yukbon
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"Can we keep the high cost of sending a large a heavy item, but somehow make it more expensive and somehow - and this is important - slower and more inconvenient?"
Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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"Can we keep the high cost of sending a large a heavy item, but somehow make it more expensive and somehow - and this is important - slower and more inconvenient?"
dhodo
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If this is true, it seems like they must have renewed some licenses, because they only seem to be repressing some of the most popular ones, which are certainly ones that they would have hit their limit on.
yukbon
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I'm also thinking about this. I've heard the vmp version is actually quite nice. Been considering hitting up the 'cogs aftermarket for a copy.
heavysoulbrutha
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VMP Anthology
Go beyond the liner notes with the VMP Anthology podcast, the audio accompaniment to VMP Anthology, a series of box sets from Vinyl Me, Please.
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duke86fan
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i kinda want to watch all of these just see HOW bad storf can beVMP Anthology
Go beyond the liner notes with the VMP Anthology podcast, the audio accompaniment to VMP Anthology, a series of box sets from Vinyl Me, Please.
bother
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VMP Anthology
Go beyond the liner notes with the VMP Anthology podcast, the audio accompaniment to VMP Anthology, a series of box sets from Vinyl Me, Please.
For the lazy: https://vinylme.libsyn.com/rss
TCell
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This Herbie Anthology has me in a quandary. I like it a lot; I think the album choices show the breadth of his career, and the price point seems reasonable, but...I still haven't pulled the trigger. My dilemma, like many have already voiced, is I already have Headhunters and Takin' Off on vinyl. (And I have Maiden Voyage, 1+1, and The River on CD.) Seems like a lot of duplication to get 3 records I would frequently spin on vinyl (Maiden Voyage, The Piano, and Live Under The Sky).
Interestingly, I feel it also exposes the predicament VMP is in with doing an anthology like this though:
1) Herbie Hancock picked the albums himself! Which sounds awesome, except...could they not have told him that Takin' Off was just reissued? Or that everyone already has an awesome copy of Head Hunters? Or that 1+1 is just a good album and not that artistically interesting? Of course not, it's Herbie freakin' Hancock! I think he had free reign to pick whatever albums he wanted (except maybe not the Warner albums) and these are what he picked to represent his career. Hard to tell the guy he can't pick the albums to represent his own career, just because they're already available on vinyl.
2) The Price. $349. Seems great, except...to get it that cheap they needed to get it pressed at GZ. If you're creating the definitive Herbie box set, that's where we're getting it pressed? If it was $399 and pressed at QRP I would've been way more excited. (I am now a pressing plant snob. smh)
Sorry, I am having an existential crisis about this, and had to rant to people who might understand. When I explained it to my wife, she just raised her eyebrows and said, "Really? You need more fuckin' records?"
Interestingly, I feel it also exposes the predicament VMP is in with doing an anthology like this though:
1) Herbie Hancock picked the albums himself! Which sounds awesome, except...could they not have told him that Takin' Off was just reissued? Or that everyone already has an awesome copy of Head Hunters? Or that 1+1 is just a good album and not that artistically interesting? Of course not, it's Herbie freakin' Hancock! I think he had free reign to pick whatever albums he wanted (except maybe not the Warner albums) and these are what he picked to represent his career. Hard to tell the guy he can't pick the albums to represent his own career, just because they're already available on vinyl.
2) The Price. $349. Seems great, except...to get it that cheap they needed to get it pressed at GZ. If you're creating the definitive Herbie box set, that's where we're getting it pressed? If it was $399 and pressed at QRP I would've been way more excited. (I am now a pressing plant snob. smh)
Sorry, I am having an existential crisis about this, and had to rant to people who might understand. When I explained it to my wife, she just raised her eyebrows and said, "Really? You need more fuckin' records?"
Mather
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I turned to my wife yesterday and told her that I needed to buy a mannequin. She paused momentarily and then with a deep sigh of resignation asked why. I replied "To put my Stormtrooper armor on." She gazed up at me with a look that I can only describe as pity as she nodded her head slowly and said "Okay honey."
At first I thought the pity was for me, but now I'm starting to think it was actually for her.
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Rowan
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Honestly... on average how many other days in the week would her response have been 'but what am I supposed to wear?'
Diaper Baby Escape Plan
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No pity for the mannequin?
NathanRicaud
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I am also a pressing plant snob! That’s why I’ve stopped getting the BlueNote80 pressings and only want to focus on the Tone Poet series from Blue Note! Outside of VMP, the only thing I ever want to buy are the current Acoustic Sounds verve reissues, which are pressed at QRP, any future Analogue Productions pressing and any MoFi One-Step pressings! I care a lot about where a record is pressed now, so I’m not really buying any new release vinyl at the moment.
The new Chet Baker VMP exclusives being pressed at RTI, mastered by Kevin Gray and being AAA definitely was a strong reason why I purchased them. The BlueNote80 for the most part are also AAA and mastered by Kevin Gray but the pressing plant they use is bad with QC. So many of my BlueNote80’s are severely warped and I can’t just get replacements for them/a refund easily like I do with VMP!
I am not even purchasing Gorillaz’ new album. I’m going to wait to hear the reviews of all the pressings first. Big mistake purchasing the Phoebe Bridges, Lido Pimienta and Rina Sawayama albums, which all sounded quite flat!
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Diaper Baby Escape Plan
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Only MOFI's one steps? Not their regular fare?
NathanRicaud
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Yeah, only MoFi One-Steps because outside of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis MoFi reissues, nothing MoFi release on vinyl interests me much. I don’t like the range they have unfortunately, and getting MoFi’s are expensive to purchase in Australia. A single LP is AUD$85 and a 2LP is AUD$125. MoFi’s shipping is too expensive whereas Acoustic Sounds shipping is good. I’ve purchased some MoFi’s on Acoustic Sounds, but yeah...overall I’m not interested in MoFi’s general catalogue. I’d rather pay AUD$289 for a One-Step I really like!
I’m interested in the T-Rex “Electric Warrior” 45RPM pressing that MoFi recently did, especially as I love the song “Get It On”, but it’s AUD$125 and I dunno, it’s too expensive. If it was AUD$100, I’d purchase it!
Rowan
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All of my BN80s have been impeccable. Every single one.
Diaper Baby Escape Plan
Well-Known Diaper Baby
Oh, okay so what you mean is that current selections available from MOFI do not interest you.
Because, surely, if MOFI did a release you liked in the future then you'd pick it. When MOFI presses some Britney, you'd be all over it.
NathanRicaud
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Most of mine have been badly warped, I’ve had to get them professionally flattened
I sent a message to Blue Note and showed them videos and told them I’m not happy and that I’ve had to spend a lot of money flattening the records. Waiting to see how they will respond to me!
23/25 of the Tone Poets have been impeccable though! The Lee Morgan Tone Poet I got was severely warped so I got that flattened and the recent Joe Henderson pressing was faulty as it had pops and my copy skipped too!
NathanRicaud
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Yeah, if MoFi did Britney, I’d be all over Blackout, In The Zone and Circus!
