Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Clint Howard said:
I'm sure I'm in the minority here but it really blows me away, the lack of excitement for this. Like y'all got hyped for a fucking Motown boxset or a Blue Note boxset.. both of whom have pressed everything to death (yes, I know there are exceptions)... and you finally have a chance to own some crazy shit at probably a decent price and it seems like the general attitude is - meh.. we'll see. Just blows me away.. 98% of the reason I got into records was so I could find shit like this.. not more generic soul / jazz / whatever... (no, not knocking Motown or Blue Note but come the fuck on)
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Ahh but you're missing the point, those labels are so large and so mainstream that it gets overwhelming and someone needs to pay $300 to point them in the right direction and include podcasts so they can truly 'get it'. Because as you know, going to YouTube or just being bored and using Google to search through the blue note, stax, or motown collection is pretty difficult.

I find this anthology pretty unique and am certainly interested in it but would like to know how 'exclusive' it really is. If I can find these records on now again at a later time is rather just go through them, either way, major props to VMP for highlighting this!
 
blissfullychaotic said:
Ahh but you're missing the point, those labels are so large and so mainstream that it gets overwhelming and someone needs to pay $300 to point them in the right direction and include podcasts so they can truly 'get it'. Because as you know, going to YouTube or just being bored and using Google to search through the blue note, stax, or motown collection is pretty difficult.
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I don’t think that’s an entirely fair statement...the Blue Note box was cheaper than buying older presses of those albums and one has never been available on vinyl...agree with the other parts though which is why I ended up only getting the BN one so far.
 
Clint Howard said:
I'm sure I'm in the minority here but it really blows me away, the lack of excitement for this. Like y'all got hyped for a fucking Motown boxset or a Blue Note boxset.. both of whom have pressed everything to death (yes, I know there are exceptions)... and you finally have a chance to own some crazy shit at probably a decent price and it seems like the general attitude is - meh.. we'll see. Just blows me away.. 98% of the reason I got into records was so I could find shit like this.. not more generic soul / jazz / whatever... (no, not knocking Motown or Blue Note but come the fuck on)
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Are you really surprised? It's a small genre that not a ton of people are super familiar with... and it's VMP, so this is going to cost $250+.

I'm going to listen to some stuff over the next few days and if it grabs me, I might buy. But I doubt I'm in for this one unless the price is right (it won't be).
 
MikeH said:
I don’t think that’s an entirely fair statement...the Blue Note box was cheaper than buying older presses of those albums and one has never been available on vinyl...agree with the other parts though which is why I ended up only getting the BN one so far.
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Good to know about one never being on vinyl did not know that tidbit. It was a pretty harsh statement so it's good to know some things I may have overlooked
 
blissfullychaotic said:
Good to know about one never being on vinyl did not know that tidbit. It was a pretty harsh statement so it's good to know some things I may have overlooked
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Yea--The Ambrose Akinmusire album (which is FANTASTIC) has never been on vinyl. And I mostly bought the box set for Schizophrenia which I had been looking for for years for a good copy at a decent price and had never been able to find it. And despite the rollout flubs, I do quite enjoy the actual records and still think it was a pretty good deal for the price I paid. The other few boxes haven't intrigued me much for the reasoning you said...

And now I know that it's likely that if this doesn't sell out and I want it later, I can likely get it from Acoustic Sounds in the future like I could with the Stax box.
 
MikeH said:
Yea--The Ambrose Akinmusire album (which is FANTASTIC) has never been on vinyl. And I mostly bought the box set for Schizophrenia which I had been looking for for years for a good copy at a decent price and had never been able to find it. And despite the rollout flubs, I do quite enjoy the actual records and still think it was a pretty good deal for the price I paid. The other few boxes haven't intrigued me much for the reasoning you said...

And now I know that it's likely that if this doesn't sell out and I want it later, I can likely get it from Acoustic Sounds in the future like I could with the Stax box.
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And honestly, I think I was a lot harsher on my Blue Note assesment than I necessarily should have been and really should have just inserted Stax instead. I think my overall point is - you have this audience's attention.. why not introduce them to something other than the biggest jazz label in the world? or two of the biggest soul/r&b labels of all time?

Much love to you all cause I thought for sure I might be kicking a hornet's nest with that one.
 
Clint Howard said:
And honestly, I think I was a lot harsher on my Blue Note assesment than I necessarily should have been and really should have just inserted Stax instead. I think my overall point is - you have this audience's attention.. why not introduce them to something other than the biggest jazz label in the world? or two of the biggest soul/r&b labels of all time?

Much love to you all cause I thought for sure I might be kicking a hornet's nest with that one.
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I think it’s gonna come down to price. I personally love Zam Rock from what I have heard of it (I’m no expert) but don’t know enough about it to drop $250+. And in theory this would be perfect for me—get to learn about a genre I like but never fully dove into, but I don’t entirely trust VMP to be the ones to teach me about it. The “educational” aspect of BN was laughable. It was mostly Don Was telling stories I had heard him tell on other podcasts. I didn’t follow any of the other anthologies to hear about if people liked the bonus content.

The one thing I DO trust VMP to deliver on is good pressings of the albums. Will be curious to look and see which albums we might be getting in it and the price along with that will influence if I decide to go for it or not. If this was under $200 I think it would be a slam dunk like you said. I just don’t see that happening.
 
MikeH said:
I think it’s gonna come down to price. I personally love Zam Rock from what I have heard of it (I’m no expert) but don’t know enough about it to drop $250+. And in theory this would be perfect for me—get to learn about a genre I like but never fully dove into, but I don’t entirely trust VMP to be the ones to teach me about it. The “educational” aspect of BN was laughable. It was mostly Don Was telling stories I had heard him tell on other podcasts. I didn’t follow any of the other anthologies to hear about if people liked the bonus content.

The one thing I DO trust VMP to deliver on is good pressings of the albums. Will be curious to look and see which albums we might be getting in it and the price along with that will influence if I decide to go for it or not. If this was under $200 I think it would be a slam dunk like you said. I just don’t see that happening.
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That's how I feel - if this is $225 or less after the discount, I probably would be in. If it's north of that, I cannot justify the price. The Motwon/Stax anthologies were too pricey imho and I hope the more obscure nature of this would cause this price to be more reasonable. But I don't see it happening because the pricing on these things has been just nuts.
 
MikeH said:
I think it’s gonna come down to price. I personally love Zam Rock from what I have heard of it (I’m no expert) but don’t know enough about it to drop $250+. And in theory this would be perfect for me—get to learn about a genre I like but never fully dove into, but I don’t entirely trust VMP to be the ones to teach me about it. The “educational” aspect of BN was laughable. It was mostly Don Was telling stories I had heard him tell on other podcasts. I didn’t follow any of the other anthologies to hear about if people liked the bonus content.

The one thing I DO trust VMP to deliver on is good pressings of the albums. Will be curious to look and see which albums we might be getting in it and the price along with that will influence if I decide to go for it or not. If this was under $200 I think it would be a slam dunk like you said. I just don’t see that happening.
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I mean what do you expect from a guy who curates records based off what cd's his mom bought him in Best Buy in the early aughts? If you really wanted an education about anything, I'd just stay away from VMP in general.

Having said that, having both Egon and Moss involved (and to what degree, who knows).. leads me to believe if they control the bonus content, we'll get some great stuff. If it's Storf doing it? Yeah, nothing.
 
Clint Howard said:
I mean what do you expect from a guy who curates records based off what cd's his mom bought him in Best Buy in the early aughts? If you really wanted an education about anything, I'd just stay away from VMP in general.

Having said that, having both Egon and Moss involved (and to what degree, who knows).. leads me to believe if they control the bonus content, we'll get some great stuff. If it's Storf doing it? Yeah, nothing.
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100% agree with ya. And I never bought the BN one for the educational aspect but know many who did and left sorely disappointed.
 
MikeH said:
If this was under $200 I think it would be a slam dunk like you said. I just don’t see that happening.
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Yeah I have a feeling it'll be closer to $300. This is Now-Again we're talking about, their presses aren't exactly cheap to begin with...they've all got the "we went crate digging and took a selfie with this obscure artist so you don't have to" tax added on
 
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