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

djdavedk said:
have you seen prices on Discogs of original pressings? Even reissues are... steep.
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but there is no reaason reissues of out of print stuff should be priced high because of high discogs prices. These pj harvey reissues are around 20$ with discogs prices in the hundreds. I love sparklehorse but a boxset for 60$ an album is highway robbery and i'm not going to support that. But maybe the new vmp strategy against flippers is charging flipper prices from the start
 
djdavedk said:
have you seen prices on Discogs of original pressings? Even reissues are... steep.
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McGlam said:
I think I've talked myself out of Sparklehorse (for now). I can't imagine they will stay VMP exclusive for long. I could see them all be released individually before this box set is in anyone's hands. I'm not sure I NEED all four albums, so I will just wait.

Until I'm drunk.
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Hoping fora similar situation than the woodstock boxset, where rhino sold the individual volumes for about half the vmp price
 
MikeH said:
I will say, I have had some good sounding stuff pressed from GZ. But agreed. It makes NO sense to me to do it this way hah. QRP must be totally swamped. I think RTI was (maybe still is?) shut down for a bit. Just a really bizarre choice, especially selling GZ at $50/album.
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Oh I completely agree I've had some great stuff pressed at GZ, but I've also had some great stuff pressed at Rainbo... But the consistency is just not there for me to fork out big bucks for stuff they press unless I can read a review first.
 
also i understand the thought of the 50 bucks per album thing.... but per LP price is much cheaper at about 35 an LP for the non member price, and about 27 bucks an LP for members (still overpriced for black vinyl at Gz but i can take it)
 
duke86fan said:
also i understand the thought of the 50 bucks per album thing.... but per LP price is much cheaper at about 35 an LP for the non member price, and about 27 bucks an LP for members (still overpriced for black vinyl at Gz but i can take it)
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3 of the 7 LPS though are just etchings on one side. It's still overpriced for something pressed at GZ. Which is a shame...if a 20% coupon shows up somehow, I might end up buying it because I love Sparklehorse but as of right now, it's a hard sell for me.
 
MikeH said:
I mean...a ton of labels are raising prices due to secondary market pricing. Look at the whole Milo release issue that happened a month or so ago. It's crazy, but VMP wouldn't be the first one to do this.
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Though, I don't think these places realize that thousands of customers don't want and are not willing to pay flipper prices. It's not like thousands of copies are being sold of these secondary market expensive records. Most are 1 or 2 per month on Discogs. And even Vinceron is only selling in the tens and on a handful of records allegedly in the hundreds.

They've become enamored with the median price when that reflects 10-20 sales? Or getting 100 people to pay $35 for a OOP $23 record. The Anthology series and the other expensive releases that just hang around shows that this isn't working for them. Its not a sustainable market for thousands and thousands of customers.
 
dhodo said:
Does QRP have many color options?
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Even though I actually did buy the box I laughed about this when I saw the colors on the Dead box that QRP's pressing. It's all basic primary colors. I imagined VMP being like:

VMP - "Yo fam, we totally can't wait to get this hype box set pressed, what sick colour combos do ya have for us?"
QRP- "Green."
VMP- "Wazzat?"
QRP- "Or red."
VMP- "Like tie dyed or...."
QRP- "Like green."
VMP- "Cool.... cool cool cool... like a split or."
QRP- "No."
VMP- "K."
 
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KenKaniff said:
Giving another mention here, as it had a VMP variant.

Not pushing FOMO, but pushing good music/people and a label doing awesome stuff for their culture.

Steve & Teresa: Catching a Wave
VMP - Sold Out
Clear - Now Sold Out
Black is left - Catching A Wave (AGS-038), by Steve & Teresa
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FWIW, there is a translucent blue sound waves exclusive available via that same Bandcamp page

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wmeugene said:
Though, I don't think these places realize that thousands of customers don't want and are not willing to pay flipper prices. It's not like thousands of copies are being sold of these secondary market expensive records. Most are 1 or 2 per month on Discogs. And even Vinceron is only selling in the tens and on a handful of records allegedly in the hundreds.

They've become enamored with the median price when that reflects 10-20 sales? Or getting 100 people to pay $35 for a OOP $23 record. The Anthology series and the other expensive releases that just hang around shows that this isn't working for them
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They all just want a piece of the pie but you're right. Most people do not really understand it the second hand market. I've been to record stores where they are pricing things around listing prices on discogs instead of even median values. They think "well--it's listed at $150 so you can't buy it for cheaper than that!" Yet nobody has even purchased that record at anywhere near that price. Listed prices on albums have gone CRAZY the past few months it seems too.

Look at Rappcats and how they sold some leftover copies of the Zamrock box, which I believe was list price of $225 on VMP:

The Story of Zamrock has been long sold out via Vinyl Me, Please. These are the last remaining copies – which we are happy to offer for half of the lowest listing on Discogs.

There was one listing on discogs at that point, which was $800. Rappcats flipped their own product for $400. That's INSANE to me. These companies are manufacturing things with false scarcity, then using that to justify raising prices because the "resale value" is high. They are setting the market rate themselves and then trying to use that to justify represses to charge more money. Just because one person bought Blonde for $1,500 on discogs doesn't mean Frank Ocean should charge $1,000 for his next LP.
 
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