Vinyl Me Please Anthology

[bdrummond]

What's crazy is they could've sold this at a normal price, and pressed more units and there would've been a very rare chance this would not have sold out, but instead the pressed a limited enough quantity to stoke that FOMO and charge an arm and a leg for it.

 

[Rowan]

And at least $70CAD duties for Canadian members.
It's taking the piss to put it in British terms.

Plus shipping as an international. That's some wild, wild pricing right there.

 

[Selaws]

Wild.

 

[bdrummond]

Plus shipping as an international. That's some wild, wild pricing right there.

Yeah, I never factored that in but it's definitely pushing those records into the $100+ category for Canadians, which I have maybe payed like 3-4x for a record in my life, and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that these are records I would not pay that much for.

 

[Ghost]

Do they get shit on in their Discord for doing things like this or is everyone like "WOWWW INCREDIBLE DEAL!"

 

[Rowan]

Yeah, I never factored that in but it's definitely pushing those records into the $100+ category for Canadians, which I have maybe payed like 3-4x for a record in my life, and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that these are records I would not pay that much for.

Quick bit of maths but about £66 per album for the euros which is $85 per record.

And I still think this will sell out

 

[Nee Lewman]

The anthologies have always been overpriced. This scales with current pricing. VMP is making it real easy this quarter to not look back when my current sub ends. They’ll need to kill q4 to get me to consider resubbing.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

And of course they're using the lazy "wide-spine" maneuver they always give to hip-hop instead of a gatefold with some added flair.

 

[bdrummond]

Quick bit of maths but about £66 per album for the euros which is $85 per record.

And I still think this will sell out

Yes, it likely will because they made it limited enough to put FOMO into overdrive.
Like, $40 per record I would've probably taken a hard look at it, and if you pressed a ton more at that price it likely would've still sold out. This is insanity.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Do they get shit on in their Discord for doing things like this or is everyone like "WOWWW INCREDIBLE DEAL!"

It’s mostly emoji vomit and best thing ever.

 

[bdrummond]

It’s mostly emoji vomit and best thing ever.

I can imagine, and this shit is making me really lean towards never subbing for VMP again.
Insane pricing that is only getting more insane each year, and enough people convincing themselves that it's okay because it's a collectors item.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I just checked, there is a discussion about gouging. lol. Vmp may have finally pissed off the hardcore.

 

[NewsFedora]

It’s mostly emoji vomit and best thing ever.

It really isn’t. Pretty lukewarmish over the price, tbh. Maybe not as angry or bitter as over here with the N&G crew but definitely not people jumping for joy at dropping over $300 for five albums.

 

[Hemotep]

$66 a record for members lmfaooooooo. Maybe some of y'all feel these records are worth it but $66 for Cam'ron has me howlin

Yeah, whoever is playing $74 as a non-member for Camron needs to meet me in an alley so I can rob them of the money they don't care about.

 

[NewsFedora]

Another thing that hasn’t been mentioned here is PayPal is currently not available on VMP’s site for some reason. So folks who might’ve used something like PayPal Credit’s no interest for 6 months plan are SoL at the moment.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Another thing that hasn’t been mentioned here is PayPal is currently not available on VMP’s site for some reason. So folks who might’ve used something like PayPal Credit’s no interest for 6 months plan are SoL at the moment.

Maybe PayPal is like you guys sure do refund a lot of money… maybe we shouldn’t be doing business with you?

 

[bdrummond]

Another thing that hasn’t been mentioned here is PayPal is currently not available on VMP’s site for some reason. So folks who might’ve used something like PayPal Credit’s no interest for 6 months plan are SoL at the moment.

The next step is to create VMP Financial where you can purchase anthologies at low interest rates.

 

[Nee Lewman]

It really isn’t. Pretty lukewarmish over the price, tbh. Maybe not as angry or bitter as over here with the N&G crew but definitely not people jumping for joy at dropping over $300 for five albums.

@Ghost ’s question seemed more general but was provoked by this. I stand by the majority of comments over there are emoji vomit best thing Eva. Hell there are people that say the weird ass nonesuch roll out was the best thing they’ve ever done.

 

[Hemotep]

What's crazy is they could've sold this at a normal price, and pressed more units and there would've been a very rare chance this would not have sold out, but instead the pressed a limited enough quantity to stoke that FOMO and charge an arm and a leg for it.

This doesn't even give me the slightest bit of Fomo and The Fix is one of my top five hip-hop albums.

 

[bdrummond]

This doesn't even give me the slightest bit of Fomo and The Fix is one of my top five hip-hop albums.

Yeah, a non picture disc version of BFT too. I would've been all over this.

I'm going to wait it out, I feel like that non-picture disc is going to come in the next year or two.