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

Nico's friend Danny Fields, the American journalist who helped her sign to Elektra Records, described her as "Nazi-esque", saying: "Every once in a while there'd be something about Jews and I'd be, 'But Nico, I'm Jewish,' and she was like 'Yes, yes, I don't mean you.' She had a definite Nordic Aryan streak, [the belief] that she was physically, spiritually and creatively superior."[35] According to Fields, in the early 1970s, Nico attacked a mixed-race woman at the Chelsea Hotel with a smashed wine glass, saying "I hate black people".[35] However, Fields also stated in a 2002 interview with David Dalton, "She was so far from being a Nazi—except maybe all Germans are Nazis."[36]

In 2019, Nigel Bagley, who was Nico's co-manager and promoter in Manchester, said he never saw Nico express racist views: "She was in a multicultural city and was good friends with Yankee Bill, our American-Jamaican doorman." Her drummer Graham Dowdall said: "She played an Indian instrument, worked with north Africans, and brought that to her music. She was certainly capable of very casual racism about Alan [Wise], who was Jewish, but that was a way of having a go at Al."[37]
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Andy said:
Haven't got time to read it all now, but 75% growth since last year, that's crazy
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I do wonder if they're counting each person who isn't a monthly subscriber but who buys an exclusive available to the public, but no matter what it's still a ridiculous jump from just a few years ago

It unfortunately also proves that they can get away with ever-increasing prices
 
serotonein said:
I do wonder if they're counting each person who isn't a monthly subscriber but who buys an exclusive available to the public, but no matter what it's still a ridiculous jump from just a few years ago

It unfortunately also proves that they can get away with ever-increasing prices
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Do non-members actually buy exclusives at their exorbitant non-member prices?
 
Jeff Lerner said:
Do non-members actually buy exclusives at their exorbitant non-member prices?
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You wouldn't think so, and we don't have any proof either way. It's the nature of the beast, though, especially if VMP offers a reissue that hasn't been announced anywhere else yet. It seems like a lot more of their exclusives are still sitting around the shop unsold, though that's also near-impossible to be sure of thanks to one of the worst online store UI's I've ever encountered, but there are plenty of exclusives (esp hip hop/rap) that are selling out almost immediately, and that's not just sales from subscribers.

And for those unsold exclusives, now we see why it's taking so long for them to get to swaps or not seeing a markdown. If you have 80k people buying something from you every month, you just figure you'll sell it eventually.
 
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