Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

Matt M said:
It should be for that price. I can't find a way to spend $39 in credit without adding some cash to it. If they would just charge the right price for things and stop with the sales/deals/discounts that would be great.
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Agreed. I hate stores that do that. There's no reason to ever pay full price if everything is on sale, or will be on sale at some point. And then, they wonder why they can't move goods at full price? Just price it right the first time.
 
NewsFedora said:
There's a new "30th anniversary" pressing that came out this year that is probably the source of this variant. No reviews on discogs to say if it's anything better/worse than what's been out there for a while.
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Yeah the info could be copy and pasted but the mastering engineer is the same on the earlier 2022/23 pressings and the plants are the same too, probably just another repress.
 
Twentytwo said:
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Smash

The Offspring preserve the essential ingredients of their chosen genre--guitars grinding out three chords, shouted vocals, and plenty of vitriol--and layer them over a melodic base that packs considerable popular appeal. The 30th anniversary release of 'Smash' is exclusive to VMP and is limited...
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I do wonder if this was a possible Rock track selection as it would have fit in perfectly with what they were doing in that track?
 
Sundazed had an email newsletter that went out today and featured a question about what gets (re)released. In light of discussions here, I thought this part was interesting:
"A big hurdle with reissues is that the rights to an overwhelming majority of the master recordings are controlled by just a few companies (Universal, Warner, Sony). Sometimes their minimums or prices are way out of line with what's realistic for a project. We have to agree to manufacture usually 2000 or more records for a release when usually, past sales from similar projects suggest 500 or 1000 are more realistic numbers. We've had a lot of times where we won't do something we love very much because we can't figure out how to break even on the project. The margins are extremely thin on major label licenses so breaking even is tough to get to and might take a while. There are tons of projects we know the market is dying for a reissue of (as are we), but we simply get told that we can't license that title or can't reorder that title anymore (we're getting low on Dock Of The Bay (hint hint, sigh). Generally it's because they want to do a version themselves, which we understand, but it'd be easier to swallow if they did indeed do them or do them sooner."

I think this above is part of VMP's issue with maintaining 5 tracks, cost issues, and ongoing curation woes. This was the same issue that hit Rubellan too.
 
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