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

Joe Mac said:
It kinda makes a mockery of the whole album of the month club idea although to be fair they’ve been doing that pretty consistently the last couple of years.
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i think people just like to complain haha. releases aren't "essential" enough. VMP doesn't do enough "lost sounds found" type releases, etc.

them doing Nilsson Pussycats in essentials doesn't bother me because it's not like they are only doing that album and ignoring all his other work. the only people it really affects is VMP themselves, when they are stuck with copies of it for years.
 
MikeH said:
maybe...but there are definitely other albums they wanted to do as a ROTM in the past and they couldn't get the license to press that many copies. so they ended up as store exclusives.
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I mean I guess that’s one thing if you are printing every other album by the artist. I get them not doing Schmilson because there are a million pressings but on what planet is the label like well give you this many of this one and this one but forget it on this one and this one….
MikeH said:
at the end of the day, doesn't matter to me. the store exclusives are given the same type of treatment and are cheaper so this works for me hah
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I still don’t understand this line from you. With a code yeah but their exclusives are almost always higher priced than an add on.

It seems more likely that the licensing cost enough that they don’t want to shorten their margins. Which is fine.

And the easiest answer is usually the right answer, they often make bizarre choices cause they want to…
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean I guess that’s one thing if you are printing every other album by the artist. I get them not doing Schmilson because there are a million pressings but on what planet is the label like well give you this many of this one and this one but forget it on this one and this one….
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Nilsson sings Newman had the speakers corner and the analog spark, which are both easily found too when I last looked on discogs. I think you'd be surprised at how some of these labels work for reissues. I know Intervention has tried to get certain titles from artists and were unable to either for the price or the labels just straight up said "no".

Lee Newman said:
I still don’t understand this line from you. With a code yeah but their exclusives are almost always higher priced than an add on.

It seems more likely that the licensing cost enough that they don’t want to shorten their margins. Which is fine.
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i meant that it's cheaper because they seem to have the codes every month. you're right though--forgot how much the store versions of Nilsson were because I think I ended up paying $22 a piece in sales if not less.

Lee Newman said:
And the easiest answer is usually the right answer, they often make bizarre choices cause they want to…
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this also definitely happens. i don't disagree that some of it is "this tells the best story"-- i just don't think that's the only reason why it was chosen.
 
MikeH said:
i think people just like to complain haha. releases aren't "essential" enough. VMP doesn't do enough "lost sounds found" type releases, etc.

them doing Nilsson Pussycats in essentials doesn't bother me because it's not like they are only doing that album and ignoring all his other work. the only people it really affects is VMP themselves, when they are stuck with copies of it for years.
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Honestly I don’t see how you could possibley pick this album for your headline track for an album of a month club and think it’s the right call. It’s like the main draw and advertisement for new customers and you pick an album in which he gets pissed and high with Lennon and wrecks his voice. I’d definitely think they’re best with less “lost sounds found”, they’re not very good at it.
 
I mean I get it from a story telling perspective. It is not a very good album and fairly universal seen as a not very good album. It is strictly in the diehard/sadist voyeur category not essential. Either you have to have every Nilsson or you also have Charlie Manson’s album. Edit: it occurs to me that Venn diagram might be a circle and well they did sell Manson in their shop back in the day.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean I get it from a story telling perspective. It is not a very good album and fairly universal seen as a not very good album. It is strictly in the diehard/sadist voyeur category not essential. Either you have to have every Nilsson or you also have Charlie Manson’s album. Edit: it occurs to me that Venn diagram might be a circle and well they did sell Manson in their shop back in the day.
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Can you remember all the ethical standpoints they used to profess about not supporting artists with dodgy pasts and then every time someone would say “Erm, you sold Manson’s album”. 🤦🏻
 
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