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

folsom_lives said:
I didn’t go so far as to say that in my email but when it should be purple but comes up white... I just said the difference in the mockup to what was delivered was “egregious”.
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Well, already sent an email. Basically saying it’s false advertising SOOO THANKS A LOT! 😂 lol

i said slight variations are okay, but this is just completely different. And just said it’s a light variation of the indie one but $20 more. Which makes no sense. I ended it with “please let me know who you plan to settle this” 💁🏽‍♂️ lolol
 
Memo said:
Well, already sent an email. Basically saying it’s false advertising SOOO THANKS A LOT! 😂 lol

i said slight variations are okay, but this is just completely different. And just said it’s a light variation of the indie one but $20 more. Which makes no sense. I ended it with “please let me know who you plan to settle this” 💁🏽‍♂️ lolol
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My reply to that would be “The person who I will use to settle this is Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson”
 
Memo said:
Well, already sent an email. Basically saying it’s false advertising SOOO THANKS A LOT! 😂 lol

i said slight variations are okay, but this is just completely different. And just said it’s a light variation of the indie one but $20 more. Which makes no sense. I ended it with “please let me know who you plan to settle this” 💁🏽‍♂️ lolol
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I broke that shit down to them when they were trying to change policy to back out of damage replacements. You can't base your products and exorbitant markups on color variants and packaging and then treat those aspects as insignificant when you deliver different variants and fucked up packaging.
 
The mock up was weird in the first place, the other two variants were both varieties of white/purple (Cherry Tree with half/half, retail as a marbled), so I can't say I'm that surprised. Still annoying for people who preferred the original look.
 
RonDMC said:
Test pressings are typically plain black. All the TPs they gave out for the Mobb Deep debacle that I saw were black. Also, not sure if they get TPs from store exclusives or just ROTMs.
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I guess Most of their exclusives they buy from the record companies and get them sent . So they probably never see test presses. I guess there are test presses for the high violet 3lp run, those get approved by the label and then all the coloured variants go out from the pressing plants directly to the different seller's. For Vmp the additional problem is that they get those record directly send to the warehouse which is not even in the same state as vmp hq. So they might not see the final product before it is sent out.
 
radiodead said:
I think we need to let VMP know that their OBI’s are trash. They have to be the most uninspired obi I’ve ever seen. They need to put way more into that shit. Especially for how many records they sell each month. International Anthem has incredible obi’s. I’d prefer the obi wrap that goes around the record and not the current bookend wrap that they use. Garbage.
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IA's Obis are sooooooo classy and beautiful.
 
I'm quite curious, what would be your ideal 'Essentials' record if you could choose one? What would be included, such as inserts, extra material, the color of the record (or variant), etc. On the other hand, what would be your "nightmare" 'Essentials' record, one that you would avoid at all costs and would wonder for the rest of time that VMP even considered this as the pick.
 
sylvian said:
I'm quite curious, what would be your ideal 'Essentials' record if you could choose one? What would be included, such as inserts, extra material, the color of the record (or variant), etc. On the other hand, what would be your "nightmare" 'Essentials' record, one that you would avoid at all costs and would wonder for the rest of time that VMP even considered this as the pick.
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My Ideal Essentials ROTM would be A Tribe Called Quest’s “Midnight Marauders”! The current pressing sounds compressed, so this VMP Essentials pressing would be 2LP, on 180g vinyl. One disc would be yellow and the other would be green, to compliment the album cover!

My “Nightmare” Essentials ROTM would be any DJ Khaled album, especially his latest one - Father of Ahsad - as I think all his albums are terrible. I would be shocked and heartbroken at the same time if VMP made DJ Khaled an Essentials ROTM!
 
sylvian said:
I'm quite curious, what would be your ideal 'Essentials' record if you could choose one? What would be included, such as inserts, extra material, the color of the record (or variant), etc. On the other hand, what would be your "nightmare" 'Essentials' record, one that you would avoid at all costs and would wonder for the rest of time that VMP even considered this as the pick.
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This is actually a great question, I've never really thought of what I would love to see.

Regardless of what it actually is, I would love a decent set of liner notes and a background to the album (with session photos). No disrespect to the guys at VMP, but I would much prefer these to be written by someone that actually knows and has a connection to the album. I often find that with the VMP liner notes the information provided is something which we could all learn within half an hour of googling the album. Resonance Records, Gearbox Records and Real To Reel go into great depths with their releases and include interviews with the people that 'discovered' the recordings, interviews with the musicians and/or family members etc. It really builds a great platform and adds to the music when you finally hear it. Jazz especially tends to have a politically or emotionally charged 'story' specific to a certain album, and knowing about that before hearing it just makes it so much more understandable and powerful.

AAA pressings are by far my favourite, although I know these cant always be achieved.

I could honestly do without the whole cocktail recipe, J-card, stickers and art print, but what would be great is a high quality 12x12 session photo of the musician (like those that come with Sams Records, Blue Note Review, etc).

I often feel like a lot of special or club releases throws a lot of cheap and unconsidered add-on's into a release to make it look like you are getting a lot for your money. In reality just a few basic pieces (gatefold, linernotes book, photo print) done really well provide much more.
 
I should've mentioned my current ideal 'Essential' record would be Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges's Clube da Esquina, which has been awfully difficult to get physically unless you're native to Brazil or have the money to spare for the record, whether it's an original (which has sold on Discogs for as high as 225 USD) or a more recent reissue, which still fetches up to 130 USD. In this prospective offering, we'd be getting the album as is, on black vinyl, with a tip-on jacket. As tempting as trying to for a green/yellow splatter would be, going simple with the color/variant would be nice. Within the package, along with the record, would be the lyrics booklet (perhaps, with translated lyrics as well to go along with the original lyrics), and a small booklet regarding the making of the album and interviews with both artists involved (which would be still possible as both Nascimento and Borges are still alive and well).

On the other hand, VMP continues to push out multiple records I have no love for or interest in and that alone is far worse than them deciding upon a record that I'd want to avoid for years to come. Their selection leaves a lot to be desired, and for every Spiritualized, Queen or Fiona Apple, there's a Stevie Nicks, John Mayer or White Stripes to come along to show me I am certainly not a part of their target audience for the most part.
 
sylvian said:
I should've mentioned my current ideal 'Essential' record would be Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges's Clube da Esquina, which has been awfully difficult to get physically unless you're native to Brazil or have the money to spare for the record, whether it's an original (which has sold on Discogs for as high as 225 USD) or a more recent reissue, which still fetches up to 130 USD. In this prospective offering, we'd be getting the album as is, on black vinyl, with a tip-on jacket. As tempting as trying to for a green/yellow splatter would be, going simple with the color/variant would be nice. Within the package, along with the record, would be the lyrics booklet (perhaps, with translated lyrics as well to go along with the original lyrics), and a small booklet regarding the making of the album and interviews with both artists involved (which would be still possible as both Nascimento and Borges are still alive and well).

On the other hand, VMP continues to push out multiple records I have no love for or interest in and that alone is far worse than them deciding upon a record that I'd want to avoid for years to come. Their selection leaves a lot to be desired, and for every Spiritualized, Queen or Fiona Apple, there's a Stevie Nicks, John Mayer or White Stripes to come along to show me I am certainly not a part of their target audience for the most part.
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Oooooh I will stream this album tomorrow. My brother's girlfriend is Brazilian and the last time they were there they picked me up a load of Brazilian records (Tim Maia, Tom Jobim) and a Milton Nascimento compilation. Really fun music!
 
Selaws said:
Oooooh I will stream this album tomorrow. My brother's girlfriend is Brazilian and the last time they were there they picked me up a load of Brazilian records (Tim Maia, Tom Jobim) and a Milton Nascimento compilation. Really fun music!
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Milton is fantastic. Really, any of this records from 1970-1977 would be a perfect fit for Essentials or definitely Classics. The complete album should be on Youtube. IIRC, the Spotify version is missing a side of the album, but I'm not sure if they fixed that or not. Refer to the discogs page for it I suppose before listening.
 
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