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Pinata Exclusive 2LP (Splat)

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Seeming a natural fit after years of creating together leading up to their 2019 album Bandana, at first glance rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer Madlib seemed like an unlikely combination. Madlib is the professional name of Otis Jackson Jr. of...
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Pinata Exclusive 2LP (Quad)

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Seeming a natural fit after years of creating together leading up to their 2019 album Bandana, at first glance rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer Madlib seemed like an unlikely combination. Madlib is the professional name of Otis Jackson Jr. of...
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Twentytwo said:
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Pinata Exclusive 2LP (Splat)

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Seeming a natural fit after years of creating together leading up to their 2019 album Bandana, at first glance rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer Madlib seemed like an unlikely combination. Madlib is the professional name of Otis Jackson Jr. of...
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MikeH said:
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Pinata Exclusive 2LP (Quad)

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Seeming a natural fit after years of creating together leading up to their 2019 album Bandana, at first glance rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer Madlib seemed like an unlikely combination. Madlib is the professional name of Otis Jackson Jr. of...
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Was tempted, until I saw the price without shipping. I’ll stick with my Piñata ‘74.
 
these are like the fourth or fifth different variants of piñata from newburry lol.

i want to believe that someone in the newburry team is like “we need to repress a new variant of piñata already, that thing is a classic”

and everyone else in that meeting just nods and says “yessir”
 
Santi Chacin said:
these are like the fourth or fifth different variants of piñata from newburry lol.

i want to believe that someone in the newburry team is like “we need to repress a new variant of piñata already, that thing is a classic”

and everyone else in that meeting just nods and says “yessir”
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Don't blame them....they keep selling out and then selling for crazy prices on discogs/ebay.
 
Crabbers said:
They better not cancel my Grateful Dead mofis only to jack them up higher 🤬😂
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Hope not! I know that someone said that they had some MoFis ordered that were in stock, then told they were OOS and then a few days later back in stock at jacked up prices...hasn't happened to me yet. I've gotten 5 albums now I think from MoFi from being backordered. None were cancelled and none were jacked up in price between me ordering and when they came back into stock. MD seems to only jack up price on the very last few right before albums go OOP. Supposedly the Miles - Jack Johnson wasn't a repress but they found a box.

Just frustrating overall with all these companies flipping their own product.
 
MikeH said:
Hope not! I know that someone said that they had some MoFis ordered that were in stock, then told they were OOS and then a few days later back in stock at jacked up prices...hasn't happened to me yet. I've gotten 5 albums now I think from MoFi from being backordered. None were cancelled and none were jacked up in price between me ordering and when they came back into stock. MD seems to only jack up price on the very last few right before albums go OOP. Supposedly the Miles - Jack Johnson wasn't a repress but they found a box.

Just frustrating overall with all these companies flipping their own product.
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Eugh everything I read about MoFI and MD makes me like them less. They’re sounding increasingly like a shit cross between VMP and a cogs flipper but with better pressings.
 
Joe Mac said:
Eugh everything I read about MoFI and MD makes me like them less. They’re sounding increasingly like VMP but with better pressings.
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Music Direct is generally awesome, especially for gear. I have only noticed the price increases somewhat recently and one person mentioned in the audiophile pressing thread that their orders were cancelled and then more copies at an inflated price went up on the store a little later. It seems to only be happening with MoFi pressings they sell too. They aren't the only seller doing it either...the Toad Hall records guy, who does videos about MoFi news, is just a shop but they jack up the prices on last copies of albums too. They were selling the last copies of Oh Mercy for $100 each.
 
MikeH said:
Music Direct is generally awesome, especially for gear. I have only noticed the price increases somewhat recently and one person mentioned in the audiophile pressing thread that their orders were cancelled and then more copies at an inflated price went up on the store a little later. It seems to only be happening with MoFi pressings they sell too. They aren't the only seller doing it either...the Toad Hall records guy, who does videos about MoFi news, is just a shop but they jack up the prices on last copies of albums too. They were selling the last copies of Oh Mercy for $100 each.
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Let’s separate the gear side out. It’s clearly a different experience and not relevant.

The complaints are all valid. From an international standpoint I have found them to be unpleasant and dismissive to deal with. They clearly aren’t packaging their records right. The A&R stinks. The other shops doing that is wrong and leaves a bad taste. MD doing it is far far far worse! They own the damn label making the records, they’re abusing their market position. Then the rotten cherry on the shit pie? Cancelling orders and then re-listing at the flipper price. That is absolutely one of the most disgusting business practices I’ve heard in a long time.

Fuck them, fuck them hard.
 
Joe Mac said:
Let’s separate the gear side out. It’s clearly a different experience and not relevant.

The complaints are all valid. From an international standpoint I have found them to be unpleasant and dismissive to deal with. They clearly aren’t packaging their records right. The A&R stinks. The other shops doing that is wrong and leaves a bad taste. MD doing it is far far far worse! They own the damn label making the records, they’re abusing their market position. Then the rotten cherry on the shit pie? Cancelling orders and then re-listing at the flipper price. That is absolutely one of the most disgusting business practices I’ve heard in a long time.

Fuck them, fuck them hard.
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Oh I agree the complaints are valid. I personally haven't had any issues (haven't received any damaged records from what I can remember and all my backordered albums were locked in price-wise even if prices went up on a repress).

I hate that they are doing the Music Matters thing of jacking up prices on the last few copies of albums that won't get repressed. I refuse to buy them at the higher price even if I want the album. When I see a price jacked up, I see if I can pick up that album at a local shop or somewhere else at MSRP. And hearing about the cancelling an order then listing at a higher price is really really awful. I'd be giving them absolute hell over that one and reporting their business practices if that was me.

In terms of MoFi buying, I use MD for backorders since they are the only place to do so. Typically I buy MoFis elsewhere because I can sometimes find them for cheaper with coupons. I don't like relying solely on MD for MoFis because their practices lately have been terrible. It's really frustrating because I used to really like MD for MoFi purchases. They are giving me lots of reasons to shop for MoFis elsewhere though...
 
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