Vinyl Me Please Anthology

High Rant District said:
I think we're seeing a company in transition here. There are cost-cutting measures happening that we can see: no more replacements for albums that arrive with cosmetic damage such as dinged corners, warps needing to have an American nickel fit under he warp in order to qualify for replacement, and now shipping the Anthology booklet in a flimsy mailer to many folks. Anyone would have known that the booklet would arrive in less-than-pristine condition. This last bit was clearly a conscious decision by someone with authority who decided "I don't care". Money is being conserved in ways we can see.

I'm guessing money is also being conserved in ways we can't see but in ways that affect the employees in a negative way. Maybe people have been let go, maybe people have been told that cuts to staff are coming, maybe changes have happened to cheapen the day-to-day office lifestyle/expenses. Who knows. But I get the impression that changes are happening to make the company more attractive (on paper) so it can be sold. It's what their brand-new COO (Lloyd Starr) did with his last company. I'm guessing he was brought in for a specific reason.

Even before this, my impression is that VMPs prices for records are too high, and they have too many employees. The belt may be tightening (but without the prices dropping).

Anyway, this is all speculation on my part, usually I'm talking outta my ass so this time may be no different. But the shipping of the booklet in a flimsy mailer, rather than buying some generic record boxes or at least stacks of cardboard stiffeners to sandwich the booklet for shipping, seems to me like an actual employee (not a 3rd-party shipper) saying IDGAF. Either that, or they were told they could only spend so much money to buy mailers for the booklets.

Numero presses via URP. Not good. When I buy Numero stuff, I buy it on CD.
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You’re witnessing the death of a company, caused completely by the idiots running said company.
 
Slimwhit33 said:
Becomes clearer with every turn of the page on this forum why they cancelled the old forum. They knew this S Show was coming. They’re done as a company. I have zero doubt. Pull up a chair and watch the demise. They truly deserve it.
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They have tens of thousands of subscribers. The majority of people subscribed didn’t even know there even was a forum, much to the delight of VMP I’m sure. They aren’t done. They won’t get any more of my money and I’m sure they took a hit by shutting down the old forum. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see them cash out at some point soon and they might be wise to. A lot of signs point to them looking for investors or potentially selling.
 
The booklet being in a padded mailer is some "I'm not mad just disappointed" situation. I got that nice feeling of existential dread from opening my mailbox and seeing that it had gotten crammed in there (and my post office/ delivery people actually have a stellar record of delivering everything without any damage). On the plus side I was most looking forward to the Bobby Hutcherson album which arrived and it's just as killer and good sounding as I was hoping.
 
admiraltaftbar said:
The booklet being in a padded mailer is some "I'm not mad just disappointed" situation. I got that nice feeling of existential dread from opening my mailbox and seeing that it had gotten crammed in there (and my post office/ delivery people actually have a stellar record of delivering everything without any damage). On the plus side I was most looking forward to the Bobby Hutcherson album which arrived and it's just as killer and good sounding as I was hoping.
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It's almost more frustrating that the albums sound so good because imagine how good the entire product could have been had the other elements been cared for as much as the engineering and pressings were?
 
MikeH said:
It's almost more frustrating that the albums sound so good because imagine how good the entire product could have been had the other elements been cared for as much as the engineering and pressings were?
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Yeah I get where you are coming from. I think once the replacements are in this will be a "I don't hate this set but I'll be putting my money elsewhere in the future" for me. Now if these albums come out on tone poets next year or something I'll have to deal with the awesome feeling of buyers regret.
 
admiraltaftbar said:
Yeah I get where you are coming from. I think once the replacements are in this will be a "I don't hate this set but I'll be putting my money elsewhere in the future" for me. Now if these albums come out on tone poets next year or something I'll have to deal with the awesome feeling of buyers regret.
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FWIW, and I realise that may not be much, but I do recall from storf's AMA that there would be zero crossover with the BN80 releases. Now BN81? That's a different story.
 
High Rant District said:
and they have too many employees.
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Enoch said:
I disagree, I think each employee as way more to do than they should and that is why things or overlooked, they keep piling more and more on everyone's plate, just my opinion.
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I disagree with your disagreement and I'll explain why.

VMP's LinkedIn has a link to 32 employees. If they're all current (probably not) that's a staggering amount. Light In The Attic puts out their own records and is also a distributor for something like 150 other labels, and they have about 15 employees. And 4 of those employees just do licensing, which I doubt VMP has anyone do.
 
High Rant District said:
I disagree with your disagreement and I'll explain why.

VMP's LinkedIn has a link to 32 employees. If they're all current (probably not) that's a staggering amount. Light In The Attic puts out their own records and is also a distributor for something like 150 other labels, and they have about 15 employees. And 4 of those employees just do licensing, which I doubt VMP has anyone do.
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I bet a lot of those people generate content, LITA doesn’t do that for their releases. Besides I don’t think LITA does 30k records a month at least.
 
High Rant District said:
I disagree with your disagreement and I'll explain why.

VMP's LinkedIn has a link to 32 employees. If they're all current (probably not) that's a staggering amount. Light In The Attic puts out their own records and is also a distributor for something like 150 other labels, and they have about 15 employees. And 4 of those employees just do licensing, which I doubt VMP has anyone do.
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I think they have far too few worker bees and far too many padded-title/paid-far-too-much higher up's/management who wonder what to do with more time.

So, you and @Enoch are both right.
 
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