Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Mather said:
Or me, someone who has none but wanted to get into them and saw an opportunity to pretty much cover all my AAA GD bases in one shot (after also adding Allah and Mars Mofi). But aside from me there's probably about... 20 other people who are in the same boat. So I'm not sure what the plan was for the other 7480 copies.
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I've been toying with it in and off. My copy of WMD is ropey and my American Beauty not far behind but that price is insane. Wonder if the Herbie discount code will work on the Dead box
 
Mather said:
Yeah the biggest issue for me is I don't have Empyrean Isles and my copy of Maiden isn't great. And it would cost about $400 CAD just to get a good recent AAA pressing of those two.
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The Music Matters Maiden Voyage suffers from the dreaded (but overblown on a certain forum) warble and is taken from a second gen tape. Look for a Toshiba pressing that was later and is from a small series they did which reproduced the original sleeve and inner down to every detail, even the label, and shows no Toshiba identification anywhere. Then you will be done for Maiden Voyage!
 
RHANDMJ said:
The Music Matters Maiden Voyage suffers from the dreaded (but overblown on a certain forum) warble and is taken from a second gen tape. Look for a Toshiba pressing that was later and is from a small series they did which reproduced the original sleeve and inner down to every detail, even the label, and shows no Toshiba identification anywhere. Then you will be done for Maiden Voyage!
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Thanks for that info, I didn't know about that warble although god knows I've certainly seen the chatter on THAT forum regarding various Tone Poet releases that may or may not suffer from it. I was looking at that very Toshiba earlier today and wondering about the quality. Right now the only copy on cogs that would make sense is $100 CAD shipped, which I think is a bit high. But I'm going to keep my eyes open for that one for sure, hopefully find it around $80 or less...

EDIT - Actually there are a couple of "promo" copies for sale at a more reasonable price oddly enough...
 
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Mather said:
Yeah the cheapest Toshiba Maiden is currently $100 shipped. That's too much.
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I know its a moot point when we are talking about a rare occurrence, but OG's do occasionally pop up decent price if lucky. I got my OG Maiden Voyage (which sounds insanely good, certainly a VG+) for less than $100 a year ago now, so it is possible.

Have a look at the King pressing as well, which looks to be 1977. King tends to be better than Toshiba anyway and there looks to be some on there which you can get direct from Japan for $13 (VG+ as well!)
 
RHANDMJ said:
The Music Matters Maiden Voyage suffers from the dreaded (but overblown on a certain forum) warble and is taken from a second gen tape.
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Never heard this on my copy, but haven't really listened for it, either (plus, I'm probably not as "discerning" as the SHF types, lol). Do you know offhand where it is supposedly most noticeable?
 
Mather said:
I'm pretty sure the WMD and AB Mofi 2 LP45s are both getting repressed. Just grab those. I can't speak to them directly but the Allah and Mars Mofi are both superb.
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Yep—both are awaiting repress. If they are on Music Direct’s site, they will be getting a repress! That’s the general consensus, otherwise they are OOP.
 
I’m guessing this will be 400 or 425 regular price and then around 360 or so VMP member price. Since VMP store and Anthology are both on Shopify now, I don’t know that there will be a code...think it will just be members price.

I can’t actually envision what would be in the box to justify me paying anywhere near that price. Im a Herbie fan but have good pressings of most of my favorite albums of his. And the ones I don’t have, I don’t entirely feel the need to drop that amount of money on. I’d probably spring for a better Empyrean Islands and Maiden Voyage but unless the box is like $250, I’m probably out on this one.

Im glad people are really excited about it though! It’s a great choice for an anthology and hoping they have some great picks. I think it would be kinda hard to screw up.
 
Just wondering people's thoughts as to whether Empyrean Isles is gonna get a Tone Poet style repress? A decent copy has been elusive so I think I'd rather hope and wait rather than spend big on the box set.
 
VinylGuy said:
Just wondering people's thoughts as to whether Empyrean Isles is gonna get a Tone Poet style repress? A decent copy has been elusive so I think I'd rather hope and wait rather than spend big on the box set.
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Seems possibly still tied up by Music Matters license wise, but I think it will get a more reasonable reissue again eventually. Hard to say how long. I love that one and picked it up back when MM was reasonable.
 
Dead set was 14 LPs, this one is supposed to be only 8 LP right? That should mean it’s not quite as much as the Dead set, probably similar to the Stax set maybe a smidge more
 
VinylGuy said:
Just wondering people's thoughts as to whether Empyrean Isles is gonna get a Tone Poet style repress? A decent copy has been elusive so I think I'd rather hope and wait rather than spend big on the box set.
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I think all those Music Matters flagship blue notes will eventually get a nice reissueby Blue Note, but it won’t be anytime soon. Probably a few years at least
 
keylime_5 said:
Dead set was 14 LPs, this one is supposed to be only 8 LP right? That should mean it’s not quite as much as the Dead set, probably similar to the Stax set maybe a smidge more
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Hopefully it's not too far off priced the Stax Anthology boxset! I think it will be close to the Motown Anthology Boxset though (USD$350).
 
keylime_5 said:
Dead set was 14 LPs, this one is supposed to be only 8 LP right? That should mean it’s not quite as much as the Dead set, probably similar to the Stax set maybe a smidge more
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Except the price bump. I’m skeptical because this was supposed to be released in August, and it seems there was a delay. I wonder if that had anything to do with the recent changes. I don’t think it’ll be the same as the Dead for that reason, but who knows.
 
bobomac2 said:
Except the price bump. I’m skeptical because this was supposed to be released in August, and it seems there was a delay. I wonder if that had anything to do with the recent changes. I don’t think it’ll be the same as the Dead for that reason, but who knows.
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Yeah, but with the price bump I'm expecting maybe $44ish per record instead of $35. $480 would be like $56 per LP which is absurd even for the VMP price-bump standards.
 
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