Or we just read a magazine article that was released today from the club that we subscribe to by the person largely responsible for selecting Classics. But sure. Obsessed works too.
“Stax” across the knuckles of his left hand
and “”Volt” across the right . That way people know he’s boss when he’s riding his adult tricycle around Minnesota.
That's exactly the problem. Some of us actually want them to press Classic releases instead of Stax leftovers or Al Jarreau.
Yep, great pick. I'm not sure what that has to do with complaining about the others or criticising Storf's claims of getting VMP to press stuff just to fill in holes in his collection.
Yeah this why my initial reason for sharing. Storf has gone on record saying he picks records that he’s personally interested in which is well and good if the record can be objectively solid for the majority but when you get access to Miles Davis and your instinct is to press Sorcerer because you don’t have it we begin to venture into seriously unprofessional curation ethics. Now we know why Stax has been overly saturated the past few years because Storf has been on a personal mission to collect every Stax record ever! Like come on, curating should be focused on the people, the users, and keeping the picks fresh not to fulfill personal collection goals.
I love the All Music reviews. In Roon, I think All Music's reviews are the ones that auto-populate when you go to listen to albums and it's SO funny to read some of those reviews.This All Music review for Glow is something to behold.
Glow - Al Jarreau | Album | AllMusic
Glow by Al Jarreau released in 1976. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.www.allmusic.com
I think the problem is that the point of the Classics Channel for VMP is to pick classic albums and get them pressed in the "ultimate pressing of the album" (VMP's words not mine). When the picks are chosen, the understanding is that they are supposed to be top tier albums in that format and not to solely fill the gaps in the curator's collection. It seems very self serving and not to the intent of the channel, which is to serve its members.
This is quite literally the only time I’ve ever weighed in on Storf, I have no issues with him other than he shouldn’t be half-assing ROTM curation so he can fill personal holes in his collection. I don’t understand how that can’t be interpreted to be unprofessional business ethics? He’s been employed to curate records for somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 people and forgoing that responsibility to make sure he personally has a cool copy of sorcerer or every STAX record ever is nothing less than grossly incompetent and disturbingly selfish behavior from a company representative.
That comparison with a record store employee is a huge stretch. People are subscribed to a service (mostly multi-month) to get a curated pick to their doorstep every month. Curation should be a big part of VMP's business, so pushing a record you wanted to fill your personal collection onto the shelves of 10-30k people is not the best practice. We can all agree or disagree on curation, but the motivation behind sending such a huge amount of people an album shouldn't be "I needed it to fill a gap in my Kallax".
That just about sums it up for me too. Just because he can't find a clean copy of an album on discogs for $20 doesn't mean that VMP has to press "the definitive version" of it. He has stopped curating to introduce people to music, which is his job, and made it all about himself somehow.
at least they wont be until next year
Fair enough! I probably wouldn't like it either. But I also wouldn't write an article about how the only Stax albums I'm missing are ones that I'm getting my company to repress because I'm missing them hah.