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

I've been away from.VMP and related threads for so long, it's good to know everyone is still hating and talking this much shit years later.

That's not sarcasm either. I mentally sat myself down and prepared myself not to come rolling is as "the negative one" again. A day in and I feel like Nathan Ricaud up in this piece.

This club has stolen y'alls souls!!!
 
Dead C said:
I've been away from.VMP and related threads for so long, it's good to know everyone is still hating and talking this much shit years later.

That's not sarcasm either. I mentally sat myself down and prepared myself not to come rolling is as "the negative one" again. A day in and I feel like Nathan Ricaud up in this piece.

This club has stolen y'alls souls!!!
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Nah, $60 for yield? they deserve the hate they get on this bullshit.
 
Here's what I think will likely happen: VMP can now finally market themselves as a proper audiophile alternative to AP and Mofi, they pilfered some of their talent for the plant from these labels after all. They are going to market the plant as an alternative to QRP or RTI or Pallas, it will be sold as being on par with the best of the best (and time will tell, but it could be, they've got good people working there). They are going to do what AP and Mofi can't or won't, they're going to press what they claim to be audiophile pressings of new music, or at least music recorded in the past 30 years, unlike AP or Mofi. And as a result they will start pricing their albums on par with AP and Mofi. I bet these albums (depending on provenance, actual remasters vs just coloured pressings) will be around $65+ USD for the AAA remasters and more like $40-50 for the coloured presses. Time will tell if the plant is actually any good or not, but I bet after a while it gets to be decent, though I'm sure off the top it'll be rough waters for a while. I don't know what the price of a membership is gunna be once they start pressing all the discs themselves but I gotta think that will take a long while to get to the point they can actually press the numbers required for ROTM stuff.
 
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Mather said:
I can almost guarantee what's going to happen now is this: VMP can now finally market themselves as a proper audiophile alternative to AP and Mofi, they pilfered some of their talent for the plant from these labels after all. They are going to market the plant as an alternative to QRP or RTI or Pallas, it will be sold as being on par with the best of the best (and time will tell, but it could be, they've got good people working there). They are going to do what AP and Mofi can't or won't, they're going to press what they claim to be audiophile pressings of new music, or at least music recorded in the past 30 years, unlike AP or Mofi. And as a result they will start pricing their albums on par with AP and Mofi. I bet these albums (depending on provenance, actual remasters vs just coloured pressings) will be around $65+ USD for the AAA remasters and more like $40-50 for the coloured presses. Time will tell if the plant is actually any good or not, but I bet after a while it gets to be decent, though I'm sure off the top it'll be rough waters for a while. I don't know what the price of a membership is gunna be one they start pressing all the discs themselves but I gotta think that will take a long while to get to the point they can actually press the numbers required for ROTM stuff.
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Has it even been confirmed that Yield is AAA?
You're likely right, here but man, that's a hard pill to swallow.
 
bdrummond said:
Has it even been confirmed that Yield is AAA?
You're likely right, here but man, that's a hard pill to swallow.
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No no no I'm totally speculating just going forward that's the plan, to be the contemporary AP/Mofi audiophile label. I have no clue if Yield is even a remaster or anything.

Nothing in the language on that sale page says anything about a remaster etc. Appears to just be the usual coloured pressing of a wide release. But who knows, I mean they did it with that David Gray release where they inexplicably had the only 45 version of it released. Anythings possible.
 
Mather said:
No no no I'm totally speculating just going forward that's the plan, to be the contemporary AP/Mofi audiophile label. I have no clue if Yield is even a remaster or anything.
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I meant you're likely right on the future plans.
I'd love to know the mastering details on Yield. If they're charging this much for a non-AAA repress of the same album I can get for about half as much and calling it a 25th anniversary issues then the chances of me ever coming back are pretty much dead.

I'm moving closer to Rotate This though so that's fine by me.
 
bdrummond said:
I'd love to know the mastering details on Yield.
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Remastering DetailsThe Band's Preferred Mastering Engineer, Levi Seitz At Blackbelt Mastering, Is Cutting The Lacquers And Metalwork Will Be Made At VMP Pressing Plant Under The Supervision Of Gary Salstrom
It's never been on 2LP, so it'll be completely different from what's out there. It's not $55 to me, but I'm sure some big PJ fans are going to be into it.
 
bdrummond said:
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Yield (25th Anniversary Edition)

'Yield (25th Anniversary Edition)' by Pearl Jam is available on exclusive Translucent Red and Black Hi-melt vinyl.
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MEEEEH
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There's no pressing limit so this will make its way into swaps eventually. And it being a 2LP pressing is great for fans of this album.

Regardless, kind of an underwhelming record they're deciding to start out with.
 
Mather said:
Here's what I think will likely happen: VMP can now finally market themselves as a proper audiophile alternative to AP and Mofi, they pilfered some of their talent for the plant from these labels after all. They are going to market the plant as an alternative to QRP or RTI or Pallas, it will be sold as being on par with the best of the best (and time will tell, but it could be, they've got good people working there). They are going to do what AP and Mofi can't or won't, they're going to press what they claim to be audiophile pressings of new music, or at least music recorded in the past 30 years, unlike AP or Mofi. And as a result they will start pricing their albums on par with AP and Mofi. I bet these albums (depending on provenance, actual remasters vs just coloured pressings) will be around $65+ USD for the AAA remasters and more like $40-50 for the coloured presses. Time will tell if the plant is actually any good or not, but I bet after a while it gets to be decent, though I'm sure off the top it'll be rough waters for a while. I don't know what the price of a membership is gunna be one they start pressing all the discs themselves but I gotta think that will take a long while to get to the point they can actually press the numbers required for ROTM stuff.
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I recently had a friend pick something up - maybe it was the Armand Hammer - and they said they were excited because it was their first VMP pressing. I just thought, "what?! The same VMP that continuously fucked EVERYTHING up at every turn in every conceivable way - and plenty of inconceivable ways - especially in false advertising and quality control. Do people really have a positive image of these dicks in the industry?" For those who remember, I was wishing doom on these clowns really heavy. I hoped they would collapse and go under but... here we are. Prices keep rising and new people keep paying them.
 
Mather said:
No no no I'm totally speculating just going forward that's the plan, to be the contemporary AP/Mofi audiophile label. I have no clue if Yield is even a remaster or anything.

Nothing in the language on that sale page says anything about a remaster etc. Appears to just be the usual coloured pressing of a wide release. But who knows, I mean they did it with that David Gray release where they inexplicably had the only 45 version of it released. Anythings possible.
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I don't know whether Yield was recorded to tape, though with Pearl Jam's hanging out with Neil Young in the mid-90s, it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

I've got an original press and the 2016 repress, and they're both single disc, so I'm intrigued by VMP's being two-disc. I found out about this from my 10C email; I'm not currently a VMP member. If this shows up as one of the choices for a free record for resubscription, I might do it. Or I might just go ahead and resubscribe for a few months, choose another free record(s), and swap for credit to get this.

I was a HUGE Pearl Jam fan in the '90s, though I wasn't too interested in the last couple of albums. But the more time passes, the more I think No Code and Yield were their best albums. I'm more excited about the upcoming RSD Give Way than this, but there are worse albums VMP could pick than Yield, that's for sure.
 
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