November 03, 2003
Drop Lift You Motherbitches
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EVER WAKE UP FEELING LIKE THIS?
Nothing to do but stare at the wall and hope your stomach doesn't explode from all the cheap malt liquor your drank the night before? Are you in a band and can't get your CD out?
You should be out DROPLIFTING then.
It's the process of fucking up record stores. You take a bunch of CDs you've burned and strategically place them inside giant, faceless megastores or even the local tiny one's. Burn a few CDs of totally sick music by GG ALLIN or just underground bands that would otherwise never have a chance of hell of getting their CD in there then DROPLIFT the bitches right in the Display racks.
All you need is a Burner, some cases, a colour printer to print out some BS covers/inserts and some fake plastic shit to cover it with.
But what about the barcode?
Grab any of your old CDs and scan in the old barcode and change it using this
The last digit is the checksum so a typical barcode looks like this:
6-50557-01312-3
The first part is the manufacturer ID #er and the second part is the release number. (it is the price on regular coupon barcodes) and the very last digit is the checksum (3 in this case). Make up your own barcode or just scan in one from your favourite local band and give them money when people try to buy your bunk bullshit ripped CD.
Side Note:
(At this point you can also make up your own Coupons. On a coupon the second part is the price of the discount, so let's say the barcode looks like this: 5-21000-23030-8. the 3030 means 0.30. it's doubled for some odd reason. Now go to the barcode generator and enter "52100027575?". It will calculate the new checksum for you. Go into Photoshop and change the barcode on the coupon you just scanned and guess what? 75cents off whatever. Find a bigger coupon for a dollar off and change it to 40dollars off.) [props to 2600 for that]
Take your CDs you made and drop them into the display racks right beside the Beyonce displays, or the 50cent CD promotion, or just file them into the regular mould with all the others. Bingo! Free Distribution. Mega Stores are so stupid when they try to scan the CD in and it doesn't work they'll just sell it anyways.
While your droplifting, have more fun in record stores by finding all the offensive shit like ANAL CUNT and THE MENTORS and placing those on the display racks as well. Or move the ANAL CUNT GREATEST HITS CD at Virgin Megastore to the Top 10 staff picks area. Good times!
The Droplift Project will actually mail you their CD to further their Droplifting propaganda. But why when you can make your own?
