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

Twentytwo said:
Pretty much how I feel about 90% percent of VMP exclusives. I mean I have heard of a lot of them but I am like who actually listens to them.
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*raises hand* It isn't like VMP is going far afield here

I've liked the last 2 Jenny Hval albums, and while she's on the experimental/avant garde side and I have to be in the right frame of mind, she makes truly interesting music. While I knew she'd been well-received, still a little surprised to see her make the jump from Sacred Bones to 4AD.

Different aspects of indie rock, but both Camp Cope (Australian female trio, indie/punk) and Hatchie (Australian synthy dream pop) are worth your time if you're into that sort of thing.
 
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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Same boat for me. For $20 or so, I’d take a chance on rising artists or albums I wasn’t 100% familiar with. If I didn’t like it I could always PIF or sell it at what I paid for it. Kate Bollinger, Still Woozy and Holy Hive were three of my favorites. Just can’t justify it anymore price-wise. I still stream the jazz reissues and some other older reissues they do just to see if anything grabs my attention but haven’t heard any true exclusives that I’ve really wanted to drop $30+ on
 
I was curious to see when was the last time I bought a non-jazz exclusive that was a "new artist discovery" and it turns out it was exactly a year ago with the All Things Blue Rising release.
 
NewsFedora said:
I was curious to see when was the last time I bought a non-jazz exclusive that was a "new artist discovery" and it turns out it was exactly a year ago with the All Things Blue Rising release.
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my last two seem to be Jaunt and JLloyd - Kosmos. i think i have listened to each of them approximately once.
 
MikeH said:
my last two seem to be Jaunt and JLloyd - Kosmos. i think i have listened to each of them approximately once.
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That's a bummer. I will say I really did like All Things Blue (I'm spinning it right now) but it was an early precursor of how 2021 would shape up: going through multiple copies due to warping/surface noise issues from a Gz pressing.
 
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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Same here. It was fun for a while but I’m much pickier nowadays.
 
NewsFedora said:
Irma Thomas secured. Ready to Die was a tempting add-on to flip in three months but I just am not that kinda fella. I'll just keep spinning the copy I picked up in 2018.
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My wife paid way too much thankfully for a copy like a year and a half ago for my birthday from a flipper on Amazon so didn't have to enter this madness...but there's also the general repress for those who missed out. My local still has copies for $40 CAD.
 
Happy to see another Irma Thomas swap here, this is a gem I think. Of course I would have been all over Ready To Die too had a very generous friend and fellow VMP subscriber not already gifted me his copy a few years ago.
 
oldschoolkirby said:
Damn, didn’t get to swaps in time for biggie. Was going to nab it for my kiddo. If anybody got an extra I’d be happy to buy it
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Do you NEED to VMP version? Because there's a newer press out there.

EDIT: Not sure how shipping is to the US, but it's pretty cheap to Canada from here.
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Ready to Die

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oldschoolkirby said:
Oh geez, didn’t even realize that 🤦🏼‍♂️ Thanks. Is it essentially the same mastering and everything minus the color?
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bdrummond said:
Hmmm...from what I'm reading the 2021 doesn't have the "OG Samples" that the VMP version does. Not sure exactly where the missing samples are but I guess there's the downside.
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There are 2 tracks impacted: Machine Gun Funk & Ready to Die. Personally this album is a classic for me so it's easy to notice the omissions because they make the choruses seem less lively

The original Machine Gun Funk has a sample of some singing and trumpets (0:50 second mark) from Up for the Down Stroke by Fred Wesley:


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The original Ready to Die has a sample of a horn section (1:05 mark) from Singing in the Morning by Ohio Players:


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It's a huge difference for me but for others it may not be that huge of a deal
 
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