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

Ginormousthumbs said:
Yeah, from what I saw on Reddit the company or person doesn’t sound like someone I’d want to support. Boasting that they’re the biggest distributor in Washington(state).
It sounds like they could have some kind of arrangement with VMP to take their returned/defective items off their hands or even just have multiple accounts for resale.
I’ve been trying to stay away from VMP nonsense, but sometimes it finds me.
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I posted on reddit about the Vinceron stuff...It got hundreds of upvotes and comments and the mods ended up removing it because Vinceron went in and was insulting anybody who called him a flipper. They ended up deleting my post and banning Vinceron, which is somewhat fair, but VMP still refuses to acknowledge whatever backroom deals VMP has with Vinceron or why they let one person buy hundreds of pressings...
 
NathanRicaud said:
Dang! You must love VMP exclusives if you did a blind buy! As much as I love VMP, I always make sure I listen to the album/singles from an album before purchasing it from the store! I could never blind buy an album unless it's Frank Ocean, D'Angelo, Noname, or Lianne La Havas or JPEGMAFIA etc (but VMP rarely cover artists that I'd do a blind buy on)!

The most blind buy purchase for me is purchasing an album based off the strength of a single I really like! But I don't do that as much anymore with artists I'm unfamiliar with.
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Oh I'm well aware of the band and album...it wasn't a blind buy. I loved the album in high school. It was a nostalgiac/FOMO purchase which I have been largely good about avoiding but that one got me...
 
MikeH said:
Oh I'm well aware of the band and album...it wasn't a blind buy. I loved the album in high school. It was a nostalgiac/FOMO purchase which I have been largely good about avoiding but that one got me...
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Ahhhh gotcha! Nostalgia is definitely something powerful in that kind of sense! I mean, if VMP do Chris Brown or Ne-Yo's debut albums, I'd definitely grab them just for nostalgia reasons alone! 🙈
 
agutierrezb said:
Ok, so it's basically artists who want to make country "cool" or "alternative" instead of a grassroots folk expression, right? In the end they may sound the same, but they feel like they are approaching the music from a more "artsy" angle.
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No. It also includes blues and folk. And if you're an anti-racist, also hip hop.

Its not any more about trying to be cool any than just being a musician is.
 
agutierrezb said:
Ok, so it's basically artists who want to make country "cool" or "alternative" instead of a grassroots folk expression, right? In the end they may sound the same, but they feel like they are approaching the music from a more "artsy" angle.
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I would actually say actually yes to an extent, but it's not artists who do this, more of the audience. I've never seen so-called "Americana" artists try to distance themselves from their Country, Blues, folk roots and influences or sell themselves as more artsy. And some, like Childers, straight up reject the Americana label (justifiable, especially in his case where he is clearly country).

It's the audience who thinks of Country as stuff like FGL and Luke Bryan and instead of accepting that there are sub-genres, put Americana into it's own category so they can continue to turn their nose up at Country.
 
Ginormousthumbs said:
Did anyone order the Dashboard Confessional album as a blind buy?
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I didn't completely purchase as a blind buy. I loved Dashboard when I was in high school and college, but I haven't listened to them much since then and like alot of the emo/scene music from that time wondering if it will hold up....
 
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