I’ve been to May’s! That place rules. I walked around Frederick last time I went with my family but didn’t go to any record shops. I’ll hit some up next time and already jotted the stores down for future ref. Thanks again!
It all goes back to Matt’s “if it’s not making us money, let’s get rid of it” mentality. He talks about it in every interview. They pride themselves on having only 20 employees. Instead of hiring an extra person or two to make everyone’s lives easier to work in logistics or CS, they would rather have less employees just to make the extra little bit in overhead. Somethings wrong if you’re doing $10 mil in gross sales every year but have to almost double the price of your product to “maintain quality”.
I was monthly and when they announced the price hike I took their discount offer for a 6 month sub and it says I'll be charged $113, which is actually a really good deal....are others getting this too or is this a glitch that I'm going to get burned by come 9/1?
I see my 6 month as that too. I hope my 3 month sticks at $61 cause that’d be a killer deal
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Sub to MATHRVYNL. Send me $500 and I will send you a bunch of curated shit that's sitting in milk crates in my basement.
i think the reason they plate at QRP is because they know the specific pressing and quality (the parts that will create the complete vinyl after Gz or MPO make the vinyl), BUT QRP is pretty trash when it comes to colored vinyl (people made jokes about the grateful dead boxset), they only do plain, single colors with no real MAJOR unique swirls or splits or splatters, and they know the pretty color helps sell it so to keep a decent quality without having just plain black or solid color they move the plates to europe to press that. especially since it worked well for aretha franklin
Mine says 6 month is $219 hah yikes.
I can’t deal with all the warps especially since I can only glue so many loony’s to the tone arm.
Yep Pauly framed that as a benefit. Except it’s not...members aren’t getting a cheaper price, non-members are just getting gouged even more. And for the extra $4 or whatever it’s not going to stop non-members from buying an “exclusive” if it’s desirable.
If you are only gonna duck in periodically, say once a quarter you actually benefit from not having a membership and slightly overpaying for exclusives. At these price points it comes down to how much you trust VMP curation. I have a lot of records from the company that I could have purchased elsewhere for less. I will pay for the exorbitant every once in a while but I have been priced out of the “just trust us” ROTM model they are currently relying on.
The warps are a feature.
Well when you put it like that...