Anchors For Arms leaves Lobster Records

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by adam on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 3:00 PM (EDT)

Randolph, New Jersey's Anchors For Arms have announced their departure from Lobster Records :

We have left Lobster Records and we'll be recording and releasing our new record Remember Why You Came This Far on our own. For the sake of everyone involved, we don't want to get into the details of why but all we will say is we gave Steve more than enough opportunities to make this situation happen a smooth and fair one. A big thanks to Steve and past Lobster employees Kevin, Casey, John, Chunk and any one else who had a hand in helping us. In other news, things have obviously been running very slowly for us these past few months. Once we decided to do this record ourselves, we knew we needed to get the money to do so which is what we've been spending this time doing. The record is written and ready to go and we're super excited to get it out to you guys. Recording starts in a few weeks so get pumped!

The band released Listen. React last year.

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android (July 8, 2008)

Buck Wild "beat me silly" was a great release.

b0cephus (July 8, 2008)

Wonder whatever happened to Shawn Dewey?

android (July 8, 2008)

last thing I heard was that he joined Zero Down judt before Jim died.

Splendidtune (July 8, 2008)

This band fucking rocks, so underrated.

I_Rock_Hard (July 8, 2008)

All dickhead posts aside, here's a serious one. Steve from Lobster/Oort Records is ALMOST as much as a money hungry pig as Tony Brummel. I know from personal experience. Here's what went down. I managed to get ahold of his personal email address and sent him a message about my old band. Not only did he respond, but he was really, really into the music. We had been conversing back and fourth on the phone about possibly working together when he mentioned that Lobster records was in legal trouble because Steve agreed to work with Tony from Victory who apparently fucked Steve over. (Surprise, surprise.) So he started Oort records until the Lobster deal was fixed. He told me things like "the Oort contract is only ten pages long. you don't even have to have a lawyer look at it!" And "Your band is going to be booking most of the shows for touring, and you'll be buying your tour van and doing most of the promoting...... So is this something you're willing to drop out of college for?" I replied "Well, Steve, I mean no disrespect, but what exactly is it that Oort records will do for us that we couldn't do for ourselves? Since you said we are going to be doing most of the work and all."

His reply "I'm sorry, ____ but I'm going to have to end this conversation right now. Don't question me, that was very rude of you, blah blah blah."

*CLICK*

Want more proof? Rosematter, a band formerly on Lobster/Oort recently posted a video of themselves saying something along the lines of "Hey, where's that Lobster contract? .Oh, there it is." Then they grabbed a huge stack of papers and threw them in a fire. Not shortly after, they announced signing with some canadian label.

Steve is a douche bag.

weffjebster (July 8, 2008)

Aw man, the first rule of trolling is never act human.

ThomPunkAheaddotcom (July 8, 2008)

he probably read your posts on this site too and thought that you're a douche.

dlangl4 (July 8, 2008)

Wow. I am actually pretty impressed. It has never actually occured to me that an online troll would have the same personality in a serious post as he does in the troll posts. I mean, we all take it for granted that you've never said anything funny and that your sense of humor is about as refined as petrified bark, but to think that your troll personality is actually an accurate representation of your real personality is pretty interesting.

It's like thinking someone is a douche who is at least laughing at his own jokes, and then realizing that the person is a moron who is serious about what they say.

I_Rock_Hard (July 8, 2008)

...and on that note... FUCK YOU BITCH!

dlangl4 (July 8, 2008)

haha

I_Rock_Hard (July 8, 2008)

see? i'm funny.

ArtieFufkin (July 8, 2008)

in the words of I_Rock_Hard that i've seen on here way too many times - 'who gives a fuck!'

I_Rock_Hard (July 8, 2008)

I never said "who gives a fuck."

Holy shit, I had no idea that this many people knew who I was. And all this time I thought my bitching went unnoticed.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 8, 2008)

Odd that this person finally decides to make a real post and everyone lunges on them. I mean I get that their other posts may not inspire confidence or even respect but it kind of sucks that even their legit posts get shot up.
Eh well.
-Dante

scientistrock (July 8, 2008)

"Don't question me" for real? What a turd.

CANDYPATROL (July 8, 2008)

Get fucked you turdsicle. Nobody cares about your stupid life or your shitty second rate "band". I wish your father would have convinced your mommy to have you scraped out. I'm sure he tried. Oh yeah stop posting here. Troll.

Whew! That felt great, insulting people over the internet anonymously with bullshit remarks is so empowering. Now I get why you spend your time like this.

I_Rock_Hard (July 9, 2008)

Is that all you got, littledick?

LORDSHREDDER (July 8, 2008)

Never heard of these guys, but I do like the name.

baldsteve (July 8, 2008)

What the fuck are Robster Craws?

xcarlupanddiex (July 8, 2008)

is Lobster still releasing music ?

rorschach (July 8, 2008)

this band is awesome, and they're awesome guys. best of luck.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 8, 2008)

But without anchors how will the boat stop top catch those tasty lobsters?
-Dante