Yep. People rightfully raised a stink and VMP knows there is an issue. They are hopefully pricing out a sleeve reprint or figuring out something else to make it right. I'm okay with giving them a little time to sort it. I expect they will not make it right and post some bullshit corporate speak but in the meantime, I'll enjoy the music and just try not to look at the sleeves haha
I had posted a quote from their response to the Queen issue on my FB thread and one of the big people who had been wanting everyone to just shut up about it commented that this was actually a good point and that maybe he was changing his mind on the issue. I saw his post saying that just a little while before all such discussion was deleted. Convenient?
Do we know if VMP actually had to eat any cost on that Queen reprint through? Like was it a mistake with the printing company or was is VMP’s fault? This situation seems deliberate as in the design team actually wanted this back cover for this release whereas the Queen seems like a slight screw up at the printing plant. VMP may not have had to pay much if anything to reprint those sleeves if it wasn’t their fault.
Exactly, if they just eat the cost and reprint the sleeves, they will have happy customers and if everything goes fine the rest of the way, I’ll be a happy customer with my money well spent. If they keep fucking this up I’m never buying an anthology from them again.
I think I do remember them actually owning up to the mistake of not checking the proof properly and that they did pay for the reprint, but I could be wrong.
I don't recall hearing anything beyond "it was a formatting error that occurred when the file was sent". So last I heard they didn't really take responsibility for it, just blamed the machines. But perhaps that changed later I'm not sure. But seeing how often this sort of thing happens with them I'm going to assume it was likely on their end.
Not that it's fully on point, but how would y'all feel if the number was on a stick on the shrink wrap.... *cough* Floating Points *cough*
Imagine my surprise when I spread the teachings of Lucifer at the catholic school I attended. They immediately silenced me and sentenced me to 3 prayings of the rosary. Where was my freedom of speech?! /sarc
I actually am a lawyer. There is an analysis that can apply to "semi-public forums". I don't think it likely that forum that is part of a paid subscription would be one. This is more of a civil law issue, and if they did not have you agree to terms and conditions regarding censorship when you subscribed, there is probably a colorable argument that they have breached the sales contract. I have NO idea how far anyone would get with that, and the amount of damages is like teeny tiny. Vote with your wallet...? I guess?
Ya don't say...
I would feel the same way I do about a lazy afterthought like hand-numbering with a Sharpie at the last minute... Or I’d feel as though I paid a premium price for a premium product and received what amounts to a high school science project that’s finished the night before it’s due, with many aspects of it being “just good enough” to get a D
So I ordered the limited white vinyl press from LNT directly before the VMP one was announced and I ended up with both. The LNT one also had the number listed on a sticker on the front of the album IIRC.
