Vinyl Me Please Anthology

MikeH said:
I mean...you say people pay outrageous amounts for Music Matters albums, but the price of the Dead albums in this box are even more than most in-print MM pressings...and MM is a pillar of fantastic sounding vinyl.
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MM is amazing quality but I wouldnt say so much better than the tone poets where it justifies the price. And when I talk about their prices, its more the new SRXs that start at $74.95 a pop. But hey, if people want them enough them enough then do it. To each their own. I'm approaching this set in the same way.

MikeH said:
As for how many pressed and how many they need to sell to break even, that depends mostly on how much VMP has to pay the Dead for this. Part of me thinks the reason it's $450 is that the Dead took a big payday to license the music. The other part of me thinks they just jacked up the price because its 14 LPs and they are sticking to their $30-$40 per LP price tag on Anthologies. They have to have known that 7500 will not sell out so they likely have other partners in place to sell it like Acoustic Sounds after the initial sale period. I bet thats why they struck up their deal with AS...use AS's warehouse space to house a lot of the Anthology pressings that are taking up tons of space in the VMP warehouse and aren't being moved.
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I think you're definitely right all around here. A huge cost for this box (and for VMP in general) is licensing. I just wonder, if all the costs involved makes it necessary to charge such a high price, is it really still worth it to make it? I'm hoping they're approaching this and came up with these numbers from a business perspective and not a fan-boy one or they could be out a huge chunk of money here.

MikeH said:
Is there a way to check inventory on this? Really curious to see how many they have sold so far...
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Yeah, I was trying to figure this out but it looks like only way to increase quantity in cart is to add them one by one. And I'm definitely not curious enough to do that over 7000 times.
 
wynn72 said:
MM is amazing quality but I wouldnt say so much better than the tone poets where it justifies the price. And when I talk about their prices, its more the new SRXs that start at $74.95 a pop. But hey, if people want them enough them enough then do it. To each their own. I'm approaching this set in the same way.



I think you're definitely right all around here. A huge cost for this box (and for VMP in general) is licensing. I just wonder, if all the costs involved makes it necessary to charge such a high price, is it really still worth it to make it? I'm hoping they're approaching this and came up with these numbers from a business perspective and not a fan-boy one or they could be out a huge chunk of money here.



Yeah, I was trying to figure this out but it looks like only way to increase quantity in cart is to add them one by one. And I'm definitely not curious enough to do that over 7000 times.
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Oh yea...I think the $75 SRX are real pricey and I personally don't love any of those albums enough to warrant dropping that much on one album. I'm sure they sound awesome though. And the originals on those albums can go for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. I actually got the Yes - Fragile One Step in the amazon buy 2 get 1 free sale but haven't had the nerve to open it yet. I think I might try to trade it for one of the other One Steps or just sell it at some point...

Would be really curious to see what the inventory is. My guess is they have sold well under 1,000 so far.
 
So some of artists who are writing the liner notes for the various albums have posted sneak peeks on Twitter. Man, some of these songwriters can’t write prose to save their life. I absolutely love Jim James, but that may be the worst music writing I have ever read. For some reason it won’t let me attach the image, but it’s worth reading for the laugh
 
Enaz Fox said:
@Mather and anyone else who's interested in this box. Found this write up from a deadhead on reddit that's super informative and has links to available copies of things.
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Hey, thanks for sharing that - I was planning to post it here after finishing up a work call. I'm just super bummed about the missed opportunity with this, and think it's a pretty blatant cash grab on FOMO.
 
BjorgenFjorgen said:
That must be our very own @Btsvinylfarm.
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what a small, strange world this ever expanding internet is.
Btsvinylfarm said:
Hey, thanks for sharing that - I was planning to post it here after finishing up a work call. I'm just super bummed about the missed opportunity with this, and think it's a pretty blatant cash grab on FOMO.
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My pleasure, thank YOU for the informative write up.
 
MattS said:
So some of artists who are writing the liner notes for the various albums have posted sneak peeks on Twitter. Man, some of these songwriters can’t write prose to save their life. I absolutely love Jim James, but that may be the worst music writing I have ever read. For some reason it won’t let me attach the image, but it’s worth reading for the laugh
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Jim James is featured prominently in a documentary currently on Netflix wherein people describe their acid trips. So there's that.
 
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