Question For Anyone Who's Navigated Despair Faction In Recent Years

Like a lot of us, I've had a DF card for well over a decade, participated and had an active account on the forum forever, and even got the 20 year box a few years ago (with another card). Yet, for some reason I wasn't still a DF member? Lol, k. Went in a few months ago, and really had no idea what was going on with linking Discord and other stuff and tried to figure out how to look around and was... just confused and didn't care enough to figure it out.

With the DU 20 year stuff coming out, I was gonna get the vinyl reissue from the band site with the 7" insert. And since their shipping price is outrageous, figured I'd get another DU thing since I'm already in it deep for shipping.

So, question is: since I'm spending money on their site, on DF it says you get points by going to shows, merch purchases, and idk wtf else. I rarely buy from their site bc of aforementioned annoyance with shipping cost, so can you somehow link your purchases through DF? When I was confused a few months ago I just rage quit. But since I'm actually going to buy something, I figured I'd check in and see if there's anything of value to figuring it out.

TIA. If it's just a crock, lmk and I'm cool with that. Band's got enough of my coin over the decades.