Pre-Order Thread

phramenma said:
This is what VMP's drop should've looked like today.

Highly recommended.

Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
UK Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind - LP
US Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind - LP+

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Available from your usual suspects.
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Well...

www.vinylmeplease.com

Heaven to a Tortured Mind

'Heaven to a Tortured Mind,' the fourth LP of electronic artist Yves Tumor, is here on transparent and black marble vinyl.
www.vinylmeplease.com www.vinylmeplease.com
 
mitchwagz said:
Looks cool but kind of glad I just bought the silver off of Rough Trade... about $5 cheaper there too and they don’t charge until they ship.
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I have a feeling the actual record won't live up to that mockup anyway, usually those "transparent with marbled whatever" color variants basically end up looking like clear records that got something smudged on them (at least in my experience). I'd rather go pure silver. Plus you can be reasonably sure you'll get it on time ordering from another place.
 
That Yves Tumor is probably going to sit around for a while too at $34. Even similarish more popular outsider artists like Grimes, Thundercat and Moses Sumney are still available which is surprising.

Does anyone else feel like there is no hype at all for store drops now that it is random? That and releasing color variants several days (or weeks) after other color variants are already available is kind of weird too. I feel like they are releasing way too many exclusives.
 
mitchwagz said:
I feel like they are releasing way too many exclusives.
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They should be trying to move the old inventory they have in the store. ROTMs like Torres, Tennis, Wells Fargo, etc. Exclusives like Shamir, Petite Noir, Art Ensemble of Chicago, etc.

There's so much that's been in the store for years now, and they have made no attempt to get it out the door.
 
tonythegamer said:
They should be trying to move the old inventory they have in the store. ROTMs like Torres, Tennis, Wells Fargo, etc. Exclusives like Shamir, Petite Noir, Art Ensemble of Chicago, etc.

There's so much that's been in the store for years now, and they have made no attempt to get it out the door.
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Exactly and a lot of that stuff would sell if they just had a fire sale. They would move inventory and get a nice little bump in capital. I can’t imagine they are getting sales on any of those old ROTMs from month to month. Maybe a small handful from swaps and that’s it. That, and it’s hard to search the store, especially on mobile. Honestly, the new store is god awful.
 
mitchwagz said:
Exactly and a lot of that stuff would sell if they just had a fire sale. They would move inventory and get a nice little bump in capital. I can’t imagine they are getting sales on any of those old ROTMs from month to month. Maybe a small handful from swaps and that’s it. That, and it’s hard to search the store, especially on mobile. Honestly, the new store is god awful.
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yeah. Shamir I've been mildly interested in, but not even at 13$ do i want to purchase it outright. It's honestly a little absurd how few sales VMP have with how much bulk they most likely have
 
mitchwagz said:
Exactly and a lot of that stuff would sell if they just had a fire sale. They would move inventory and get a nice little bump in capital. I can’t imagine they are getting sales on any of those old ROTMs from month to month. Maybe a small handful from swaps and that’s it. That, and it’s hard to search the store, especially on mobile. Honestly, the new store is god awful.
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The problem with sales after they jacked up the prices last year is that you would see albums "on sale" that were still more expensive than they haf been before they did that. Remember when they dropped Riding Dirty and there was pushback on the price? Now they're trying to sell single disc releases for the same amount
 
wokeupnew said:
anyone remember the Stranger Things soundtrack Variant Madness of 2016?

www.discogs.com

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things - Volume One (A Netflix Original Series)

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Stranger Things - Volume One (A Netflix Original Series) by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
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That's where I learned my lesson. Got 6 ordered and they just kept on coming... Now I only have one and thinking about selling it lol
 
mitchwagz said:
Exactly and a lot of that stuff would sell if they just had a fire sale. They would move inventory and get a nice little bump in capital. I can’t imagine they are getting sales on any of those old ROTMs from month to month. Maybe a small handful from swaps and that’s it. That, and it’s hard to search the store, especially on mobile. Honestly, the new store is god awful.
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Lol why would they do this when they can continually drain the swap choices dry until you have to buy one.

And to those to say they arent- look at all the albums that could be swaps, or are swaps if you email CS, and the "one and done" swap system. They are playing musical chairs FOMO now
 
mitchwagz said:
Does anyone else feel like there is no hype at all for store drops now that it is random? That and releasing color variants several days (or weeks) after other color variants are already available is kind of weird too. I feel like they are releasing way too many exclusives.
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It's definitely a problem that there's no hype for their exclusives. And it's a problem they largely created for themselves by shutting down the forum. Storf going on reddit was a band-aid solution, and now that's done, too.

And yeah, they're overproducing and a lot of the stuff is not exactly "exclusive" when it's just one of half a dozen color variants. They're becoming Newbury; and they're not as good at it as Newbury is.

TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Lol why would they do this when they can continually drain the swap choices dry until you have to buy one.5
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The reason why is that they fear losing subscribers. Which is probably going to happen if swaps aren't good this month. Non-hardcore-VMPers aren't likely to stick around given this month's choices.
 
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