Colonel4Bin
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Someone’s gotta pay for all that fancy wine!
Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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MikeH
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The Story of Ghetto Records
A story told through seven albums of Latin soul meeting the hardest salsa, modal jazz, and frenetic boogaloo – sounds you’ve ever heard, with special attention to telling Bataan’s story and his groundbreaking label.
www.vinylmeplease.com
All titles except for Los Que Son (which was cut AAA from tapes) and "Drug Story" and "Latin Soul Squaredance" from Drug Story (which were sourced from master tapes) were restored and remastered from needle drops of original vinyl copies by Jason Bitner. With the exception of Drug Story, lacquers for all titles were cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.
bdrummond
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Oh man, what I've been able to find has been great. It's too bad there's no customs to navigate.The Story of Ghetto Records
A story told through seven albums of Latin soul meeting the hardest salsa, modal jazz, and frenetic boogaloo – sounds you’ve ever heard, with special attention to telling Bataan’s story and his groundbreaking label.
All titles except for Los Que Son (which was cut AAA from tapes) and "Drug Story" and "Latin Soul Squaredance" from Drug Story (which were sourced from master tapes) were restored and remastered from needle drops of original vinyl copies by Jason Bitner. With the exception of Drug Story, lacquers for all titles were cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.
MikeH
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solid music for sure. a bit disappointing it's mostly needledrops and pressed at GZ. all the other now-again anthologies have been broken out I think, so would be shocked if this one is truly exclusive.
it does seem like VMP is reserving the right to repress every anthology from now on since it says "first edition".
MikeH
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says GZ.
4080
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Really enjoying the music on this one but going to be a pass, price just a little too high, with exchange rates and duty it's going to push it to around $60 (Canadian dollars) per record, I like the music but not that much!!
Hopefully Now Again reissues these in the near future, they can be pricy here but not that bad!!
Hopefully Now Again reissues these in the near future, they can be pricy here but not that bad!!
yukbon
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they'll really start to bleed international customers if they do. the shipping is a huge draw for non-US customers, why even fucking bother if that's going to spike.
avecigrec
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100% this.
Selaws
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I would be one that dropped it instantly if this happened.
VMP's draw as an international used to be that they were cheaper to begin with (especially in the days on the non-exclusives and equipment). Then they upped the prices but the lack of shipping costs still made them cheaper most the time. The pricing is now at the high end so add shipping in there and its just not worth it.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Has there been confirmation that this is now the case for Canadians buying the Anthologies or is it just limited to EU and UK?
bdrummond
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The wording on it seems like anyone who's considered "international".
One person on reddit mentioned they got hit with $60 duty in Canada.
bdrummond
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Yeah, if they start doing customs I for one can confirm I'm absolutely not going to continue with my membership now, or in the future.
It's already pushing the limits of what I'd be willing to spend on any album...add duties on top of that there's no possible way I can justify it.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Hopefully they make it explicit on the Anthology sign-up page instead of doing the usual of emailing something out a week before the box is going to ship
bdrummond
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I believe they've updated their descriptions to state that international orders on anthologies are subject to duties.
avecigrec
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But after receiving a bunch of international orders, of course!
bdrummond
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And offering store credit less than the duty charge. Don't forget that.
Mather
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Yeah I mean on the face of it I have no real issues with a company not paying international duty. Almost none do. But it's the fact that they change their policies AFTER everyone has paid and right as items are being shipped out. Like seriously with this? Again? Just wait until the next anthology to make this change instead of screwing over your international customers with massive unexpected fees. I don't get who makes these decisions. I guarantee you it ain't Pauly, who has to deal with the blowback from them all.