Vinyl Me Please Anthology

bdrummond said:
The scales are completely unbalanced now between "I want this album" and "I am straight up not having a good time".
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that's what got me too. i dipped back in for Lee Morgan but VMP just stopped being fun for me. It became less about enjoying a record from them and more about dreading the need to open a package right away and check for defects so i could try to put in for a replacement quickly. same with the Anthologies. It sucks because when they are good they are good. I love the BN one. Zamrock and Tribe are also great after I got the pressing issues sorted with both. Herbie tempted me but I couldn't bring myself to deal with the possibility of more pressing problems and replacements.
 
bdrummond said:
Honestly, it's been hard to leave but it gets easier and easier every month over the past four months. It's honestly too much money for way too much bullshit. The scales are completely unbalanced now between "I want this album" and "I am straight up not having a good time".
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Most of us have been in this situation…it has been nice not having to deal with this month after month and saving money to curate your own collection to your interests though ;)
 
Crabbers said:
Most of us have been in this situation…it has been nice not having to deal with this month after month and saving money to curate your own collection to your interests though ;)
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Yup. For example I went to an antique store the other day and bought a few of > $10 used albums (mostly Erroll Garner) and while you never know how it's going to sound until it's on your turntable, it's still much more fun doing so and at least if the record sounds like shit, then you've only spent under $10 and the time it takes for a good cleaning, not $50 fucking human dollars. I loved the discovery part of VMP, Grizzly Bear was one of those discoveries, but the only thing it left me with was a feeling that I wanted to get a non-VMP version of the album.
 
bdrummond said:
Yup. For example I went to an antique store the other day and bought a few of > $10 used albums (mostly Erroll Garner) and while you never know how it's going to sound until it's on your turntable, it's still much more fun doing so and at least if the record sounds like shit, then you've only spent under $10 and the time it takes for a good cleaning, not $50 fucking human dollars. I loved the discovery part of VMP, Grizzly Bear was one of those discoveries, but the only thing it left me with was a feeling that I wanted to get a non-VMP version of the album.
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I think the non-VMP sounds pretty darn good and probably can be had for under $20.
 
bdrummond said:
Yup. For example I went to an antique store the other day and bought a few of > $10 used albums (mostly Erroll Garner) and while you never know how it's going to sound until it's on your turntable, it's still much more fun doing so and at least if the record sounds like shit, then you've only spent under $10 and the time it takes for a good cleaning, not $50 fucking human dollars. I loved the discovery part of VMP, Grizzly Bear was one of those discoveries, but the only thing it left me with was a feeling that I wanted to get a non-VMP version of the album.
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I think the non-VMP sounds pretty darn good and probably can be had for under $20.
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Yep…and lately I’ve been selling a few things and have found most of them to be vmp ones going first because I have no real attachment to them or can find them cheaper elsewhere and sell off the vmp variant cuz people pay stupid prices for them for some reason
 
MikeH said:
so uh....this is a fun one! someone on reddit is saying that VMP is not issuing any replacement discs for Vanguard. only replacement sleeves. which is insane.
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Jesus christ...Of the 8 records in the Metal Blade box I needed replacements for 6 of them, one of which needed 4 attempts before finally getting a flat copy. This is insane.
 
MikeH said:
so uh....this is a fun one! someone on reddit is saying that VMP is not issuing any replacement discs for Vanguard. only replacement sleeves. which is insane.
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Isn't that a pretty easy situation? They could not delivery on what they sold so if they don’t get that corrected by providing replacements they have to take the box back and reimburse
 
Jan said:
Isn't that a pretty easy situation? They could not delivery on what they sold so if they don’t get that corrected by providing replacements they have to take the box back and reimburse
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Yup and it's what I will do if it ever comes to it
 
I wonder if this is a new hard-line stance by VMP given the last several months of replacements after replacements. Probably feel like they're just sending out way too many replacements. What will be left after everyone cancels is those on reddit that swear their copies have no issues, or that the crackle is just part of "the vinyl experience".
 
The last records I bought - ‘Endtroducing’ with one badly warped disc (GZ) and it took me three copies of Grant Green’s ‘Idle Moments’ to get an an acceptable copy. Even though the Blue Note Classics series are pressed at Optimal, it’s a total lottery whether you get a decent copy. Check out Discogs for some very angry people taking about it. I also saw some dude from Luaka Bop explaining the horrible problems they had with Pallas and RTI with the Floating Points LP.
It seems like a really messy time to be in the vinyl business.
 
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