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

keylime_5 said:
I really want that Ready to Die, but no doubt it's gonna be either a shitshow with a crashed site, or it's gonna sell out in like 30 seconds
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I think it'll be around for a few minutes. Pauly said on reddit: "Can't talk specifics around how many copies, but this IS NOT a 'we found copies in the back' type situation."

My guess: a smallish repress of a few hundred. They'll split some for swaps and then have the rest up in the store after February 1.
 
Selaws said:
There's a ton of interesting bits in this month.

Alan Shorter - Orgasm
Medeski, Martin & Wood - The Dropper
Jazz Is Dead - 7
Jazz Is Dead - 8
Irma Thomas - Down At Muscle Shoals
Relief - A Benefit For The Jazz Foundation...
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Booker Ervin - The Book Cooks
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worth noting that Book Cooks is available on black vinyl for around $23 elsewhere.
 
Selaws said:
There's a ton of interesting bits in this month.

Alan Shorter - Orgasm
Medeski, Martin & Wood - The Dropper
Jazz Is Dead - 7
Jazz Is Dead - 8
Irma Thomas - Down At Muscle Shoals
Relief - A Benefit For The Jazz Foundation...
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Booker Ervin - The Book Cooks
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I highly recommend Alan Shorter’s Orgasm and Medeski, Martin & Wood’s The Dropper! Those two pressings sounds phenomenal and both are great, experimental-esque albums! I think BADBADNOTGOOD’s Talk Memory is a pretty great album too - it makes for a nice swaption if you want a modern jazz record!
 
I’m getting 2/4 ROTM’s for the February picks! I’m getting the Essentials ROTM - Grimes’ Visions, and getting the Classics ROTM - Sylvester’s Step II. I think both albums are excellent, and I think Grimes’ Visions is an album that has actually aged better with time!

I think the Rap & Hip-Hop and Country picks for February are quite weak - they aren’t mediocre albums, but also aren’t great albums in my opinion! The Loretta Lynn pick in particular is boring! I still do love Coal Miner’s Daughter however - a stellar ROTM!

Unfortunately, I felt the same for January’s Rap & Hip-Hop pick - that E-40 album is a decent album, but I think it hasn’t aged too well. Tha Hall of Game is nothing amazing in my opinion! The January Country pick - Iris DeMent’s Infamous Angel, is an album I wasn’t familiar with and didn’t connect with at first listen. Even though Infamous Angel is a skip for me, it seems to be a great pick if you love Country music!

The Sigur Ros (Essentials) and Barbara Lea (Classics) picks last month for January were both excellent picks however! Both albums were great discoveries for me!
 
Seeing Ready to Die this month and Blazing Arrow last month give me hope that Tical may actually come up next month when I'm signing back up for a month to get Modest Mouse. That's the dream.
 
NathanRicaud said:
I’m getting 2/4 ROTM’s for the February picks! I’m getting the Essentials ROTM - Grimes’ Visions, and getting the Classics ROTM - Sylvester’s Step II. I think both albums are excellent, and I think Grimes’ Visions is an album that has actually aged better with time!

I think the Rap & Hip-Hop and Country picks for February are quite weak - they aren’t mediocre albums, but also aren’t great albums in my opinion! The Loretta Lynn pick in particular is boring! I still do love Coal Miner’s Daughter however - a stellar ROTM!

Unfortunately, I felt the same for January’s Rap & Hip-Hop pick - that E-40 album is a decent album, but I think it hasn’t aged too well. Tha Hall of Game is nothing amazing in my opinion! The January Country pick - Iris DeMent’s Infamous Angel, is an album I wasn’t familiar with and didn’t connect with at first listen. Even though Infamous Angel is a skip for me, it seems to be a great pick if you love Country music!

The Sigur Ros (Essentials) and Barbara Lea (Classics) picks last month for January were both excellent picks however! Both albums were great discoveries for me!
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Nathan! It's good to see you! Glad to see you are alright.
 
NewsFedora said:
Part of the appeal of VMP for me was always discovering new artists I otherwise might have never heard of, but QC issues and price increases kind of put a damper on that. Now I usually don't bother sampling a new drop I'm unfamiliar with unless other people are hyping it.
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Yeah, I use to love A-B coming on and hyping the newest VMP Rising artists. Definitely got turned on to acts I love that I may not have discovered - and bought their records! Moses Sumney, Gang of Youths, Toulouse, Middle Kids, etc.

Not sure when the last time I even streamed a VMP Rising artist, let along bought their album.
 
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