Vinyl Me Please Country

Also they posted his liner notes on the site so I gave them a gander. Man does he shoot himself in the foot. Every time he writes something that has you semi worried that an average writer might emerge there’s just a line, sentence or paragraph that’s pure cringe.
 
Every record that follows At Folsom Prison, whether it’s VMP Country album 2, or VMP Country album 100, will owe a debt to At Folsom Prison.
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no albums before folsom prison... i'm going to hold them to this
Internally, I’ve talked of the first four albums as part of like a VMP Country extended universe: all of the first four albums really speak to each other like they’re the Thor movie leading up to Avengers or something.
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again i feel like storf is just vinyl junkies except slightly less high
They all connect in ways that are both obvious and not, even though they are from different eras and different performers. We’re excited to announce the next three when we announce our April through June Records of the Month with all the other tracks. And then, after the first four, we have a lot of different albums I’m really excited about that I will not share here.
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meanwhile rolling stone already announced april and may... OOPS.avi
We look forward to presenting all of the different spectrums of country music through VMP Country: stone-cold classics, deep-cut gems, out-of-print rarities, and new releases.
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ok so folsom prison is classic, sturgil is new releases, and i guess willie is either deep cut or out of print, so that means it has to be the one left out
 
duke86fan said:
no albums before folsom prison... i'm going to hold them to this
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I don't think this is the correct interpretation. He's just saying that every record they release in VMP Country will somehow owe a debt to Folsom... which is still a really weird (storf) thing to say even though it's a great album by a great artist.

duke86fan said:
ok so folsom prison is classic, sturgil is new releases, and i guess willie is either deep cut or out of print, so that means it has to be the one left out
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Metamodern was first released in 2014 and possibly not officially in-print, even if readily accessible on the secondary market. I'm not sure if it fits in that bucket or "stone-cold classic" in storf's view. That said, I hope you're technically right because unlike Essentials, this shouldn't be a track that presses truly new albums, but it seems like we'll get at least a few a year.
 
waruv said:
Sturgill is 17 bucks on Amazon right now, several years old, and is a rather strong seller as is at that. What category does this fall into with a 40+ dollar curated service? I get Folsom and Shotgun but that’s a headscrstcher of a choice unless it does actually get newly mastered and is a marked improvement.
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It’s $33 if you go in for a year. But yeah it’s pricey.
 
sarcasticfairyprincess said:
Does anyone else feel like this sub is just going to be country for newbs or am I being shitty and elitist by saying that
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It is substantially more mainstream in terms of artist choice than any other track’s introduction and really that any track is today, but I think it’ll take time to see where it goes. There is some validity into going for a more general intro and then getting more in depth. I bet we will know more when the next cycle is announced.

I doubt I’ll ever be a VMP customer so my word isn’t worth much but it does feel like a bit of an odd direction if this is the usual.
 
sarcasticfairyprincess said:
Does anyone else feel like this sub is just going to be country for newbs or am I being shitty and elitist by saying that
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no. my first thought was 'what country fan - even a casual country fan - doesn't have or at least isn't pretty familiar with these records, these artists, and their importance?'. these are fantastic choices, no doubt, and any newbie couldn't do much better than starting out with these albums. i am excited for those types of folks to be able to dive in this way. but for anyone who's been around and appreciates country music in the slightest and might have been on the fence about this sub, i can't imagine they'll pull many of those people in until they put out something less ubiquitous. and to top it off none of these albums are worth $45 or whatever the fuck they're charging these days when new and used copies can be had for much less. vmp definitely swung for the n00bs (and also the press/marketing, who can use the big names to get the attention and clicks).
 
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