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

[bdrummond]

Second hand embarrassment intensifies...

 

[bdrummond]

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.

 

[serotonein]

A promo postcard was in my (final?) box, offering up a free VMP/Creem shirt if I subscribed to Creem for a year. I'd almost be into it if it wasn't for the dueling logos at the bottom.

CREEM | Bury Me With My Records T-Shirt

www.creem.com

 

[Mather]

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.

TAKING THE UNDER

light leg scrape, teeny bruise

 

[bdrummond]

TAKING THE UNDER

light leg scrape, teeny bruise

It'll have to be in the morning, while I'm on a bicycle by a dump truck because those fuckers have a 99% mortality rate before 9am.

 

[bdm105]

A promo postcard was in my (final?) box, offering up a free VMP/Creem shirt if I subscribed to Creem for a year. I'd almost be into it if it wasn't for the dueling logos at the bottom.

CREEM | Bury Me With My Records T-Shirt

www.creem.com

I think I had one of these in my box but didn't look close enough to what it was

 

[Rowan]

“Best piece of merch we’ve ever offered drops today” - Storf

Was there something I missed somewhere?

Now we know what the rush to clear all those records out the warehouse was for though

 

[serotonein]

I think I had one of these in my box but didn't look close enough to what it was

I perked up when I saw Creem because I have a Boy Howdy coffee mug from the KS for their relaunch. It's not what it was in its heyday but I'm glad it's back in existence.

 

[serotonein]

Now we know what the rush to clear all those records out the warehouse was for though

Cut to August 2025 - Free hat with every purchase of Gus Cannon!

 

[Skalap]

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Yes.

JFC. The Hype Machine truly has no shame.

 

[Biscuit]

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.

"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.

 

[Portland Sheriff]

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.

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.

 

[HAIMtime]

I have no idea if this means anything....but interesting still.

 

[bdrummond]

I have no idea if this means anything....but interesting still.

Everything screams "garage sale"

 

[Biscuit]

I have no idea if this means anything....but interesting still.

Last call for alcohol

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

I have no idea if this means anything....but interesting still.

Looking at this list, maybe they should've cut the R&HH sub.

 

[bdrummond]

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.

 

[bdrummond]

Looking at this list, maybe they should've cut the R&HH sub.

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.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

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.

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.