Vinyl Me Please Anthology

[Nee Lewman]

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if while they were packing these, they noticed the errors and went “oh shirt! Someone shut down the forking forums!”

 

[Mr Moore]

I think we can all rejoice at one thing following this development:

THE FLIPPERS ARE SHITTING THEMSELVES

hahhahahahahahahaha

 

[johnpisme]

I went through and found all the existing posts I could of people being jackasses about the forum or people who brought up the mistakes and I reported the posts as breaking the rules of the group.

I only wish I would have thought to do this earlier before they deleted all the criticism because those threads were the ones the shills were really attacking people in the most. Still, a good idea and I am following suit.

 

[Mr Moore]

Hey, faceboook users, if negative comments about the product are being removed because they aren't about 'the music', are positive comments about the product being removed too?

 

[swamp]

Can't you just pretend to be positive and then add "Also, today is opposite day!" to the end of your posts?
OR IS THAT AGAINST THE RULES TOO, FATHER CAPITALISM?!

 

[Nee Lewman]

Hey, faceboook users, if negative comments about the product are being removed because they aren't about 'the music', are positive comments about the product being removed too?

No. I felt like I was pushing it reporting the people posting negative about the forums and “negative” posters though. I like where your head is though.

Also, most of the positive posts are along the lines of “all I care about is the music”

 

[Turbo]

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if while they were packing these, they noticed the errors and went “oh shirt! Someone shut down the forking forums!”

Honestly, it's the first thing that went through my mind when I heard about this. Minus the "shirt!" and "forking".

 

[johnpisme]

Hey, faceboook users, if negative comments about the product are being removed because they aren't about 'the music', are positive comments about the product being removed too?

Exactly.

 

[duke86fan]

Is anthologies some employee/stock brokers pet project, so they shutdown a whole thread when they get too skeptical about this big announcement

 

[doncornelius]

Yes, the color is off but not quite as drastic as those two you posted. It's definitely more red than orange though. It does NOT say stereo on the jacket. It says stereo on the blue note labels on the vinyl themselves though.

Stereo on the label error was pointed out at announcement time. Didn't VMP say it would be corrected in the final product? Of course, there is no evidence since they nuked the forum.

These clowns are proving that they cannot play this game. The records sounding good is not their doing. Making sure the products look OK was the only thing they were totally responsible for, and they flunked the task.

 

[MikeH]

Stereo on the label error was pointed out at announcement time. Didn't VMP say it would be corrected in the final product? Of course, there is no evidence since they nuked the forum.

These clowns are proving that they cannot play this game. The records sounding good is not their doing. Making sure the products look OK was the only thing they were totally responsible for, and they flunked the task.

Yes we pointed out that it has the stereo label on the outside of the sleeve. That was removed/only on the mock-up. The sticker on the actual album says stereo though despite it being Mono.

 

[johnpisme]

I just cant get over the "I just care about the music" people and those who shouted down any criticism. There are fucking books devoted to the Blue Note album covers. Getting these right should have been the absolute baseline expectation.

 

[pijo]

This anthology thread is fun too!!!

 

[Joe Mac]

Fuck

This anthology thread is fun too!!!

Except we can fuck vinyl smack head off out of it and no one is closing down the thread because of it!

 

[doncornelius]

Yes we pointed out that it has the stereo label on the outside of the sleeve. That was removed/only on the mock-up. The sticker on the actual album says stereo though despite it being Mono.

That label error was spotted then, too, I'm afraid.

 

[Mr Moore]

There are fucking books devoted to the Blue Note album covers. Getting these right should have been the absolute baseline expectation.

Hey looky here



And would you look who could have provided a hi-res cover scan

 

[MikeH]

I just cant get over the "I just care about the music" people and those who shouted down any criticism. There are fucking books devoted to the Blue Note album covers. Getting these right should have been the absolute baseline expectation.

Amen. It's why I truly doubt that Blue Note was okay with and approved these covers as VMP stated. It almost seems to me like someone at VMP emailed Blue Note asking for the album cover, some Blue Note intern sent back the CD cover and everyone at VMP was like oh yea this works! That post on the Hoffman forum that @Skalap posted is 100% spot on. VMP should have never accepted the CD cover as an acceptable alternative, especially with the back cover having entirely the wrong information on it.

People would have complained about this if it was a $10 75th anniversary pressing. Instead it is a $230 "premium" box set being advertised as telling the story of a historical label and somehow used the wrong album art and left out the liner notes.

 

[MikeH]

That label error was spotted then, too, I'm afraid.

I think the thread got shut down before I saw that pointed out haha. I remember there being a lot of questions left unanswered about the product...it's all a pretty big bummer. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst when it comes to replacement sleeves.

 

[wmeugene]

Censor me, please.

Just catching up on the posts here and on FB and it’s clear that VMP needs to take a cool drink of water and let their customers vent about an obvious screw-up on a premium product. Everyone should be getting new Dexter sleeves.

The music is fantastic and I don’t regret my purchase because the record itself is a super quality product. But the sleeve issues are the definition of an avoidable mistake and a case of “if you can’t do it right, consider whether you should do it at all.”

 

[TCell]

I actually posted about it on the FB group, but I really thought VMP would be instigating more discussion about Blue Note. Wasn't that part of the sales pitch of the added value extras? Or am I mis-remembering?

Also, perhaps I'm just a luddite who doesn't use FB much, but is there a way to block just one or two members of the FB group so I don't see them anymore? I did it in my personal feed, but don't see a way to do it within the group.