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

NathanRicaud said:
STOP IT! It breaks my heart how much you dislike VMP Joe! 🥀💔😭

Like you cannot wait until VMP doesn’t exist anymore! Like I know you are low-key living for that to happen! And it breaks my heart because VMP is my everything! 😭😩😅🤣
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I honestly don’t care one way or the other @NathanRicaud it’s just not that important to me. I do pity the reasoning of anyone who thinks that their new prices are worth it and stays subscribed at those rates.

I have made no secret from the start of this forum that I’ve thought that the size of their presence on this forum and the hype and sales that it drives is a divisive poison and that it is a slap in the face for anyone who had invested a bit of themselves in the community element back in the old place.

A company is your everything? You invest that much in a sales company? People and art and artists in their own terms I get? But a company? Sorry I just don’t get that.
 
Complete bullshit trying to sell it with "we haven't raised prices in 3 years." So? Neither have most other reissue companies. And if they did, it was 15% or less and only once in that time. Making it sound like anyone would expect a significant yearly increase in price for a retail product shows just how out of touch with the real world they are.
 
wynn72 said:
I'm not really devastated at all. If you couldn't tell by my response, that was me in that tweet.

I saw this coming (though obviously not as high as 50%). At the end of the day, Vinyl is a hobby and a non-necessary guilty purchase that I like to spend my disposable income on. Music is pretty much now accessible to all cheaply via streaming services, no one has to pay for Vinyl and people should definitely vote with their wallets if they are fed up. For me personally my only real vices are dining out and Vinyl, and sometimes I spend far too much on both. The only thing that strongly bothers me with them is when something I spend money on, that is supposed to just bring me enjoyment in life, adds unnecessary stress (i.e. Their awful fulfillment practices and ridiculously long to non-existent CS responses).

I havent decided fully yet how this is going to effect me going forward with VMP, but I do know if a Vinyl Me Pardner track comes out I'm signing up for sure. What I'm thinking as of now is I will also almost definitely stay on board for Classics monthly.
Essentials will likely stay but be swapped more, as I can't be as free and loose about exclusive buying and RHH is the most likely to go for me, as it's not a genre I listen to as much as I'd like on wax anyway and I can just swap between that and Essentials when needed.
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Similar here I quit smoking and started buying records because I wanted something to show for the money I spent. It worked and I have a pretty respectable collection now and feel a bit healthier, but shit like this makes me want to start smoking again
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
I was just checking their Twitter feed, and am appalled at their “we haven’t increased subscription prices since 2016” excuse, when they charge up to $35 for single LP release. They used to charge, what, $18, maybe $25, for single LPs? Come on....
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When I first signed up in 2016, my month to month was I think somewhere around $25-27, I stayed with that for a while, took a break for a couple of months, and when I came back the price was $29. So to say they haven't raised prices is a lie.
 
Since they charged my 3-month main track subscription this month, I guess I will stay on for two more months. As for the add-ons, it is going to be wait-and-see, but I doubt either of the two tracks will have titles attractive enough for me to pay extra 10 dollars.
 
dhodo said:
I think MoFi and AP raised their prices what like $5 in the last 10 years? MM had two $5 increases in 10 years before they went crazy price gouging. Just wild that they are trying to sell this as anything other than unprecedented in the market.
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Also average inflation in the US over the last 3 years has been around 2%. Even compounded that doesn’t come close to 10%, never mind 50%. I hate the anthologies but I don’t think that it’s just them that’s done for it, them as a monthly service forgetting how to send all the months records in one shipment rather than individually must have added an astronomical amount to their costs. I don’t know how often I’ve said this in the old place, and here, but logistics are really fucking important and they just don’t do them.
 
Joe Mac said:
Also average inflation in the US over the last 3 years has been around 2%. Even compounded that doesn’t come close to 10%, never mind 50%. I hate the anthologies but I don’t think that it’s just them that’s done for it, them as a monthly service forgetting how to send all the months records in one shipment rather than one by one must have added an astronomical amount to their costs. I don’t know how often I’ve said this in the old place, and here, but logistics are really fucking important and they just don’t do them.
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When they started sending out records one by one in November I predicted that they would be out of business in 6 months if that kept up. It seems this is their grasp at preventing that.
 
SpinningSince85 said:
When they started sending out records one by one in November I predicted that they would be out of business in 6 months if that kept up. It seems this is their grasp at preventing that.
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You weren’t the only one, I jumped ship for the second time after the January of terrible choices, rebound flings are the worst, and was honestly shocked when I heard that they were still doing that!
 
SpinningSince85 said:
When they started sending out records one by one in November I predicted that they would be out of business in 6 months if that kept up. It seems this is their grasp at preventing that.
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That shit made no sense at all. I got 5 packages last month with one LP each lol. Taking into account the cost of shipping materials and media mail, thats $20+ to ship my stuff when it coulda gone in one box for like $6.
 
Joe Mac said:
I honestly don’t care one way or the other @NathanRicaud it’s just not that important to me. I do pity the reasoning of anyone who thinks that their new prices are worth it and stays subscribed at those rates.

I have made no secret from the start of this forum that I’ve thought that the size of their presence on this forum and the hype and sales that it drives is a divisive poison and that it is a slap in the face for anyone who had invested a bit of themselves in the community element back in the old place.

A company is your everything? You invest that much in a sales company? People and art and artists in their own terms I get? But a company? Sorry I just don’t get that.
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VMP hurt @Joe Mac. They hurt him bad.

Then he went off and found other shops and ways of getting vinyl. He no longer gives a fuck.

Be like @Joe Mac
 
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