juiceless
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@Lee Newman contains multitudes.
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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TenderLovingKiller®
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folsom_lives
pretty_lil_dirt_boi
Hey man. I’m like the least nerdy engineer. I just play in dirt and make it look like engineering.
TenderLovingKiller®
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LOL, I was just bustin’s yer chops. My Roommate in college and best friend is a mechanical engineer and would always refer to his engineering buds from school as “the enginerds” I always found the portmanteau to be quite clever.
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JonnyH
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folsom_lives
pretty_lil_dirt_boi
Oh yeah sorry I knew that. Not trying to be confrontational. I still just find it funny when people paint engineers with a broad brush as nerds and I’m just standing in some mud like “yur gonna need to dry this mud out of you want to build your house here”.
JonnyH
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Custodial engineers.
NewsFedora
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It’s an automated reply but one I hadn’t seen before. So I guess stuff is still getting held back if you also include a pre-order and I guess they have to manually free them up if you don’t want to wait for them to ship.
I still haven’t gotten anything to ship yet but hopefully I’ll start seeing movement in the next few days. I’m most worried about Pet Sounds as that sold out in the time I had been waiting for my copy to go out.
Bluecloud777
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I'm just checking out some VMP exclusives and I see that the Hanni El Khatib "Flight" is on Red Glow in the dark vinyl. What are your experiences with Glow in the dark vinyl? Do they sound worse, is it similar to picture vinyl?
Can confirm.
Started in electrical engineering but ran for the hills, the hills being theoretical math. Toking up with math people was always fun.
There was one semester where all we watched was Half Baked. That was the semester that we convinced the RA to let us throw a kegger in the dorm. Good times.
Bluecloud777
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Really hope the Los Amigos Invisibles exclusive hangs around for another two weeks as I’d really like to pick it up then! I’ve been splurging so much on vinyl I didn’t realise how much left I have in my bank account
Listened to the Los Amigos Invisibles “Arepa 3000” and it is such a fun listen! It’s very funky, old-school and nostalgic but still left field and quirky! I really dig it!
Did you end up getting this record, @NathanRicaud? I'm just listening to it online and it sounds pretty good to me.
Skeletonframes
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I have one Glow in the Dark record and it sounds pretty bad. It’s crackly throughout and the space between songs sounds like a fireplace. It’s the Black Pumas release from Newbury. I’m keeping because I like the gimmick and they put a cool little glow in the dark paint on the cover, too, but if you’re looking for sound quality, it might not be the best.
Ghost
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I have Rozi Plains “What A Boost” on glow in the dark vinyl and it sounds like shit unfortunately. So much surface noise
Tillman
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the only glow in the dark I have is the most recent Andrew Bird, which I haven't listened to in a long while, but I thought it sounded totally fine. maybe it's simply passable sounding when I was expecting it to sound much worse which made me think it sounds good.
MikeH
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I’d stay away from glow in the dark unless you’re just buying it as a collectors album...the few I have purchased in the past had lots of noise.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, I have one GITD (Air’s Moon Safari) and while it sounds ok, I still kept my standard black copy.
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Joe Mac
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those damn glow in the dark records, cheaters the lot of them, when will you learn....
Selaws
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Weird, I didn't get the email about Art Blakey being delayed, but I did get the email about Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes being delayed....
Ericj32
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This all day. VMP flat out lies.
Every single month now, VMP labels all of its new ROTMs in its store as “sold out,” regardless of how many copies are available and will show up a few weeks later for sale in the store and/or swaps. The only reason for saying something is “sold out” for these brand new releases is to create a false impression that the demand has swallowed up the supply. There is zero truth in the statement that those releases have “sold out.” The ONLY way anyone would have been able to secure one of those “sold out” new ROTMs would be to be a member for that track when they were announced during the swap window for the month. And then they are labelled as “sold out” for the rest of the month. Then, the next month, when those records show up in the store, the impression for a new customer would be “oh damn, they must have found a few extra copies of this ‘sold out’ record so I better jump on this now!”
They say the anthologies are “sold out” instead of saying that they are no longer available due to the self-imposed purchasing window.
They also artificially manipulate available stock so that things “sell out” and then show up later as “swap exclusives” that only members will have access to.
When they hold back copies for replacements, they don’t tell people that they’re holding back copies for replacements. They don’t say that they’ll release them once they’ve ensured that everyone who has purchased a record has received it (without any issues that require a replacement). They just say there are no copies left of the record - which, again, is not true.
There is most definitely a way of doing business that doesn’t require you to lie to your customers. But VMP has discovered that lying helps them manipulate people into buying things they might have waited on.