Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Urbs_hott said:
colour variant= store exclusive
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Plenty of AOTMs are just color variants... The National, Arctic Monkeys, Mitski, Betty Davis.

The one year exclusive window is that the title is only available for members to buy for 1 year. Nothing to do with the title being available through others.

I'm just glad to be getting the color version and not having to pay more retail for the standard black version.
 
dbarila said:
Plenty of AOTMs are just color variants... The National, Arctic Monkeys, Mitski, Betty Davis.

The one year exclusive window is that the title is only available for members to buy for 1 year. Nothing to do with the title being available through others.

I'm just glad to be getting the color version and not having to pay more retail for the standard black version.
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Yeah but i feel like Black is the new “splatter” - I mean i can’t get a vinyl without it being “Lemon pie Sun Sparkle”
Black is über cool now
 
Urbs_hott said:
I don’t think it’s necessarily a matter of surprise. A few of us called out the possibility that VMP might have been trying to grab up three months of cash from people(right at the end of the business quarter), making it seem like it was the only way to ensure that they receive a highly sought after record(fomo at its finest), right before it was announced that it would be widely available, and if anything it’s just kind of amazing that we were right.

This is the kind of thing that people would normally blast them for but the reaction has been pretty mild If you ask me. I’ve only been a customer for about 2 years on and off, but this is the shadiest thing I have seen VMP pull BY FAR. And it’s not even personal for me. I don’t care for QOTSA and I won’t be grabbing any version of the record.
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I'm not saying I respect what they did.

I guess it seemed so blatantly obvious to me it didn't seem as deceptive. However, I think that's because I'm so plugged in here that I a) knew there had to be a reason (that wasn't for the customer) that they announced three at once and b) became aware of the STRONG implication that standard versions were coming from people on here sharing that QOTSA email.

I suppose for the people who saw VMP's ads and didn't know either of those things it certainly seems a lot worse.
 
dhodo said:
I'm not saying I respect what they did.

I guess it seemed so blatantly obvious to me it didn't seem as deceptive. However, I think that's because I'm so plugged in here that I a) knew there had to be a reason (that wasn't for the customer) that they announced three at once and b) became aware of the STRONG implication that standard versions were coming from people on here sharing that QOTSA email.

I suppose for the people who saw VMP's ads and didn't know either of those things it certainly seems a lot worse.
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I’ll be honest I didn’t think that the standard would come out the very next month! I figured feb/march time lol!
 
dbarila said:
The one year exclusive window is that the title is only available for members to buy for 1 year. Nothing to do with the title being available through others.
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This actually isn’t true. The only reason that I know anything about the window of exclusivity is that people were complaining to the company representative in the old forum about how some past records of the month were popping up in stores(not the VMP versions) and he mentioned that it’s usually a year but they made a couple of exceptions, which were 6 months. I’d quote it for you but those records burned up in a PR nightmare fire that you may recall. You are right though that they have started releasing variants in the r/hh sub this year, which is total garbage, but people keep buying them, so why should they stop selling them? People, please stop buying them so they are forced to release actual exclusives again.
 
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ByersVinyl said:
In other non-related essentials news....
Ive just bought Tears for fears - “Songs from the big chair.” Its going on headphones now (suspect i will slowly doze off to it)
Managed to fight urge to add INXS - Kick. But that day is coming - its an itch i cant scratch.
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Can’t go wrong with either! I actually scored a MOFI Listen Like Thieves awhile back. It’s glorious!
 
Personally, I wouldn't want just one VMP thread. That would mean I would have to wade through way more topics than I care to when really all I want to read through is the essentials thread. It's a matter of convenience.

Joe Mac said:
votes are counterproductive
and sew discord.
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RobbieBobby said:
VMP for better or worse are what brought this community together
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👏👏

I'm glad that there is this community. It's a true testament to the good will of people.
 
forkandspoon said:
Personally, I wouldn't want just one VMP thread. That would mean I would have to wade through way more topics than I care to when really all I want to read through is the essentials thread. It's a matter of convenience.



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👏👏

I'm glad that there is this community. It's a true testament to the good will of people.
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Congratulations you can quote a single sentence out of the context of the larger argument to make no point in particular, gold star to you 🙄🙄🙄
 
Discuss VMP on here. 3 threads. 5 threads. 152 threads. It doesn’t really matter. I wouldn’t use an official forum by them again anyway, as they might just take the headstaggers and close it again. But I don’t need to buy off them religiously. I hope they get their shit together as they had a good product. If they put some Dio or Bowie or Prince in the store I would be back probably. But i’m sure I could get the same item without signing up again
 
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