The matter with black is that they think they need a color variant to justify people repurchasing some of the albums. They always add the “you can’t get thus variant anywhere else” FOMO tag on there. Some people think WAN will also get a black vinyl release soon.
Yeah, its been 30 years so is probably due one. I thought they may do something with Dead Set this year too after they released the 10/09 and 10/10 Acoustic Warfield sets.
That's a huge bummer. Getting several discs replaced will be an absolute pain in the ass. To see that it was this ridiculously overpriced with what appears to be no quality control is just awful.
Yeah, with this particular bunch of discs that I have here... I'm going to demand a refund. There's too many different things wrong.
So I buy a lot of albums from Acoustic Sounds because I live 150 miles from their place and basically audiophile records show up next day. I've run into a lot of problems with QRP pressings. Noise, warps, labels covering run out grooves, off gassing from old poly sleeves, jackets where the glue has separated. They always make good on it, but QRP does produce less than stellar records. Granted my sample size isn't enormous. I'd say they are batting .200 out of 10 or 15 albums. It happens to all pressing plants at some point. Bet they were in a hurry with this GD pressing, hence the issues.
[insert "what would they do if they had more time" joke here]
And seeing I have little knowledge of them I’m fully qualified to record a podcast for it too
Those Rhino’s are great. I know some of them are hard to come by but if you find em at retail,they’re a great bang for your buck. I am thinking of grabbing the 2020 Chris Bellman cut RTI pressed reissue of Aoxomoxoa my local has for $22 currently.
I've got the 2011 aoxomoxoa and it's up there with the worst sounding albums in my collection. I'm not sure how to describe it really. Kinda like playing a cd on the car stereo then shutting the doors and windows and standing outside the car to listen to it. It's utterly bizarrely shit
i think QRP might be overworking themselves... they got analogue productions, doing plating (not pressing) for VMP, VMP Anthologies that use them, VMP Classics, and the acoustic sounds series now, they are pressing more records and unless we get more high quality record pressing plants that wont change... the major issue with Gz isn't that they are the worst plant or unusable, i dont think any plant is always horrible.. but if you are producing too many records you are going to have less QC and more duds in the stampers for example
The reviews for this 2020 reissue have been positive (though there aren’t too many yet).
It seems pretty evident that levels of QC exist at each plant and that is priced into the cost of records, but people seem to not realize it. Supposedly about half of the SRX vinyl that MMJ made were rejected by QC which is part of (but not all of) why they are priced so high. Meanwhile, the BN75 had so many QC issues but they were priced at something like $12 MSRP so that's why. They pressed at a cheaper plant who didn't do much by way of QC.