I am not gonna bail but I am cutting way back. I have around 1800 albums and l feel like I am always playing catch up with my new additions that I don’t fully get to enjoy my library of wax. My plan is to cut down to 1 or 2 albums a month. And with all these price increases, it makes that decision even easier.
I think you know the right answer here.
the airhead is where half the money is
The top comment on Reddit did make me chuckle “And the crowd goes mild!”
I’m on the discord since there are some interesting tidbits dropped every now and again about upcoming releases. It was a bit more divided than I thought. People seemed upset about a few things:
Exactly - this one and Spirit in the Dark, especially, were pretty much insta-buys for me.
… Good shit too, like those Flying Lotus albums and Stax and Motown anthologies. I just don’t foresee listening to them much 
I have waffled on trying to get the Stax or Motown anthologies but realized it’s mostly one or two titles from each I’d really love and listen to a lot. I picked up a breakout of Syreeta on eBay and it’s amazing.My plan for VMP going forward, for now, is strictly one per month until my subscription expires in August, then I’ll reevaluate based on how good the picks have been. Historically I’d just add on a track or two if I was interested in more than one ROTM… but no more!
I’m going to sell off a good chunk of past impulse buy exclusives too. So many I just listened to once and shelved
Yep, pretty much my plan - backfilling the few from each box set I care about... I picked up the Supremes album from RSD BF, and just got that Otis Redding box set. Most of the artists in the Stax anthology have better albums that came out as VMP Classics anyway. I recall feeling underwhelmed listening through that anthology in general (not sound-wise, just with the records they picked).
Contact CS. They should take care of you. They charged my PayPal account for my three month renewal (I requested they use my store credits, but due to the holidays I don't think they got the request before my sub renewed automatically. I contacted CS and they refunded my PayPal account fully and used my credits even though I'm pretty sure I was about $10 short.
I'll shoot them an email. They've usually been very helpful but wasn't sure on what their stance is on cancel/refund of subs, especially 1-months. But the record is delayed until later this month so it hasn't started processing yet (i think) so it should be pretty easy for them to cancel and refund.
Revisiting this article (and actually reading it through), I wonder if prices change depending on the store in question and their buying power (not sure on how it works tbh). I know one of the stores in the article (Millpond), and I wouldn't consider them a player at all. In fact last time I've been to them they were operating out of a junky house acting more as an antiques store than the book store they used to be. They deal more in used records than new for the most part.VMP didn't want to miss out on boarding this train(wreck). Quote from the article:
'BLOOD FROM STONE': Huge price increases coming for vinyl albums
Get ready to shell out more cash for new vinyl records of your favourite artists starting next month.torontosun.com
Update: no problem! Sub canceled and refund issued. Didn’t give a reason or anything on why I wanted to cancel.
I had a few friends who worked in the warehouse at A&B. They would get an employee discount on everything (15%) and it was applied to the store price not the MSRP. So they would buy cds and and sell them to local stores. Until management caught on they were making a a buck a cd.
