Online Vinyl Deals

[Plaid Room / Colemine]

Not sure if anyone cares - but I know I work better with sheets than I do with pictures. This is the sheet I used (obviously omitting some data regarding quantity available, sales history, etc.) to plan which items would receive more than 15% discounts on the site. The SKU is internally used for filing and packing orders, but you can use that to search the site for that particular product, too.

 

[Plaid Room / Colemine]

What's the free shipping threshold? It's charging me $11 for a single record with media mail

Sorry about that. Shopify has it's quirks, and you've found one of them that we very very rarely run into.

If your order isn't over the free shipping threshold and you have 2 items in your cart.....If neither location (i.e. warehouse or the shop) can fulfill the entire in full it will split the fulfillment locations to be 1 item from each location and charge double shipping. . We always refund this extra cost ($5.50) after the fact.

Under normal circumstances, you'll almost never find this scenario on our site, since we almost always have at least a couple of copies of every title at the shop. But, with the volume coming in during the sale, we're moving pallets at a time to the shop, and there's these little bugs that sort of appear when the shop doesn't have "stock" of the records, and only the warehouse does.

 

[yukbon]

Fair enough, but the real gouge here is that Tool didn’t announce both sets at once. Given the different artwork and overall package of the 3-LP set, Tool must have known the 3-LP was in the pipeline when they announced the 5-LP set. As @Colonel4Bin said, it’s pretty obvious Tool is happy to milk their fans for all their/they’re worth (and more). I’m a Tool fan and didn’t want the 5-LP even @ Amazon’s $100 price today, but I’d consider the 3-LP set at a normal price.

Tool being a tool about vinyl. Makes sense.

At least their name isn't false advertising!

I mean, they're not subtle about it.

 

[DrainedPatience]

I mean, they're not subtle about it.

Exactly. It's right there in the lyrics "send more money, fuck you buddy."

From overpriced tickets, shiny tour posters, 180 dollar box sets.. it's absurd.. and Tool fans are still fumbling all over themselves to drain their bank account while throwing a hissy fit about prices.

That said, I'll buy one of these when it's down to 35 on Amazon. That's my middle finger back.

 

[yukbon]

Amazon product ASIN B09JJJ4CT7
for the neil fans, $10 barn

 

[Corycm]

Amazon product ASIN B09JJJ4CT7
for the neil fans, $10 barn

Ten Dollar Barn is also the name of my new country band.

 

[zdkaiser]

Ha! Thank you - we appreciate it. Our warehouse space went from like 15,000 records in November so something like 95,000 records right now including all the Colemine stock. It's absolutely bursting and we have pallets of incoming stock we don't have room for.

A new warehouse is on the horizon but we won't be getting it for about a year. So for now, this is the next best thing haha!

You could always have a Supermarket Sweep contest where three teams of record collectors are allowed one whole minute to tear through your shop and grab as many records as they can. Problem solved [dusts off hands]

 

[DrainedPatience]

You could always have a Supermarket Sweep contest where three teams of record collectors are allowed one whole minute to tear through your shop and grab as many records as they can. Problem solved [dusts off hands]


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"He's going straight to the MoFi aisle for the big price gains!"

 

[Corycm]

"He's going straight to the MoFi aisle for the big price gains!"

The idea of records crashing into wire shopping carts gives me a lot of bent corner anxiety just thinking about it.

 

[zdkaiser]

"He's going straight to the MoFi aisle for the big price gains!"

Best part is, I believe all Plaidroom's record shelves are on wheels, so you can just roll the whole damn shelf out the front door.

 

[yukbon]

You could always have a Supermarket Sweep contest where three teams of record collectors are allowed one whole minute to tear through your shop and grab as many records as they can. Problem solved [dusts off hands]


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I am 100% down for this and in fact will be visiting ohio next month, so....lmk plaidroom, I'll bring my running shoes....

 

[Crabbers]

I am 100% down for this and in fact will be visiting ohio next month, so....lmk plaidroom, I'll bring my running shoes....

Oooh which part of Ohio you visiting ?

 

[Jbraswell]

The Alan Parsons MoFi and Hendrix UHQR ($51 and $107, respectively) seemed like relatively good deals to me.

Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky [2-lp, 45 RPM]

The Alan Parsons Project's Most Commercially Accessible, Successful, and Cohesive Album: Eye in the Sky Features Exquisite Arrangements, Orchestral Scope, and Pop Melodies. Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Present the Music's Smoothness, Lushness...

www.plaidroomrecords.com

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? [200 Gram Clarity UHQR Vinyl]

Are You Experienced, debut release by The Jimi Hendrix Experience returns! Analogue Productions' UHQR, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl! 33 1/3 RPM Ultra High Quality Record release limited to 20,000 copies Mastered from the original tapes and cut to lacquer by Bernie Grundman Pressed at...

www.plaidroomrecords.com

Pretty good price for the 1-step and I bet it's a nice sounding record.
I am holding out for the purple box next sale.

 

[Corycm]

fine. Fine. FINE.

After poking around in the Summer Sale since yesterday I finally pulled the trigger. Jenny O, Tyler Childers and the TRON soundtrack for cheap were too much temptation.

 

[zdkaiser]

Anyone own the Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings boxset? Plaidroom has it for $85 during the sale. Apparently it includes a 60 page booklet, nice aesthetics, etc. Can't find any info on where it was pressed, but all the other Welch records I have came out of QRP and are AAA. Assume this is no different.

 

[MikeH]

The idea of records crashing into wire shopping carts gives me a lot of bent corner anxiety just thinking about it.

Or someone trying to wheel a kallax down the aisles, only to learn that the kallax was assembled the wrong way and this happens

 

[Plaid Room / Colemine]

Anyone own the Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings boxset? Plaidroom has it for $85 during the sale. Apparently it includes a 60 page booklet, nice aesthetics, etc. Can't find any info on where it was pressed, but all the other Welch records I have came out of QRP and are AAA. Assume this is no different.

I bought this as soon as we got it in stock. My copy sounds great - although I never looked into where it was pressed. I feel like there's so much music for a 3-lp, too. One of my favorite purchases this year!

 

[hahahaha_totally]

Nice prices... anyone have this Gary Chandler record? I grabbed it because I dig Ceasar Frazier so the sound hooked me right away.

 

[Russ I]

Anyone own the Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings boxset? Plaidroom has it for $85 during the sale. Apparently it includes a 60 page booklet, nice aesthetics, etc. Can't find any info on where it was pressed, but all the other Welch records I have came out of QRP and are AAA. Assume this is no different.

Here’s the hype sticker. Don’t they press their own stuff at this point?





EDIT: Looks like you're right, based on this article--they cut their own laquers, then send to QRP for pressing. Info. in the booklet with this box set doesn't mention (that I can see) where it's pressed, but the mastering info matches the article.

Vinyl ReviewsInterview: Vinyl Reviews Goes on the Record with Gillian Welch

Singer/songwriter Gillian Welch is accustomed to going her own way. When Universal Music Group acquired her first label, Almo Sounds, she started her own imprint, Acony Records, based in Nashville. So when Welch and her musical partner, David Rawlings, wanted their catalogs—and Acony’s albums—on...

vinylreviews.com

 

[lonestarlahr]

Nice prices... anyone have this Gary Chandler record? I grabbed it because I dig Ceasar Frazier so the sound hooked me right away.

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I have it — an absolute stunner! I actually enjoy Outlook more than the Frazier record, FWIW.