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

MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Board meeting.
- Well discord hates us and mystery bundles are just pissing people off. What are we gonna do to save the company?
Matt - we could order some hats from cafe press.
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"Oh yeah, and let's make one of the hats a narcocorridos celebration, because that captures the spirit of VMP." What?
Next thing you know, these rebels from society will be including mixed drink recipes with their liner notes. 😉
 
bdrummond said:
Listen, if any of the Toronto members here see me wearing one of these around town, then I give full written permission to push me in the middle of the street and hope that traffic is ACTUALLY going fast enough to do some lasting damage.
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Imagining you getting smacked by a car and hurtling through the air, with hat flying off, and some vey nice Canadian dropping their Tim Horton's coffee and diving through the air (in slow motion) to save . . . the hat, before it gets scuffed or stained by street grime. End Scene and Cut: to you leaving hospital in wheelchair wearing the hat.
 
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My wife picked this one because "it sounds interesting", and I'm probably going to sell it this week as we will likely never listen to it again (along with Kim Gordon's latest attempt at trap music, and some duplicates laying about), ever. Looking at discog prices this seemingly has negative value. VMP probably told them as part of their deal they HAVE to take all their copies. They were never going to sell them, and it's honestly one of VMP's most baffling picks. I cannot see a world in which someone pays $51.38 + shipping for it.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Looking at this list, maybe they should've cut the R&HH sub.
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There are some certified classics in that list.
The problem is though some of these either aren't exclusive, or weren't exclusive for long. I picked up a number of titles in the R&HH sub over the years, but I can truly say there's a lot of them I regret paying the cost of a sub for within the year. Like I remember signing up for a month for Gravediggaz and being super pumped VMP was doing it. Fast forward a couple of months and I'm yelling "for fucks sake" in the record store.
 
bdrummond said:
There are some certified classics in that list.
The problem is though some of these either aren't exclusive, or weren't exclusive for long. I picked up a number of titles in the R&HH sub over the years, but I can truly say there's a lot of them I regret paying the cost of a sub for within the year. Like I remember signing up for a month for Gravediggaz and being super pumped VMP was doing it. Fast forward a couple of months and I'm yelling "for fucks sake" in the record store.
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Definitely. R&HH is the one I subbed to when I was there. The value presented just didn't cut it for me. It's stuff that would eventually be on uDiscover for $8, which at that point I'd pick them up.
 
Biscuit said:
"Oh yeah, and let's make one of the hats a narcocorridos celebration, because that captures the spirit of VMP." What?
Next thing you know, these rebels from society will be including mixed drink recipes with their liner notes. 😉
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It makes me think of that Documentary Now episode of the Vice "reporters" going down to Mexico to find the cartels and they keep getting shipped back to Vice in plastic barrels.
 
bdrummond said:
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My wife picked this one because "it sounds interesting", and I'm probably going to sell it this week as we will likely never listen to it again (along with Kim Gordon's latest attempt at trap music, and some duplicates laying about), ever. Looking at discog prices this seemingly has negative value. VMP probably told them as part of their deal they HAVE to take all their copies. They were never going to sell them, and it's honestly one of VMP's most baffling picks. I cannot see a world in which someone pays $51.38 + shipping for it.
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I actually really like this one but I wouldn’t pay $50 for it
 
bdrummond said:
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My wife picked this one because "it sounds interesting", and I'm probably going to sell it this week as we will likely never listen to it again (along with Kim Gordon's latest attempt at trap music, and some duplicates laying about), ever. Looking at discog prices this seemingly has negative value. VMP probably told them as part of their deal they HAVE to take all their copies. They were never going to sell them, and it's honestly one of VMP's most baffling picks. I cannot see a world in which someone pays $51.38 + shipping for it.
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My local wouldn't even buy that one off me haha. It is actually a pretty cool album IMO. but just didn't get spins from me.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Looking at this list, maybe they should've cut the R&HH sub.
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Supposedly it's one of the better selling tracks. It's one of the only tracks that sells out stuff still.

I think doing this is definitely....a strategy. And probably a good thing for people in the EU that want to grab a VMP record without subbing...probably a way to try right the ship financially after lots of bad decisions. More likely to piss off customers and lower subscriber numbers especially for internationals. Part of me wonders if they will get rid of international subs altogether and replace it with something like this where they stock their records at HHV or some other EU shops.
 
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