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    Just got a copy of Nat Turner Rebellion's 1971 single Can't Go on Living/Laugh to Keep from Crying single and... Can't Go On Living sounds different than what was on the VMP album? Different mix, maybe a completely different take? I got to listen to both carefully side by side...
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    For the first time uh, ever, I think... I'm going to sub to all three ROTM tracks this month. Aretha and the Roots were no-brainers and after a couple of listens to El-P, I think I'll get it now rather than take my chances and hope it lasts a month or two down the road for swaps. Definitely VMP's overall strongest month in quite a while, maybe since March of last year.
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    @Rahawk2 Yeah and even if El-P survives, the way VMP has been handling new releases going in and out and back in stock again is nerve-wracking. I'm pretty sure my backlog of Experience United, Jorge Ben, Eddie Floyd and Wells Fargo can wait around as swaptions for another month. These three are all keepers.
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    I think they’ll be good another month, I panicked and used that 25 off coupon to buy Bell, Fiona, and Living Legends. I think at least of those 3 won’t be around next monh
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    Wait, Fiona is back? Sonuva...
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    Alright, that opening track to Mr. Hands, Spiraling Prism: does that bassline remind anyone else of Chrono Trigger or is it just me?
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    Been on a Donald Byrd kick lately. Picked up an OG pressing of "Street Lady" for 15 bucks yesterday and it's fantastic. I can see why some people were hoping this would be the VMP pick for Classics.
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    Against my better judgment, I went and bought Labi Siffre and Townes Van Zandt's Our Mother the Mountain. The 20% off code helped with that, at least.

    I took off my side sub though, so I'm only getting Mr. Hands from the ROTMs this month. My long-term future with them is on thin ice.
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    I bought Johnny Griffin's "A Blowing Session" late last year right before it sold out and listened to it a handful of times. But I've recently gone back and started listening to it some more and hot damn, is it blowing me away (no pun intended). Just some jazz legends absolutely killing it.
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    Against my better judgment, I'm currently swapping for Joel Ross.
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    Update: Swapped again, this time for William Bell. Still not feeling too certain about anything. Maybe I should just keep it on Da Brat lol
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    This might be premature, but I'm thinking of pruning next month down to my main track only (RHH). And I'll probably swap if it's Da Brat. I kind of want it, but chances are it'll stick around for a while. She can go to the bottom of my to-swap list.

    My backlog is looking like this, although I'm kind of on the fence about Sister Rosetta:

    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Experience Unlimited
    Wells Fargo
    Eddie Floyd
    Jorge Ben
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    Of course, even if I keep it to only my main sub, next month should still be a decent size box: both Madlib/Gibbs albums along with Yusef Lateef. And who knows, maybe an exclusive will bowl me over next week.
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    I have a feeling enough people will swap out Hud Dreems for it to make an appearance in the store next month, but I'm not gonna take a risk and will keep it.

    I still wanna grab an album from my backlog so I currently have Essentials swapped for Clipse. I don't think that one will be around much longer.

    My current backlog:

    Little Milton
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Experience Unlimited
    Wells Fargo
    Eddie Floyd
    Jorge Ben
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    New month, new ROTM announcements, new list of future swaptions, probably in this order:

    Little Milton
    Clipse
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Wells Fargo
    Experience Unlimited
    Eddie Floyd
    Jorge Ben


    I gave up Method Man for Lightmen this month. Honestly, I kind of hope another Bespoke Post VMP box is in the pipeline with several of the above records included as options. That box they put out this month ruled lol
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    Posting this here for personal future reference. My current VMP backlog to grab up as future swaptions, roughly in this order:

    The Lightmen Plus One
    Little Milton
    Clipse
    Experience Unlimited
    Wells Fargo
    Eddie Floyd

    Of course if the new Mr. Bongo bundle or TLC survive to swaps, I'll have to push these back accordingly...
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