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

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I think the issue with the majors is the entry cost to a plant. Over the long haul it’s profitable but captital expenditure for long term sustainable profits is out for public companies in these sad days. It’s all artificially inflated share prices and dividends.

Completely agree. I was just trying to make the point that quality vs. costs is always a valid point for criticism. It makes sense to complain about the distribution side. To pawn it off and say, “well, they don’t handle that in house because it’s not cost effective”, rings a bit hollow because there are other areas within their business model that are essentially the same or similar (CS and Production) where they decided to bring those elements in house presumably so they could have a high level of QC even if it came at a greater cost.

 

[Twentytwo]

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Pentagram Home Video Presents: Freddy Carrie Cruiser Performing: Haunted

Pentagram Home Video Presents 'Freddy Carrie Cruiser Performing: Haunted' is available on exclusive Black Marble vinyl.

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'Room' Art Print

“Room” features as cover art for: Pentagram Home Video presents Freddy Carrie Cruiser performing Haunted. Art by Jennifer Dionisio. 17x14, 4 color screenprint printed by DL Screenprint in Seattle, Washington.

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Who sits at VMP and thinks you know what would really sell? This!

 

[Nee Lewman]

Who sits at VMP and thinks you know what would really sell? This!

I mean I’ve been thinking that what would make my room better was to put a picture of a room in it.

 

[Twentytwo]

I mean I’ve been thinking that what would make my room better was to put a picture of a room in it.

The influencers and hipsters will eat this shit up.

 

[Nee Lewman]

The influencers and hipsters will eat this shit up.

Ooooh a thirty minute video from ol slow vape about how it is dimensionally perfect.

 

[NewsFedora]

Who sits at VMP and thinks you know what would really sell? This!

Per discord I guess this is something that the Mondo crew might be familiar with? Idk I’m not hating it, it just seems like a pretty random release.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Per discord I guess this is something that the Mondo crew might be familiar with? Idk I’m not hating it, it just seems like a pretty random release.

The newsletter said it is Doom Metal. I have to say this release confounds my brain. I kind of want to let it remain unheard and let it be a whole Schrodinger’s cat situation.

 

[Hemotep]

The newsletter said it is Doom Metal. I have to say this release confounds my brain. I kind of want to let it remain unheard and let it be a whole Schrodinger’s cat situation.

I've only heard one of their albums before but it was not anything close to doom metal. Maybe this one is though.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I've only heard one of their albums before but it was not anything close to doom metal. Maybe this one is though.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Maybe it’s a typo and it’s supposed to say “room metal riffs”?

 

[TCell]

Per discord I guess this is something that the Mondo crew might be familiar with? Idk I’m not hating it, it just seems like a pretty random release.

I listened to the one track and it seems fine, but also like the kind of anonymous Spotify artists that are just filler.

I guess my question is why would one spend $41 on this vs just buying the Blue Velvet soundtrack? Or Scott Walker’s The Drift? Or a Nick Cave album?

 

[Nee Lewman]

I listened to the one track and it seems fine, but also like the kind of anonymous Spotify artists that are just filler.

I guess my question is why would one spend $41 on this vs just buying the Blue Velvet soundtrack? Or Scott Walker’s The Drift? Or a Nick Cave album?

Because VMP said to?

 

[TCell]

Because VMP said to?

I’ve discovered some cool music through VMP over the years…Moses Sumney, Gang of Youths, John Moreland in the past; even Chalino Sanchez and Michael White recently, but I can not imagine blind buying from them now.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I’ve discovered some cool music through VMP over the years…Moses Sumney, Gang of Youths, John Moreland in the past; even Chalino Sanchez and Michael White recently, but I can imagine blind buying from them.

I hear you. $41 is a big ask for “trust us, it’s a record, you’ll love it”

 

[Nee Lewman]

Especially when you can’t even tell what it is from reading the gibberish they came up with to describe it.

 

[Joe Mac]

Ooooh a thirty minute video from ol slow vape about how it is dimensionally perfect.

30 minutes? He must have got a whole 5 words out.

 

[Selaws]

“Fuck Mike, Too (but not that Mike)”

The list of Mikes left on the table is getting real thin. @MikeH is sweating....

 

[MikeH]

Completely agree. I was just trying to make the point that quality vs. costs is always a valid point for criticism. It makes sense to complain about the distribution side. To pawn it off and say, “well, they don’t handle that in house because it’s not cost effective”, rings a bit hollow because there are other areas within their business model that are essentially the same or similar (CS and Production) where they decided to bring those elements in house presumably so they could have a high level of QC even if it came at a greater cost.

Who knows—maybe they will open their own warehouse one day too. I’d bet that costs from production are much more than distribution costs (record costs more to make than to fulfill/ship). So if they are only paying hard costs for production now, their profit margins will be bigger than had they done a warehouse before a plant. That was my overall point. Obviously if they did a plant and distribution themselves it could even be more profitable long term. Would be interesting to find out what the cost per unit is for production of a run of 10,000 records is at GZ. Plating in-house will also save them some money I imagine.

 

[spilledleche]

swaps opened early - just grabbed that Waylon anthology

 

[avecigrec]

BOOM!