Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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jfitzy
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Yeah I can see this sticking around for a while just like Vanguard.
bdrummond
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I admittedly really liked Vanguard. This, not so much. About as niche as it gets.
yukbon
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it's a travesty that vanguard has not sold better, that set goes hard. the podcast on it is really great too.
popthropologist
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I love that VMP is willing to press up a bunch of copies of underground music, market be damned. I have zero interest in cassette rips to vinyl—it’s like me making a Blu-ray of something I taped off of cable TV in the 90s—but the overall idea is admirable.
yukbon
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there's apparently a demand for it. Reddit - Dive into anything
MikeH
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Rappcats and Now-Again are also selling it on their sites so it’s more than just VMP’s built in audience. I think it’ll stick around for a bit but do agree it’s a cool piece of history and the stuff that sometimes it’s cool for VMP to take on. I’d take a chance if I was more into rap. I just never spin my rap records anymore
Mather
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Well, it's a Reddit community. There's a Reddit community for everything. How many of those posters buy records, and how many of THOSE people are going to drop $300 on a box set? I bet this ends up in swaps at some point. Still think it's cool they're doing it though...
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JonnyH
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There's 8 comments and half of them are talking about how it's overpriced.
Mather
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Haha that's actually the one thing about it I thought was kinda reasonable! The price could be a lot higher considering the price of vinyl right now.
avecigrec
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I would definitely snag this if it showed up in swaps. But that's about it.
[edit to add:] It's definitely something I would love to have from an archival standpoint, but not something I'd see myself setting out to listen to very often.
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Skalap
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Very same. I don't know nothing about Memphis rap but could swap an aotm for this anthology.
Nee Lewman
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Same amount of vinyl for 279 as the 349 miles box. I would probably bite on Miles at that price. I know licensing/mastering or whatever, don't care.
Hemotep
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I streamed the DJ Zirk today and it was enjoyable. I like the southern flavor of rap, but I see this as a wasted opportunity. Y'all talking about wanting "lost sounds found" and thinking this is cool for the archival aspect but still aren't gonna buy it. There are better ways to preserve music than an over priced boxset of cassette tape transfers to vinyl. Even liking what I've heard and imagining I'll like most of what's on here, I'm still gonna be the scrooge that says this is a stupid fucking anthology and a complete waste of the first rap set. It's like they're trying to impress some fictional music nerd. For the musicians' sakes I hope it does sell, but we all know it's not going to and that just makes it sad and disappointing. If they wanted to go this route then it should be $150-180 max.
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Nee Lewman
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The sets aren't priced to move and mostly don't. It's clearly not their goal with these. This one is at least interesting. I'd buy a 50 cd box, but it's not worth the space or price for the vinyl for me.
Hemotep
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I agree with you on the last point. But I don't know what their goal would be otherwise, since they aren't doing this just to be altruistic. And my point is mostly that who cares if it's interesting, since that doesn't seem to make anyone "interested".