Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

hayema7 said:
So I've been having more and more issues with records arriving in bad shape. My wife is seeing it as a VMP issue, but I don't buy enough elsewhere to know. Are we seeing this from a lot of other places as well?
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Everywhere. But I'll say that NRP and United might be even worse than GZ/PRP/etc. The other mid and top tier plants have issues too, but less than these.
 
Turbo said:
Everywhere. But I'll say that NRP and United might be even worse than GZ/PRP/etc. The other mid and top tier plants have issues too, but less than these.
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Yeah I don't buy anything from United and try to avoid NRP as best I can. But GZ are just so damn prevalent it's almost impossible. Optimal has been dodgy recently, Third Man vacillates from great to terrible without any rhyme or reason. Hell even Pallas and RTI have been pretty unreliable. I just try to wait for cogs reviews now before I buy.
 
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Mather said:
Yeah I don't buy anything from United and try to avoid NRP as best I can. But GZ is just so damn prevalent it's almost impossible. Optimal has been dodgy recently, Third Man vacillates from great to terrible without any rhyme or reason. Hell even Pallas and RTI have been pretty unreliable. I just try to wait for cogs reviews now before I buy.
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Yep, same observations here as well. A couple smaller operations that have been quite good overall for me: Smashed Plastic Record Pressing (Chicago), Gotta Groove Records (Cleveland), Furnace (Alexandria VA) and Dublin Vinyl (Dublin). I also have a few pressings from local plants - Société Des Loisirs (Montreal) and Le Vinylist (Quebec City) and both are ok so far. I wouldn't call these audiophile, but at least there's none of the massive pressing flaws I'm sporadically seeing elsewhere (scribble scratches from paper sleeves being the most mind boggling to me).

In the middle of all this, QRP has stayed pretty solid but they seem to exclusively press Analogue Productions now. Otherwise, in my view Record Industry stayed solid as well while the others waivered.
 
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Nothing that hasn't been sitting around for a while but the contest seems interesting....not sure what 10 sold out records you could win but maybe that means some past ROTM's are getting re-pressed?
 
4080 said:
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5 Years of Hip-Hop

Vinyl Me, Please is a record of the month club. The best damn record club, in fact. Our goal is to be the greatest music company ever, and to make your life even more awesome than it already is. We do this by not only sending you great music, but by also offering an amazing experience every month.
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Nothing that hasn't been sitting around for a while but the contest seems interesting....not sure what 10 sold out records you could win but maybe that means some past ROTM's are getting re-pressed?
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Kind of wish I held off on Tical as $27 isn't too bad a deal. But otherwise nothing special, I'm sure there will be better sales for some of these sooner or later.
 
For some reason I actually thought that this contest would include all members, I have no idea why? As always international money is welcome but no contests for you!!
 
Mather said:
Okay correct but I straight up don't buy anything from them so I don't count them. It's the same to me as some dude pressing them in his garage. I don't buy from him either. But yes, United might be worse... MIGHT.
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GZ has been known to produce some absolute gems (ex- The Strokes, ATCQ for VMP, the new Murder By Death outside VMP) so I could never rank them in the same pit as United.
 
Mather said:
I'm more frustrated by a plant that CAN do great work but doesn't bother, rather than a plant that just put outs non stop trash. Personally.
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I've heard the rumblings that they have a tier that you can pay extra to super ensure the pressing is top notch and some labels pay it and some don't. With the state of the pandemic-era pressing demand, I wouldn't be surprised and might not even blame them as some customers may just want a turn and burn order and that kind of QC takes manpower and slows down the presses.

I mean it may not even be much if a band like MBD sprung for it bc they self press with Kickstarter funds, and their album sounds damn near audiophile. If that's the case, the blame should be placed on the label for cheaping out
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
I've heard the rumblings that they have a tier that you can pay extra to super ensure the pressing is top notch and some labels pay it and some don't. With the state of the pandemic-era pressing demand, I wouldn't be surprised and might not even blame them as some customers may just want a turn and burn order and that kind of QC takes manpower and slows down the presses.

I mean it may not even be much if a band like MBD sprung for it bc they self press with Kickstarter funds, and their album sounds damn near audiophile. If that's the case, the blame should be placed on the label for cheaping out
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Yeah I've heard that, if they do charge extra to actually do it right I find that even more offensive.
 
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