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

RHANDMJ said:
I will take your money on that bet.

The VMP partnership was announced on the Craft website.

Exclusives, limited, I bought 4.
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Worth mentioning that there's almost always a time clause associated with these, so not 'true' exclusives.

VMP had the sole exclusivity rights to the Oneness Of Juju releases last year and the exact same pressings (just black vinyl) were released by Now Again this year.

Im not sure I can even think of an example of a store release that turned out to be a true VMP exclusive?
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Not much info, but also absent with the usual 'weasel' words that would imply further standard vinyl pressings. Sadly I have a feeling this will be an exclusive run for VMP (like the aborted P4K series). They might come out in the future but probably not in the next few months. At a 1000 copies each, that is a pretty big run for material like this. But hey I could be wrong. Either way I am not willing to pay the VMP tax on these, but @RHANDMJ I would be interested in buying your copy of Idris off you
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They don’t need to necessarily have weasel words tbh, it’s all in what they say is exclusive and how emphatic they are. Tbh with something this niche I’d not imagine it’d be repressed in weeks or months but niche VMP releases and AoTM have often reappeared as standards from the label/licensee 6 months to a year later.
 
Selaws said:
Worth mentioning that there's almost always a time clause associated with these, so not 'true' exclusives.

VMP had the sole exclusivity rights to the Oneness Of Juju releases last year and the exact same pressings (just black vinyl) were released by Now Again this year.

Im not sure I can even think of an example of a store release that turned out to be a true VMP exclusive?
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De La Soul, Willie Nelson, and Loretta Lynn exclusives Come to mind right off the bat but those a bit over a year since VMP released the exclusives and it seems likely they will get repressed at some point but not yet.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
They repressed an exclusive of The National’s Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers back in 2017 and it has not been repressed since as of yet.
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That was just a colourway though no? I don’t remember that they had it remastered? Because that album has never gone out of print, I can walk into my local and buy it on black vinyl as we speak!
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I am of the mindset that we are at a time that as long as their is a slight demand for the album exists it will end up getting repressed. Not so much a matter of if but when. It’s part of the reason I am hard pressed to overpay for something that is currently hard to find.
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I think Van Morrison is an exception for me. He’s a grumpy pig, has decided that he no longer likes lots of his iconic work and owns the masters himself to most of them!
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I am of the mindset that we are at a time that as long as their is a slight demand for the album exists it will end up getting repressed. Not so much a matter of if but when. It’s part of the reason I am hard pressed to overpay for something that is currently hard to find.
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This is what I keep trying to tell myself about Cut Copy's "In Ghost Colours" - I don't want to pay $200 for it.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
De La Soul, Willie Nelson, and Loretta Lynn exclusives Come to mind right off the bat but those a bit over a year since VMP released the exclusives and it seems likely they will get repressed at some point but not yet.
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Didn't De La get a surprisingly tiny black issue by Tommy Boy later that year?

Edit: I don't see it on Discogs but I could have sworn that happened. Unless it got pulled.

Edited it: must have been thinking of Buhloone Mindstate.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
They repressed an exclusive of The National’s Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers back in 2017 and it has not been repressed since as of yet.
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To be fair, I would also argue that VMP is a fairly different company in 2020 than it was in 2017. They have changed quite a bit, and I'm still not convinced it was better for anyone except their investors. But they are a business, so I guess it's not shocking either.
 
Whilst we’re on the subject of Jazz Dispensary, I thought I’d ask what is everyone’s favourite Jazz Dispensary release from the Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series? 🤔

There have only been 10 releases from the Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series so far, and my favourites out of those 10 albums are:

1). Joe Henderson - The Elements
2). Gary Bartz NTU Troop - Harlem Bush Music: Uhuru
3). Azar Lawrence - Bridge Into The New Age
4): Rusty Bryant - Fire Eater

Those four releases are the ones I really enjoyed when I checked them out! I’ve already ordered them too! 🐒😎

I like Charles Kynars’s Afro-Disiac but I don’t love it. I think if I put that album on the turntable though, especially as it’s a Kevin Gray, QRP pressing (like the rest of these Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series releases), then I’ll fall in love! 😇

The one release from the Top Shelf Series I didn’t enjoy much was the Funk, Inc. release. Although the music is fine, I just didn’t vibe or care for the music on that one unfortunately! 🤷‍♂️

I’m so happy to know these releases from the Top Shelf Series are all 180g, Kevin Gray mastered, QRP pressings too! 😍

So yeah, what’s everyone’s favourites from the Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series?
 
NewsFedora said:
Co-signing on Jorge Ben. $20 is a great price for it.

I’ll probably get Da Brat for $20 as a Christmas present for the missus. I jokingly said I’d get it for her a while back and uh... it turns out she actually wants it. Go figure.
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I may get the Brat too, it’s funny I remember the hits she had on the radio but never actually heard the album , I mean it was 1994 I was buried in awesome rap albums that year . I had no idea that she cursed so much when I got around to listening to it since all her songs were censored on the radio.
 
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