Rules of Misconduct
click here for a simple step-by-step version
How do I get this wonderful stuff?
You send one of us blank discs and postage, we copy the discs and send them back to you. It's that simple. Here's a more detailed explanation of how it works.
First of all, you have to contact one of our distributors and submit to them the discs you'd like to order. We ask that you initially limit your order to five (5) items, any combination of CDs and/or DVDs. If the distributor is able to copy more for you, they will usually say so and you can make more picks after that before sending off the package. Of course, once you get your order back, you can immediately hit us up for another 5 items.
After this contact, you will be given an address to send to. This is what you need to include in
1) Appropriate number of blank discs
2) Money for return postage (in the form of cash or money order, personal checks will have to clear)
3) A note saying the discs you ordered and your return address.
We will burn the content onto the discs and re-use the package you sent to begin with. The reason we ask that you send your own blank discs for us to burn onto and use a package you feel safe with is to absolve us of liability. If you send us shoddy discs in a thin manilla envelope and we make copies onto those discs and send them back in that same package, you can't complain to us that your discs got fucked up, so we wouldn't have to make you new copies because we were not responsible for the damage. If you want top-quality copies, then send some discs with a long shelf life in a padded envelope.
We don't have a preference of brands of CDs or DVDs to burn onto. We just reccomend against Memorex CDs, which are notoriously crap media. Anything manufactured by Taiyo Yuden is generally considered the high benchmark, but Verbatim, Fuji and Sony are generally good brands.
One last thing here: PLEASE DO NOT SEND -RW DISCS OF ANY KIND! They take a while to burn and are generally irritating to deal with.
Please keep in mind that all of the distributors have lives apart from the Basement, so please be patient if your package isn't returned in only a few days.
I wanna help! I wanna help!
That's great! After all, if it wasn't for the help of a few generous spuds in the beginning, this wouldn't be here. There are two ways you can help. You can either set up a trade for something you want or you can donate.
If you want to trade, it will be 1:1 (you send one, we send one). However, if it is something rare that has recently surfaced, the ratio can be upped depending on what it is.
If you really don't see anything you want, but still want to donate, it's really your call. You can either just send us a copy or we'll send you some blanks and postage and then you'll send that back to us.
Of course, there is always the alternative of monetary donations. If you did decide to donate money, it will go to funding future DEVOtional and Basement backup media (hard drives, DVDs, etc)
Again, check out the contact page for info on how to get ahold of us.
One last thing - eBay
There's no real way we can prevent you from putting items you get from us on eBay, however, we strongly discourage it. We're providing a free service for those who wish to patronize it, we are not giving you free money-making tools. If we see any DEVO bootlegs available from this site on eBay, the keepers of this site and many members of the online DEVO community will warn anyone who bids on the item to retract their bids. In addition to that, we will also report your auctions to eBay multiple times to ensure that the powers that be know that you're illegally profiting from that which you did not create. Not to sound harsh, but this service is free for a reason.
If you see any eBay auctions with material that's available on this site, please contact one of the members of the site and let us know.