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

I haven't regularly used VMP since roughly 2018 when they annexed the forum, jacked up their prices and lost quality control. The lone exception was a 3 album binge last winter when they released Mars Volta and QotSA.

The insane pricing on store exclusives make me wanna vomit and I've spent $40 on a record maybe 5x over the years. Like I'm lower middle class bitches 😂

That said, Grimes' Visions is a top 10 album of all-time for me and the OG pressing is dogshit. So I've been eying that for a long minute. And despite mad Beasties love I only have their first 2 albums (one was a gift, the other purchased on sale for $15) due to to the nearly $40 price tags.

Which means that the release of Check Your Head @ $40 has me thinking of 3 album splurging.

So-- couple questions

A) Those of you that have Visions-- is it a quality pressing?
B) How is the 36 Chambers pressing, the Darkside pressing and / or the Bright Eyes pressings? I have a copy of Wide Awake that is pretty meh. My OG Physic sounds great but that's a top 10 electronic album for me so I'm tempted. But of the 3 I lean towards Wu because I don't own a copy since the ones on market typically have really bad reviews on Discogs.

Thanks!
 
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DownIsTheNewUp said:
I haven't regularly used VMP since roughly 2018 when they annexed the forum, jacked up their prices and lost quality control. The lone exception was a 3 album binge last winter when they released Mars Volta and QotSA.

The insane pricing on store exclusives make me wanna vomit and I've spent $40 on a record maybe 5x over the years. Like I'm lower middle class bitches 😂

That said, Grimes' Visions is a top 10 album of all-time for me and the OG pressing is dogshit. So I've been eying that for a long minute. And despite mad Beasties love I only have their first 2 albums (one was a gift, the other purchased on sale for $15) due to to the nearly $40 price tags.

Which means that the release of Check Your Head @ $40 has me thinking of 3 album splurging.

So-- couple questions

A) Those of you that have Visions-- is it a quality pressing?
B) How is the 36 Chambers pressing, the Darkside pressing and / or the Bright Eyes pressings? I have a copy of Wide Awake that is pretty meh. My OG Physic sounds great but that's a top 10 electronic album for me so I'm tempted. But of the 3 I lean towards Wu because I don't own a copy since the ones on market typically have really bad reviews on Discogs.

Thanks!
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I don’t have a copy to compare it against, but I thought Bright Eyes sounded fantastic. However, my first copy was riddled with noise so I had to ask for a replacement. The replacement was dead silent thankfully.

I was never able to get a good copy of Wu-Tang and I I think most people had issues with theirs as well.
 
jfitzy said:
I don’t have a copy to compare it against, but I thought Bright Eyes sounded fantastic. However, my first copy was riddled with noise so I had to ask for a replacement. The replacement was dead silent thankfully.

I was never able to get a good copy of Wu-Tang and I I think most people had issues with theirs as well.
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I also never got a good pressing of Wu. Darkside sounds great. If you're a fan- the Interpol is a big improvement over the one I got a few years back.
 
Twentytwo said:
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In The Dark

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Said this on the discord, but this is a comp for what they did with Spirit In the Dark. Get a great engineer to do a new mastering of something that hasn't been pressed in a while and then press it into oblivion at an attractive price point (5k copies is what I'm seeing). Think this one is going to be really good, but I don't think it lasts as long as Aretha has with all the Dead Heads out there.
 
tvham said:
Was just going to say, I'll probably buy this but would definitely prefer a pressing of Apartment Life.
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Already own them, BUT repressings of Lately and Realistic would be welcome too (to retire my originals). However, I don't see a lot of albums from Seed Records ever getting reissued, so who knows if that will happen...
 
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