Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Skalap said:
Nop, I think I am done with VMP. They can release their Fiona exclusives, QOTSA or Frank Ocean AoTMs or whatever. It's not a question of products now, it's a question of people and the respect they give, or they don't give actually, to some of their most loyal customers.
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I’d like to think I’m this principled but a QOTSA Songs For The Deaf would lead me to ditch all principles...
 
Lee Newman said:
So, as the posts that excuse the cover label and other problems with anthology build over on Facebook, I just want to apologize for being that guy two years back. They really are obnoxious.
Also, how in the hell is the one guy who has been trolling @Enoch not banned already?
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I like these reports, you're like a soldier or an explorer who's been to a strange land I will never see with my own eyes. I sense an exhaustion, and a relief to be back home. Tell us more, brave @Lee Newman
 
Lee Newman said:
So, as the posts that excuse the cover label and other problems with anthology build over on Facebook, I just want to apologize for being that guy two years back. They really are obnoxious.

Also, how in the hell is the one guy who has been trolling @Enoch not banned already?
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I’m not really seeing what’s going on over there, but it’s obvious VMP wanted more control over dissent. Very few posts are created to encourage interaction. They could have done a lot more to encourage this, but they expected the community to generate everything. It’s lame. As I’ve repeatedly said cache is Irwin is the only person generating content that is of any value. They should have hired him, but Storf in the AMA said, we don’t want to hire a videographer.” He’s not really that. He’s actually encouraging everybody to have a deeper understanding and appreciation for that they are listening to.
 
pijo said:
A brief thought on the general anthology thing. As an international I would gladly take an option to receive the whole lot in one delivery if I could save say $30 or such. Would need to wait for the last delivery and I guess it kills the whole game changer thing but yeah. Carry on.
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At least, they could have offered this as an option to reduce the price for Int'l.
 
pijo said:
A brief thought on the general anthology thing. As an international I would gladly take an option to receive the whole lot in one delivery if I could save say $30 or such. Would need to wait for the last delivery and I guess it kills the whole game changer thing but yeah. Carry on.
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So, that's what made this a game changer.
 
pijo said:
A brief thought on the general anthology thing. As an international I would gladly take an option to receive the whole lot in one delivery if I could save say $30 or such. Would need to wait for the last delivery and I guess it kills the whole game changer thing but yeah. Carry on.
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This has gotten me thinking that the whole concept of the Anthology while ambitious really complicates things for them. They need to manage shipping, generate content, and curate a community. They could have just issued a box of six records with some add ons and facebook live events and it would have been a lot easier for them. So far the only thing that they have generated that adds to the experience is the podcast.
 
Dtknuckles said:
This has gotten me thinking that the whole concept of the Anthology while ambitious really complicates things for them. They need to manage shipping, generate content, and curate a community. They could have just issued a box of six records with some add ons and facebook live events and it would have been a lot easier for them. So far the only thing that they have generated that adds to the experience is the podcast.
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Yes, and perhaps I'm being a little unfair. They have a concept to create an experience around this two month period give or take, which includes the staggered shipping of records because we don't appreciate box sets properly otherwise when we get them, we just look at them and maybe listen to the first record then get bored (I'm paraphrasing the marketing there but I think that's the gist). So we'd be missing some context with the podcasts etc and detracting from the shared experience by getting them all at once.
 
pijo said:
Yes, and perhaps I'm being a little unfair. They have a concept to create an experience around this two month period give or take, which includes the staggered shipping of records because we don't appreciate box sets properly otherwise when we get them, we just look at them and maybe listen to the first record then get bored (I'm paraphrasing the marketing there but I think that's the gist). So we'd be missing some context with the podcasts etc and detracting from the shared experience by getting them all at once.
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That would be great, if they really generated content that got you to interact more with each record. They have done some of that, podcast, but where are articles posted to the FB group? They could have encouraged Chris to generate more content. I mean jazz is a highly complex genre musically. Even people that appreciate it usually don't understand what makes it so miraculous that human beings can play this type of music. Ignoring that aspect of the music does a disservice to the musicians that put in thousands of hours to master music theory and the technique of their instruments, or just have a special gift for understanding music. Here they had a chance to change that, but don't even make an attempt to explore that.
 
Dtknuckles said:
That would be great, if they really generated content that got you to interact more with each record. They have done some of that, podcast, but where are articles posted to the FB group? They could have encouraged Chris to generate more content. I mean jazz is a highly complex genre musically. Even people that appreciate it usually don't understand what makes it so miraculous that human beings can play this type of music. Ignoring that aspect of the music does a disservice to the musicians that put in thousands of hours to master music theory and the technique of their instruments, or just have a special gift for understanding music. Here they had a chance to change that, but don't even make an attempt to explore that.
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You're right. I'm not on Facebook so I don't have access to that side of things, which in itself seems a bit clumsy, as a premium product they could include a more appropriate forum for discussion, education etc.
 
Benhawaii said:
im laughing at what i just realized is the funniest thing about the vmp forums destruction. even if they finally ymake a new one and its all shiny n shit - everyone that meant something to that site is now locked in over here. sooooo whats the point of them ever putting a forum back together. this is more hilarious when i see comments on their insta to check out needles and grooves. if i was an owner or employee of vmp id realize that now i have zero control over anything.
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Skalap said:
I am with you. After all the work our administrators had to build this forum in less than 48h, there is NO WAY I go back to a VMP forum.
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Joe Mac said:
Not even to cause mayhem and complain about their inevitable regular fuck ups?
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I would go over there, let people know a great forum existed previously and still technically does over here, no need to start from scratch, you could join us, we have VMP talk and everything else a music fan/nerd/n00b could want
Lee Newman said:
So, as the posts that excuse the cover label and other problems with anthology build over on Facebook, I just want to apologize for being that guy two years back. They really are obnoxious.

Also, how in the hell is the one guy who has been trolling @Enoch not banned already?
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I really don't care
 
pijo said:
Yes, and perhaps I'm being a little unfair. They have a concept to create an experience around this two month period give or take, which includes the staggered shipping of records because we don't appreciate box sets properly otherwise when we get them, we just look at them and maybe listen to the first record then get bored (I'm paraphrasing the marketing there but I think that's the gist). So we'd be missing some context with the podcasts etc and detracting from the shared experience by getting them all at once.
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I really do like the whole staggering the records idea for this anthology, it's a really interesting idea. I'm mostly annoyed that they sold it as this "experience" and so far it's been a dud.

God I kind of hate myself for typing this but I really hope they do it again. Guess I'm not mad enough to not give them more money.

Assuming the rest of the box isn't such a shitshow...
 
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