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

Twentytwo said:
They are on the smaller labels for a reason. VMP has no reason to do an exclusive unless it is for a Rising. Same goes for a lot of the New West Country stuff they have pressed in the past. Multiple variants and VMP being most expensive means highly likely not to sell out and sit in the store forever.
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Providing it’s in store stuff and you don’t overdo the initial pressing run that’s kinda laudable. The shop is a place where you can play a bit more because you can limit initial pressings etc. it’s their tracks that truly baffle me.
 
MikeH said:
I think at the very least we would agree that they need some new voices in curation. I think VMP forgets how expensive their subscription is sometimes lol
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Oh god yes. They need more women to start with, the women they’ve had in the past have wiped the floor with himself. Sadly there does seem to have been a toxic atmosphere there. They could also do with some voices that have a bit of experience of the 80s scenes and of scenes outside the states.
 
Joe Mac said:
Oh god yes. They need more women to start with, the women they’ve had in the past have wiped the floor with himself. Sadly there does seem to have been a toxic atmosphere there. They could also do with some voices that have a bit of experience of the 80s scenes and of scenes outside the states.
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Well you’re gonna get 2 albums from The Clash this year and you’re gonna like it!
 
TrainFan73 said:
But not London Calling! Which means I am probably gonna bite on both. My theory is Combat Rock in Essentials and US Self titled in rock. What we’ll probably get is UK self in Essentials and US Self in Rock.
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Were the both confirmed as ROTM? Or one as store exclusive? I haven’t been following it a ton.

I somehow ended up with 2 copies of the KG cut of self-titled. But don’t have Combat Rock, London Calling or Sandinista.
 
MikeH said:
Or, ya know, they cleared a ton of inventory space for records that weren't selling and got people to subscribe for a year or longer while adding on tracks and buying store exclusives on top of it.

Not every place that has sales is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Didn’t make the assertion you mentioned in your last sentence, but ok 👍🏻

In reference to your initial sentence, It could be. I don’t know a lot about their business strategy currently. I am aware that they changed the modeling at least three times while I was a member.

However, the timing of their inventory clearing ‘sale’ coupled with the court filings this year would, to me anyway, indicate less of a loss leader strategy and more leveraging non-forecasted revenue to prop up either overspending on a new venture (hello VMP pressing plant) or an unbalanced capital structure. The firings/layoffs of staff coupled with the C-Suite shakeup are also factors that could contribute to that theory.

However, short of additional filings that help to illuminate the situation, we’re all just speculating. 😎
 
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