RIP gigposters dot com?

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IWish
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Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:34 pm

I just hate that this has happened.
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Wed Jun 08, 2016 6:39 pm

My first Mondo purchase was through gig posters. Rhys Cooper's TMNT AP prints direct from Rhys. He advertised them on GP.
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Wed Jun 08, 2016 7:33 pm

I've just about put Billy Perkins' kids (if any) through college thanks to GP.
just a foil for me today, thanks
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Sun Jun 19, 2016 5:20 pm

veltri wrote:Got my first poster through a gigposters search and then contacting the artist. I liked searching for posters by band with those large thumbnails.

I also enjoyed your process thread, Crosshair. Justin Santora's too.
Thanks. It was fun rolling those out.
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Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:23 pm

This time of year is always the hardest. Ol' Tiny Geepee so did love Xmas.
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just a foil for me today, thanks
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HairyHood
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:40 am

There were posters over there that I have never seen anywhere else... Did the database over there just vaporize when the site went offline?
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:54 am

fredo wrote:This time of year is always the hardest. Ol' Tiny Geepee so did love Xmas.
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I miss that damned website so much. Just being able to blow hours looking through posters...I do appreciate that you used the RATT chat poster. So many funny memories. It felt awesome to meet Crosshairs this year and find out he talks as pretty in person!
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:04 am

HairyHood wrote:There were posters over there that I have never seen anywhere else... Did the database over there just vaporize when the site went offline?
no. from what I understand Clay backed it up before it went offline.
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Cragars
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 2:03 pm

I had the urge to mindlessly browse some gp's and then I remembered it was down. :(
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Thu Dec 22, 2016 4:59 pm

There was a website that had cached versions of gp you could peruse but it was so slow it wasn't worth the effort, at least the time I attempted to use it. Can't remember where I found it.
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Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:04 pm

electrachrome wrote:
HairyHood wrote:There were posters over there that I have never seen anywhere else... Did the database over there just vaporize when the site went offline?
no. from what I understand Clay backed it up before it went offline.
Is he gonna give it to ya'll or is he holding it for ransom?
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Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:11 pm

Codeblue wrote:Is he gonna give it to ya'll or is he holding it for ransom?
I reached out a couple times but never got a reply. I have a feeling a lot of people with an assortment of intentions tried to make a pitch and Clay's just gonna sit on it for a while. Just speculation. I have no idea what was going on personally/professionally/financially.
willg wrote:There was a website that had cached versions of gp you could peruse but it was so slow it wasn't worth the effort, at least the time I attempted to use it. Can't remember where I found it.
the way back machine on archive.org
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Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:37 pm

Thank you sir, that's it.
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Mon Jul 12, 2021 6:49 pm

Bump
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ygolohcysp
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Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:58 pm

Crazy how something created with countless man hours can just vaporize. I'm still salty my custom built myspace page got blasted
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