Vinyl Me Please Anthology

[Dtknuckles]

Oh definitely. Or go after a few whales. This is not my rational brain talking.

That said I recently purchased a couple of whales, spending more money on single records than I ever have in my life and it was oddly unsatisfying.

Pressing the buy button and the first listen are often the only satisfying experiences in record collecting. After the first listen the album become less exciting and more familiar.

Edit: I haven't gotten around to really giving time to all the records I bought over the summer.

 

[Space Wanderer]

I don't own many Motown records and probably would not go out of my way to buy them. I've never dived into Motown. So I'm fine with spending $265 to give it a shot. I did it with Blue Note and loved what they curated for me which has led me to get a lot more Blue Note records. I liked the box set aside from the few snafus. No different than flying blind with the Classics that have spurred me to get more albums from those artists.

I don't own a mansion, for the record. This is a splurge for me but I had a good experience on the last one.

I don't own a mansion either, which is probably my biggest impediment to pulling the trigger on this one. Not because I don't have the cash, but because I'm running out of room in my non-mansion house to store my damn records.

 

[mdmost]

I don't own a mansion either, which is probably my biggest impediment to pulling the trigger on this one. Not because I don't have the cash, but because I'm running out of room in my non-mansion house to store my damn records.

After I got the Kallax, I notice my wife's constant glances towards it when she comes into the study. Like she can now see just how ridiculous I've gotten in buying vinyl.

 

[gafacaode]

Not sure if anyone posted this but the Anthology pages now reads: "On sale through the end of September or until it sells out"
I guess the full price was a bluff after all.

EDIT: or maybe I'm just misreading and it means that there will no more boxes for sale after sept 30.

 

[zombie.modernist]

Oh definitely. Or go after a few whales. This is not my rational brain talking.

That said I recently purchased a couple of whales, spending more money on single records than I ever have in my life and it was oddly unsatisfying.

Totally, I only get the thrill of the hunt, not the thrill of the overpayment. I find spending big ticket money online to be especially unsatisfying, even if it's a rare record. If anything I just get stressed it will be fucked up in shipping or over-graded. One thing I have found really satisfying is trading records in to get something I never would have bought.

 

[bettim84]

I'm sure this has been discussed already but I got the VMP email about Motown anthology and it literally does not list the records?!? VMP seriously wants people to drop around $300 on mystery records?!?

I know others may feel differently but to me this is such a ridiculous proposition. Edit: puke-worthy.

 

[bother]

I'm sure this has been discussed already but I got the VMP email about Motown anthology and it literally does not list the records?!? VMP seriously wants people to drop around $300 on mystery records?!?

I know others may feel differently but to me this is such a ridiculous proposition. Edit: puke-worthy.

welcome to the thread, my friend.

 

[mdmost]

I'm sure this has been discussed already but I got the VMP email about Motown anthology and it literally does not list the records?!? VMP seriously wants people to drop around $300 on mystery records?!?

 

[GritNGlitter]

I'm glad this is so expensive. I really can't afford to buy any kind of box set (or even standard records for the most part), but if it were $200 I'd be very tempted, as this is very much directly up my alley.

 

[Jeff Lerner]

VMP seriously wants people to drop around $300 on mystery records?!?

 

[duke86fan]

One hour left before the price raises and the no one will buy at that

So then we can see if we can say they succeeded

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Yup, we have crossed over the event horizon. Didn't sell out at $295 so let's raise the price

 

[TheThinWhiteDuke]

One hour left before the price raises and the no one will buy at that

So then we can see if we can say they succeeded

I'm expecting a longform article from Storf on how the failure to sell out of the Anthology set speaks to the still -needed progress of music listeners to accept equality of women to men

I'm not actually joking

 

[GritNGlitter]

One hour left before the price raises and the no one will buy at that

So then we can see if we can say they succeeded

Yep, it's 345 now. That's a lot of money for a mystery grab bag.

 

[TheThinWhiteDuke]

Yep, it's 345 now. That's a lot of money for a mystery grab bag.

$43 per album before tax

L O fucking L

 

[bother]

Yep, it's 345 now. That's a lot of money for a mystery grab bag.

I was wrong!

Nobody should buy at this price.

 

[GritNGlitter]

I was wrong!

Nobody should buy at this price.

People should do what they want with their money.

But they should also keep in mind that we're a lot closer to Christmas than it feels like.

 

[YimYames]

there are only 1000. It didn't sell out with a so called discount. If they were smart they'd shread the rest and announce it's sold out. I see a lot of grief coming for them if they sit or end up dropping the price.

 

[bother]

People should do what they want with their money.

As someone that bought this, I am aware of the irony of me telling people this costs too much... lol.

 

[wmeugene]

there are only 1000. It didn't sell out with a so called discount. If they were smart they'd shread the rest and announce it's sold out. I see a lot of grief coming for them if they sit or end up dropping the price.

But they have to chase every last sale. Though I agree that this making it past 24 hours can only be viewed as a failure. And unfortunately, they’re going to blame everyone but themselves for the overreach (that it’s not for every customer and I can’t wait for the blame that customers weren’t ready for a box set focused on female artists).