Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Skacel said:
You just have to laugh at this point.

I got my replacement Wu-Tang in the other day and it's noisy, possibly worse than first copy. I now have the option to get a third copy or store credit. Tempted to roll the dice on another copy because I am an eternal optimist 🤥
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Yeah I've got a 3rd coming. It gave me hope that the 2nd didn't have the noise, but just double labeled, so we shall see......
 
Plumcrazyfx said:
My Grizzly Bear has noise in the intro on Side B and a definite ticking and other noise all over Side C. Annoying you can hear it every time there is a quiet part. I'm unlucky started sub 5 months ago and batting about .500.
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I listened to Prine today, also GZ pressed and it's like this recent string of terrible pressings made me forgot there was a time when VMP essentials/rhh pressed at GZ were usually reliably decent. Only issue I've had with one until a few months ago was terrible surface noise throughout Mama's Gun.
 
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I have to say, I know people say they have good copies of PE and WU... But I don't really know if they do, or if they just have systems or needles that aren't picking up the noise. I've gone through 3 of each and there is almost no difference in noise between them. They're all bad. The odds that there isn't a single good one out of six? I dunno...
 
bdrummond said:
GZ special (right channel noise) at the start of side A of Grizzly Bear.

Honestly not even sure what they're doing anymore. They know it's an issue but continue to pump out ROTMs. Like delay for a bit and test, you don't have to fire out flawed albums Oct 2.
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There's still a sizable contingent that claims they don't have issues, and that those who do are lying or something. Then theres the whole crowd who doesn't really care and just wants their favorite record on colored vinyl. Sadly I really only see these criticisms here and on select reddit threads, but even those threads always havea big upvoted comment calling the person with the complaint "a whiner". Whenever I check comments on FB or Instagram its all excitement and praise. Makes me wonder how big of an issue this string of records really is, or if they saw they just lost a few members but the majority will take any defective record and not care. It's not like they've released any statement or anything.
 
Mather said:
I have to say, I know people say they have good copies of PE and WU... But I don't really know if they do, or if they just have systems or needles that aren't picking up the noise. I've gone through 3 of each and there is almost no difference in noise between them. They're all bad. The odds that there isn't a single good one out of six? I dunno...
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What's the issue with PE? I played mine a while back and thought it was ok, but was not necessarily concentrating on it while it was playing.
 
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