 2 tracks.

Ahhh so happy with my Ghost (blue) shirt! Can't wait to have it! None of the Deconstruction shirts really appeal to me :/ I'd buy the purple shirt if I thought I could pull off the colour.

Ahhh so happy with my Ghost (blue) shirt! Can't wait to have it! None of the Deconstruction shirts really appeal to me :/ I'd buy the purple shirt if I thought I could pull off the colour.

Can't say I've met a single person who couldn't pull off purple, personally.

I have faith you could manage it lol

But then, I might only be saying that to help justify me buying it?

I went ahead and ordered from CM, after reading the some posts, I don't really think that was such a good idea.

I'm not too sure, I assumed the packages from both InsideOut and CM are the same so I saw the picture of the shirt on InsideOut and got sucked into getting it because it looked pretty sick. Yes, I'm a sucker like that.

The shirts on Omerch look pretty cool too but the one on InsideOut was pretty much what I envisioned what a Decon shirt would look like, so yeah, CM better get their hands out of their asses.

CMDistro has always been awesome for me. Some people these days will simply never be satisfied.

I just wish the bundle included two individual CDs, not Ghost and Deconstruction in one jewelcase. That's what 2CD implies, anyway, and if it is just one jewelcase, I'm assuming there will be less artwork and such.

Does anyone know more about this?

I screwed myself into ordering the Ultimate Bundle (with the 7" vinyl and t-shirt) by not knowing that there was a Special Bundle (same thing only no t-shirt) that was $17 cheaper. I don't really care for a t-shirt; even though the design is cool I'm too old to wear a "rock t-shirt" (IMO).

But it's too much trouble to cancel with CM, so I guess I'll just stick with what I've got coming (which makes me feel bad for rewarding bad behavior, as I'm sure that's why they make it so hard to cancel an order). I'd feel better about it if I knew Dev will get a big chunk of that extra $17...

I just wish the bundle included two individual CDs, not Ghost and Deconstruction in one jewelcase. That's what 2CD implies, anyway, and if it is just one jewelcase, I'm assuming there will be less artwork and such.

Does anyone know more about this?

If you look at the one they have on InsideOut.DE, it looks like the bundle includes two individual jewel-case-inside-a-slipcover CDs with a wrap-around, so we should be getting everything you would get by ordering the discs individually.

DTPCDBundleShop.jpg

This also makes sense from a manufacturing and costs perspective, why go through having to manufacture and print new artwork and covers and all when you can just grab one copy of Decon, one copy of Ghost, and slip them into a sleeve...

Amazon.co.uk lists the CM 2-CD bundle with that picture, so I'm sure that's what we're getting (unless Amazon and a bunch of other sites are just jumping the gun).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calm-Storm-Devi ... 081&sr=8-8