Vinyl Me Please Anthology

[Nee Lewman]

I never clicked that though because I wanted to be able to see how it was handled. Hopefully this means they did get rid of them. I haven't seen him around there since what happened yesterday.

He had liked the posts I had deleted. Which says a lot about him.

 

[Mather]

It’s an option when you report the start of a thread to hide the user.

I never clicked that though because I wanted to be able to see how it was handled. Hopefully this means they did get rid of them. I haven't seen him around there since what happened yesterday.

You two are a couple of seriously un-chill jazzbo's.

Signed
Ron Jeremy

 

[johnpisme]

Silence all dissent.

Encourage and engage in positive response.

Appear to all outside observers as if everything is a smashing success.

Profit.

 

[Webb_615]

Hey man, just moved to Nashville for the summer. Any music/record spots you would recommend? Also, sorry this is not anthology related, still waiting on mine

Will DM you

 

[mitchwagz]

Not my money.

Yep would have bought that Joel Ross album in a heartbeat but now it’s standard black for me.

 

[mitchwagz]

You two are a couple of seriously un-chill jazzbo's.

Signed
Ron Jeremy

Damn can we start using jazzbo’s around here? It’s such a great term that doesn’t sound at all douchey.

 

[mitchwagz]

Finally listening to Horace Silver and it does indeed sound d amazing.

 

[Enoch]

Hey @Enoch , want to go out on a bang?
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maybe is there a direct source for this, because I guess the box this foiled stamped

 

[Mather]

My one thought, as someone who admittedly did NOT buy this product (but would be upset if I did), is that I hope people are careful not to become the thing they feel VMP has implicitly accused them of being. Criticism is good and deserved, but some of what I see in this thread could be easily dismissible by VMP as bitter former forumers making trouble and turning the FB group toxic out of spite.

“See? Even the group they paid to be in they can’t help but turn into a cesspool. It’s obviously not us, it’s them, and here’s the proof. There’s literally nothing we could have done that they wouldn’t have complained about.”

I’m not saying I agree with that thinking, but for those who might be predisposed to blaming external factors, I could see how it would be tempting to put this on the people who were already mad at them anyway. I know it’s alluring, but you won’t maintain the moral high ground if you engage with the same petty sniping as other customers.

/scold

What they’re doing sucks.

Your measured and reasoned response is of course, totally correct... You're right, I know you're right... I usually let things go before I become "internet guy" and I think the trouble I have in this case isn't so much that they messed up, it's the pithy and flippant responses to numerous totally valid complaints that just sets me off. Well, that and blocking people and deleting comments that don't show them in a good light.

BUT I DIGRESS.
I'm gunna stop now. But I do look forward to hearing about what the Hoffman forums have to say about all this. If for nothing else just to make it expressly clear to VMP that this forum was not the cause of their problems...

 

[MikeH]

Yep would have bought that Joel Ross album in a heartbeat but now it’s standard black for me.

Haha same exact thing happened to me earlier today. Saw it was posted and then immediately looked up how much the regular black final was and might purchase that instead. Seems like the vinyl isn’t out until August either way.

 

[MikeH]

You two are a couple of seriously un-chill jazzbo's.

Signed
Ron Jeremy

This almost made me spit water out by the way, so thank you for that. The word “Jazzbo” makes me laugh so hard.

 

[KenKaniff]

I'm not a Jazz guy but I just read every page here. Unreal. It's embarrassing for VMP.

 

[mitchwagz]

He’s gotta have a high level of confidence in both himself and anyone he interacts with to assume nobody is going to think twice about his usage of that word:
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Again, I tooootally get where you guys are coming from. Scoring a good rhetorical point feels amazing. I’m not above it. It’s a lot easier to remind you guys of your better angels when I didn’t drop two hundo on a giant CD.

Oof I am sorry for making a joke about that. Definitely did not know it was actually a word let alone a derogatory term. Fuck that guy.

 

[agutierrezb]

My one thought, as someone who admittedly did NOT buy this product (but would be upset if I did), is that I hope people are careful not to become the thing they feel VMP has implicitly accused them of being. Criticism is good and deserved, but some of what I see in this thread could be easily dismissible by VMP as bitter former forumers making trouble and turning the FB group toxic out of spite.

“See? Even the group they paid to be in they can’t help but turn into a cesspool. It’s obviously not us, it’s them, and here’s the proof. There’s literally nothing we could have done that they wouldn’t have complained about.”

I’m not saying I agree with that thinking, but for those who might be predisposed to blaming external factors, I could see how it would be tempting to put this on the people who were already mad at them anyway. I know it’s alluring, but you won’t maintain the moral high ground if you engage with the same petty sniping as other customers.

/scold

What they’re doing sucks.

Man, I love how @Indymisanthrope always has the wisest and most zen post on every thread. I'm not even being sarcastic here... I love seeing your very thoughtful and well articulated takes in the middle of hot debates.

 

[baylord]

i just saw this on discogs and thought it was a foil stamping

and btw this is not me defending them, im just saying my guessed excuse and how badly they worded it if it is their excuse

It’s not, it’s just the lighting. It’s black on black.

 

[KenKaniff]

Has anyone got a response from VMP or Blue Note on this stuff?
I'm also surprised this isn't really being discussed on VMP Reddit.

 

[johnpisme]

My one thought, as someone who admittedly did NOT buy this product (but would be upset if I did), is that I hope people are careful not to become the thing they feel VMP has implicitly accused them of being. Criticism is good and deserved, but some of what I see in this thread could be easily dismissible by VMP as bitter former forumers making trouble and turning the FB group toxic out of spite.

“See? Even the group they paid to be in they can’t help but turn into a cesspool. It’s obviously not us, it’s them, and here’s the proof. There’s literally nothing we could have done that they wouldn’t have complained about.”

I’m not saying I agree with that thinking, but for those who might be predisposed to blaming external factors, I could see how it would be tempting to put this on the people who were already mad at them anyway. I know it’s alluring, but you won’t maintain the moral high ground if you engage with the same petty sniping as other customers.

/scold

What they’re doing sucks.

I can totally see the perception being this and in fact some of the shill people have said that on the FB group. The problem is it wasn't actually true. It seemed to me we all saved our true vitriol or feelings for this outlet and gave more measured responses over on the group. It's a shame that the reality has been that people who complain about the product legitimately are just labeled trouble makers.

 

[mitchwagz]

My god does this Dexter Gordon sound amazing. Honestly these are MM quality pressings. Not a single bad thing to say about the vinyl here. KG did a marvelous job. If only the packaging matched the sound. Oh and I just went and bought the Dexter Gordon Blue Note 80 pressing.

 

[Enoch]

I am still awaiting a response about why Nat Turner was sent Smartpost

 

[chrb98]

Has anyone got a response from VMP or Blue Note on this stuff?
I'm also surprised this isn't really being discussed on VMP Reddit.

At least from my impression, the VMP reddit was fairly apprehensive about the Blue Note anthology - a lot of people in the initial thread were saying it was too expensive for them to jump on. If any of y'all wanna hop on the reddit and give a rundown of the situation you're more than welcome to - reddit is pretty much the only form of community that VMP (or at least one or two employees) pays attention to without being able to control, so even though they still might just ignore it, it's worth a shot?