Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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NathanRicaud
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NathanRicaud
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I know I never got back to you Ghost, but I really admire this post and I read it again today and felt really good reading it! It’s so true what you’ve said! It made me realise that I really need to move out of my parents house within the next year, and to be more independent. I’m so spoilt, like my Mum even irons my clothes and picks up my clothes in my bedroom and washes them, does the dishes, cooks etc and my Dad is so good like that too. On Monday, my wipers weren’t really working and he went to a auto repair place and replaced them for me, and didn’t ask for money or anything. He was just happy to do it and he’ll just make sure my car is good. And whenever my parents go to the supermarket together, they always ask me “what do you want us to get?”!
So. I am very spoilt money wise and time wise and just with everything. So I spend my money like a spoilt brat. That will change! I’m going to cook dinner for my family Friday night, and will get takeaway food for them next week!
From now on, I’m going to spend my money much more wisely. I’m still going to do five PT sessions a week because that’s so good for me health wise (even though I kinda hate it beforehand, like the thought of going to my PT session, but I always feel amazing after). But.....I’m going to dramatically cut my spending on vinyl! I listened to a Speakers Corner vinyl pressing today after listening to standard kinda pressings and was like “no more pre-ordering new releases, I prefer high quality pressings so much more”. I am going to delete Reddit too and I think I will actually save up my money this time instead of just being like “I can spend this money like it’s nothing because it’s my retirement fund”. I’ve used all of it up anyway, so from now on, I’m cutting big time on spending, especially as PT sessions cost me AUD$160 per week!
After what you’ve said makes me realise that it is really hard to save (if you were to have all those things you need to pay for). I earn the minimum wage in warehousing/factory work at the moment which is still decent (in my eyes). However, that means that I’d actually have little spending money if I moved out, and had to pay for everything myself!
I’m going to grow up even though I don’t want to, because I need to stop being so comfortable living at home and buying whatever I want. My parents were so supportive because I travelled constantly when I was young, but I wonder what they’re thinking now!
Skacel
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YES! One of my favourites.
Skalap
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I know I never got back to you Ghost, but I really admire this post and I read it again today and felt really good reading it! It’s so true what you’ve said! It made me realise that I really need to move out of my parents house within the next year, and to be more independent. I’m so spoilt, like my Mum even irons my clothes and picks up my clothes in my bedroom and washes them, does the dishes, cooks etc and my Dad is so good like that too. On Monday, my wipers weren’t really working and he went to a auto repair place and replaced them for me, and didn’t ask for money or anything. He was just happy to do it and he’ll just make sure my car is good. And whenever my parents go to the supermarket together, they always ask me “what do you want us to get?”!
So. I am very spoilt money wise and time wise and just with everything. So I spend my money like a spoilt brat. That will change! I’m going to cook dinner for my family Friday night, and will get takeaway food for them next week!
From now on, I’m going to spend my money much more wisely. I’m still going to do five PT sessions a week because that’s so good for me health wise (even though I kinda hate it beforehand, like the thought of going to my PT session, but I always feel amazing after). But.....I’m going to dramatically cut my spending on vinyl! I listened to a Speakers Corner vinyl pressing today after listening to standard kinda pressings and was like “no more pre-ordering new releases, I prefer high quality pressings so much more”. I am going to delete Reddit too and I think I will actually save up my money this time instead of just being like “I can spend this money like it’s nothing because it’s my retirement fund”. I’ve used all of it up anyway, so from now on, I’m cutting big time on spending, especially as PT sessions cost me AUD$160 per week! ✂
After what you’ve said makes me realise that it is really hard to save (if you were to have all those things you need to pay for). I earn the minimum wage in warehousing/factory work at the moment which is still decent (in my eyes). However, that means that I’d actually have little spending money if I moved out, and had to pay for everything myself!
I’m going to grow up even though I don’t want to, because I need to stop being so comfortable living at home and buying whatever I want. My parents were so supportive because I travelled constantly when I was young, but I wonder what they’re thinking now!
Good one Nathan but also Nathan when VMP will drop a new $800 Anthology box or a $45
(see how I connected the last 10 pages of this thread?)
NathanRicaud
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Hahaha I haven’t purchased many VMP store exclusives at the moment though, just saying
And I didn’t buy the Grateful Dead Anthology Boxset too!
But......if the Herbie Hancock Anthology Boxset is USD$500, I’ll buy it without hesitation!
Skalap
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Hahaha I haven’t purchased many VMP store exclusives at the moment though, just saying
And I didn’t buy the Grateful Dead Anthology Boxset too!
But......if the Herbie Hancock Anthology Boxset is USD$500, I’ll buy it without hesitation!
Or for more or less the same price and if you feel that you really need an Herbie Hancock Anthology :
- Herbie Hancock – Takin' Off (Blue Note 80th Anniversary serie for ± $20)
- Herbie Hancock – My Point Of View (Blue Note Tone Poet for ± $35)
- Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles (MM for ± $150 if you are patient)
- Herbie Hancock – Inventions And Dimensions (Blue Note 80th Anniversary serie for ± $20)
- Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (Analogue Productions for ± $100 if you are patient or MM for ± $150)
- Herbie Hancock – The Prisoner (Blue Note Tone Poet for ± $35)
- Herbie Hancock – Crossings (Speakers Corner for ± $30)
- Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters (Analogue Productions for ± $70)
All of these are AAA records, quite cheap and some of the best Herbie Hancock albums. Now it's up to you if you prefer to buy a VMP box with less known records pressed who knows where.
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Joe Mac
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And skalap will throw in a book of listening notes riddled with typos and copy/paste errors for free..
Skalap
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Definitely "not bda at all", "a hell of a record", "first time on two vinyls", "mastered by a nice guy from almost analogic tape and pressed in
NathanRicaud
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This is excellent Skalap!
I’ve got all of these pressings (just not the Maiden Voyage and Empryean Isles ones). I’ve also got the Speakers Corner Man-Child pressing! The BlueNote75 pressing of Empryean Isles and Maiden Voyage I had were both absolute garbage - like they legit went in the bin!
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I’m hoping for the Herbie Hancock Anthology Boxset, that we get Thrust, Empryean Isles, Maiden Voyage, Crossings, Secrets, Sextant, Future Shock!
I love Herbie Hancock so much!
Joe Mac
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like they legit went in the bin!
Such wastefulness, disgusting
NathanRicaud
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They were badly warped and scratched unfortunately! Had to bin it!
Rahawk2
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I still think of that episode when I’l our of beer and in the back of my mind there’s always some Vanilla extract in the cabinet
Joe Mac
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They were badly warped and scratched unfortunately! Had to bin it!
Hmmmmm. Given your past form for binning stuff that could have been donated etc I’m not convinced.
NathanRicaud
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All my BlueNote75 pressings were terribly warped, and most of them were scratched. I didn’t want to even store them away for someone else to have because they weren’t playable. And that’s coming from someone who plays a lot of warped records on my turntable!
Yes, it could of got flattened, but they were scratched and the sound quality wasn’t good. Amazon wanted me to pay for the items to get shipped back for the U.S. for me to get a refund, and it wasn’t worth it for me, so I put them all in the bin. Was a bit sad at the money I wasted but it was a lesson learnt nonetheless!
Selaws
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You know what really annoys me, those paper sleeves Blue Note use. Even with the BN80's (which sound great) they always seem to have a lot of surface marks because of those crappy sleeves. Surely its worth paying a few pence more for a proper lined sleeve.
Skalap
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Absolutely! I can draw a birthday cake or a lion or a truck or whatever the hell @NathanRicaud wants. Well, maybe not whatever he wants because we all know him but for $500 I can even draw you, I don't know, a house? What you say Nathan? In addition, since I learnt a few words of Japanese I can write something in Japanese. Actually, I may copy/paste some OG mangas texts I have at home because who will notice or understand what I'll wrote? Yeah I'll do that! So @NathanRicaud, do we have a deal or what? $500 shipped for the artwork and the listening notes in Japanese.
NathanRicaud
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Mmmmmm I know! I think both the Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ Meet You At The Corner Of The World pt 1 & pt 2 both had better quality inner sleeves! I remember being pleasantly surprised by that! But yeah...I think the same as well! Would be way better if they didn’t use those paper sleeves and invested into quality inners, which wouldn’t even cost that much more!
BlueNote80 do sound great though! Quality control isn’t the best on it though. Half of them for me were warped, with around 4-5 of them being severely warped. Tone Poet Blue Note has been magnificent though. Out of the 14-15 I have, only 1 was severely warped!
