Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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Jan
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Maybe vmps marketing department is suffering from FONSO?
But seriously, it's sad. For a long time i tusted vmp and storf, also with their Announcements. After qotsa and this it is pretty obvious that while not outright lying, they will leave out any details that would calm fomo of potential buyers. So from now on if the window of exclusivity for releases is not marketed i will just assume there is none.
Fear of not selling out
But seriously, it's sad. For a long time i tusted vmp and storf, also with their Announcements. After qotsa and this it is pretty obvious that while not outright lying, they will leave out any details that would calm fomo of potential buyers. So from now on if the window of exclusivity for releases is not marketed i will just assume there is none.
roffle24
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He/she is saying that VMP are intentionally leaving out details of other pressings to get you to FOMO into their product. They aren't technically lying, but they aren't telling you the whole story, because in all fairness, they have no obligation to. With QOTSA in particular, they basically said hey we have this limited exclusive pressing, if you want it, sign up now. It's widely available now and I guess for some reason people are mad that they could have gotten it somewhere else without signing up for 3 months of VMP? I'm not really sure.
Personally, I don't have a problem with this. They are in no way obligated to tell me what another company or an artist/group is going to produce when, or where, or in what quantities. They likely aren't even at liberty to say even if they do know. VMP have a product to sell and it was surely not easy to get this album to production to begin with. I'm sure they want to sell you their version. The only issue I could see is that they forced people into 3 month memberships.... but even in that scenario, you can see their entire back catalog for swaps, and they told you the 3 ROTM's ahead of time.
Jan
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I don´t have any problem with the qotsa they are selling, same with the ghostly international box. You get what they advertised for, but in both cases they ( intentionally) hyped up the Releases beeing out of print or never on Vinyl for Long times without mentioning that theirs was only a Colour Version of a widely available repress. In the qotsa case they even go changed their usual way of rotms and announced a month only to get people into signing up for three months before they would find out that they had other choices to get the album. obviously they don´t trust their own product enough anymore to expect to sell on the merit of the product against the alternative pressings.
You are right, they can run their business any way they want and are not obliged to give me any other Information, but i remember that they used to run their business differently. They were more open and straightforward in thir communication before and had the community aspect stronger. A lot of us would buy things blindly on recommendations from stuff or curation. Now, for me they are just a shop and i buy from them if i can´t get the record elsewhere for cheaper.
Murfocakes
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Hey guys quiet... if they get word that you lot have blown what the albums are in the Ghostly boxset and that they are cheaper elsewhere they might get angry and close the forum.... oh right, they can’t... in which case
NathanRicaud
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I wonder if the Ghostly International Anthology Box Sethas sold much or not?Hey guys quiet... if they get word that you lot have blown what the albums are in the Ghostly boxset and that they are cheaper elsewhere they might get angry and close the forum.... oh right, they can’t... in which case
If it hasn’t sold over 250 Box Set’s, then I hope VMP put the records up for sale in the VMP store! I am more interested in the non-compilation albums, like Shigeto’s “Full Circle”!
Hoping all the VMP exclusives records from the Ghostly International Box make it into the VMP Store!
Joe Mac
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I wonder if the Ghostly International Anthology Box Sethas sold much or not?
If it hasn’t sold over 250 Box Set’s, then I hope VMP put the records up for sale in the VMP store! I am more interested in the non-compilation albums, like Shigeto’s “Full Circle”!
Hoping all the VMP exclusives records from the Ghostly International Box make it into the VMP Store!
If they’re outside the box why not just pay less and buy them from a store? Surely the anthology records aren’t worth anything extra outside the box? I mean I really don’t get the appeal of the anthologies as a concept but surely outside of that as individual pieces they’re just albums and not worth the VMP premium?
NathanRicaud
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Mmmmmm that’s a very good point! It’s just that.......shipping costs so much! It’s $US29 for a vinyl to be shipped to Australia from Rough Trade (that’s where I can pre-order Shigeto)
International shipping costs really do make VMP much more affordable for me compared to pretty much every other vinyl online store
Joe Mac
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Mmmmmm that’s a very good point! It’s just that.......shipping costs so much! It’s $US29 for a vinyl to be shipped to Australia from Rough Trade (that’s where I can pre-order Shigeto)
International shipping costs really do make VMP much more affordable for me compared to pretty much every other vinyl online store
yeah I can get that, they are pretty much the only American store I can buy from, particularly as they don’t declare value properly so I don’t pay customs. Thankfully from here most of Europe and the UK is available so I’m not that reliant on them!
I do much prefer to shop in my local than with any online retailer though!
Jan
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Mmmmmm that’s a very good point! It’s just that.......shipping costs so much! It’s $US29 for a vinyl to be shipped to Australia from Rough Trade (that’s where I can pre-order Shigeto)
International shipping costs really do make VMP much more affordable for me compared to pretty much every other vinyl online store
well, since Bullmoose also has them for pre-order, i think it is a wide release and i expect them to show up for pre-order all over the world. Rough trade and bullmoose are probably just particularly early
RobbieBobby
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They are really blowing it if this really is just a box of color variants. They could have made the Anthology series a truly premium product with a lot of exclusivity amd rarity built into it, something vinyl collectors are naturally drawn to.
This is going to make me more hesitant to invest in this product in the future, the biggest draw to the Blue Note Anthology for me was the AAA presses and the fact that you can't find new high quality represses of most of the albums in the set. I hope a lot of people cancel on this one to discourage them from going down this path moving forward. It would be a shame if the rumored Sub Pop and Hip Hop anthologies went with a similar 'variant' model.
This is going to make me more hesitant to invest in this product in the future, the biggest draw to the Blue Note Anthology for me was the AAA presses and the fact that you can't find new high quality represses of most of the albums in the set. I hope a lot of people cancel on this one to discourage them from going down this path moving forward. It would be a shame if the rumored Sub Pop and Hip Hop anthologies went with a similar 'variant' model.
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mdmost
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You're putting that on VMP when that seems more on Ghostly. Though I don't blame Ghostly for wanting to sell to more than just 500 people. This is less a celebration of them and more a we'll let VMP sell some variants of albums we already plan to release. The other Anthologies were celebrations of labels or specific dives into what made these labels what they are.
siremobunny
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Successfully cancelled.
bdm105
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Did they confirm it's all the same albums?
siremobunny
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Not 100% confirmed, but it is known that Ghostly Swim 1 and 2 and Shigeto are three of them. A note in their writeup on it says that one of the albums is their most recently announced album, which is the third comp that is shown under the Rough Trade link. I'd bet the other two albums are the other two on that list that come out on the same date.
seeirwin
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Ah. I forgot they got rid of the 1 month subscription. That makes sense.