Victory Records

I’ve had the best experience placing an online order with them. It was Super quick and easy and I got my order 5 days within placing the order. Such good quality and I love that after all these years they still give you samplers and stickers. Super satisfied.

Victory Records is the largest indie label out there! Even though I may not be a fan of all of there artists or majority of them, but i get it. Over the past few decades they have employed alot people from local punk, indie or hardcore labels in there staffing and have built an empire behind it.
Besides just being a huge label and an internal distribution center for smaller indie labels, Victory also prints merchandise for bands or anyone not part of the company. the prices are super cheap and fair and it’s quick turnaround! Sometimes i had to go back the following day to get the full order or so as it was a missing an item or two but they are great about fixing the mistake /​miscommunication.
A+ for quality and service.

My review is based solely on my web store experience. I apologize in advance if this is the wrong venue for my review of that part of the business. Now, i ordered a shirt for my sister for christmas. a bayside shirt. Immediately after placing the order, before it even had a chance to be processed i realized that on my billing/​shipping zip i was off by one digit. I changed it right then and there. i called the number on the website and got voicemail. i left one explaining what happened. never got a call back, however the zip was changed in time for my card to be charged correctly, but upon checking the tracking days later (and very close to x-​mas) the tracking showed it was «returned to sender». I called the post office and fed ex just to be sure and was told it was already on its way back. i was disappointed it would not get to my sister in time for x-​mas but i took responsibility as it was originally my mistake. I called victory back and the woman who i left a voicemail for answered and i explained what happened. Before i could even mention that i already KNEW it was because i had typed in the wrong zip she got defensive and rudely transferred me over to warehouse as she did not want to deal with the issue (even though she never returned my call and this all could have been avoided.) The warehouse guy was AWESOME. He was understanding and helpful and asked his manager to have another shipped immediately with no charge to me. i was thrilled. then… the shirt was out of stock. nobody’s fault though, i get that those kind of things happen. They had another shirt she wanted in stock so we settled for that. Now, i ended up receiving both shirts. i don’t know how that happened or if the warehouse guy did me a favor or what, but now, because i have the worst luck… the shirts didn’t fit my sister. so now. she calls and gets the same lady and she very unenthusiastically tells my sister to box them up… pay for the shipping… send the correct size info and they will charge the cardholder for the return. wow. Being that I am the cardholder i would appreciate either being notified or at least asked for my permission before charging me more money. I am now uncomfortable that there is nowhere online for me to edit my card info yet they can access it. I told my sister she could send the shirts back and i will gladly pay for shipping but who knows if they will ask ME if they can charge me or not. I have mixed feelings. the warehouse guy was so helpful yet this woman just screams poor customer service and makes me want to never order another item from them again. which, honestly, i will not.

Not only are they a record label but they also print t-​shirts. I had an idea for a shirt sent a pic and in three days I had shirts in bulk. Reliable, fast and reasonably priced. You can’t find a better shirt printing place in Chicago. Ask for Manny, he rocks!

Ok, this is my lame review. I mean lame in the respect where i review a Hardcore record label and goo and gah over them. My logic? Twofold. They are a bidness and ive given them shitloads of money. I fell in love with Victory coutesy of a sampler (Not the Whitman’s kind) back in da 90’s. You know how when you crank out a fart, it scares your cat and their ears go back on their head and their eyes get wide, and theyre all like «What the fuck was that? No wait… Seriosuly, dude… did you hear that?» Thats how i was the first time i listened to it all the way through riding home from a Bloodlet show in Albany NY in my trusty VW GTi (RIP). I had seen the bands, but could never find recorded material. Victory basically put the biggest HC names on the map, Strife, Snapcase, Bloodlet, and Earth Crisis and helped get other bands like Hatebreed and Atreyu (ick) on the map. I grew up on Roger Miret (Agnostic Front), 25 ta Life and the Gorilla Biscuits, Victory opened my ears and mind to some shit that helped evolve me into the perfect mental specimen i am today. Every year or so they crank out a sampler called Victory Style, and sell it major record stores for FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. If you be into \m/​etal or HC, do yourself and this perimount label a favor and shell out the lettuce for all of these, and listen to the evolution of quasi stream HC. Tell em Mick sent you for a free «I dont know who the fuck that is, but eh well, here is a cupcake» look.