Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

LG&M said:
Is "unsafe" or "fear" the standard here? Then no. But I sure as hell am not going to voice a positive opinion about VMP on this message board, those perspectives are still clearly not welcome in this community. I took a few weeks off hoping that some of the raw nerves would have started to heal but that is clearly not the case.
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Lots of people make positive comments and lots make negative comments. Everyone has their own feelings about it.

What’s odd to me is that people say it crossed lines (it did) and that the mods did nothing (not true).

Why it stayed escalated is odd to me.
 
LG&M said:
I'm not talking about the negative comments about VMP, I'm talking about the characterization about people who are customers of VMP. I'm not personally offended by them but I'm honestly curious for the perspective here.
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Report them. I’ve not seen any posts (other than a few directed at @Enoch ). The mods aren’t omnipresent or omnipotent.
 
Lee Newman said:
She’s pretty much always been in charge of Rising?
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I thought at the beginning it was her and someone else? I've only ever liked a few Rising, which were right after I joined VMP, so even if it was her and someone else I guess my point partially stands either way. (I think Gang of Youths and Middle Kids are my only two. The Moses Sumney EP was before my time.)
 
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Indymisanthrope said:
TBH, and this is not a personal criticism of her, I think that aside from the obvious inciting incident (Sev's departure), handing off the store threads to her was the very beginning of the forum's terminal phase. I make no value judgment on this at all, but my strong sense was that A-B posted there out of a sense of obligation only, and did not enjoy, or have any interest in it whatsoever. Again, NOT a criticism of her as an individual; I just always thought that was a bit of a turning point.
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I think she did fine, then there was the hubbub over the Manson album and when she came back, her heart was not in it and I think besides getting rid of Sev, that was really a defining moment in VMP and their downward trajectory.
 
If I could ask VMP anything in a meeting, I would ask who was winning the bet on how long it would take this new forum to implode from turning on each other. Then I would be curious how much if any of a sales dip happened because of the forum axing decision. I would also ask when is De La Stakes Is High getting the VMP treatment. Also I would ask if any dank solutions could be snuck into my next box (or bubble mailer).

I do love this forum and support the VMP lovers and haters. I happen to be both.

Totally unrelated, but I witnessed an equally entertaining inter web argument yesterday that bled into today on a Facebook hoa page. There must be something in this hot June air...
 
Lee Newman said:
He did but those really aren’t early, I mean the program was named like three releases in by me in a thread she made about the new release program. Storf picked the first album, eventually it was just her though and Rising, IMO, was the best thing VMP behind classics.
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I didn't really tune in to Rising until Moses Sumney so they were early to me ;)
 
Cross posting from the Classics thread:

NewsFedora said:
I have an updated Classics Inventory list from Storf!



So the current order from least to most in stock is approximately the following:

Alice Coltrane < William Bell < Koko < Archie Shepp < Little Milton < Lightmen + 1 < Lafayette < Darrell Banks << Sister Rosetta ~ Eddie Floyd << Sarah Webster Fabio < Donald Byrd < James Booker

Speculation: SWF, Byrd and Booker are now a lot closer to Eddie Floyd and Rosetta Tharpe due to VMP giving Bespoke Post a bunch of them. But I suspect there's still a bunch left.
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Normally I’d assume Chance and his team requested timed exclusivity for their webstore as part of a deal like this and that the other company involved wasn’t allowed to communicate anything about it yet. But if there was no timed exclusivity I sadly still don’t expect VMP to communicate it effectively.
 
Melancholy_Melody said:
FWIW, a similar thing happened to me. I just received my June box TODAY because my payment info was mysteriously deleted from my account (and no, not an expired cc or anything) and I got “kicked out” as well. I figured this out on my own as VMP were slow to get back to me. You may want to check your account.
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So Pauly got back to me and ended up changing bits around to allow me to get the ones I wanted. Next month I will need to add the R&HH back to my account if I still want it (assuming it isn’t ‘sold out’ instantly again) He said he wasn’t sure what happened to cause the change to my membership BUT that it had happened to others. It’s a annoying as if I hadn’t of checked I wouldn’t have got what I expected this month. At least I managed to get it sorted for now.
 
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