The tracks haven’t reduced yet though. Next month. Country and rock were still in play.
Interesting. I haven't been a member in ages, gratefully, and have only been following the headline news. Still likely they reduced pressing numbers, no?
I reckon they just had really poor Rock and Country picks so everyone bailed and went to essentials (and classics which also looks sold out). Basically just didn't plan for the exodus that some piss poor curation inspired
They're the Donald Trump of record clubs. 99% spin and gold foil.
Not a serious company.
I don’t know that Nickel Creek was poor curation. Just didn’t make any sense given the fact that there was a high quality audiophile version available. They had the nonesuch thing going, Dotted Line needs a repress….
Their logic seems sound if they were new to this business model. There are several pretty obvious red flags they should have accounted for, like lame other tracks, the fact that people that were bummed about two Ramones titles were not likely bummed about Rocket To Russia, and the fact that the past three LP essential titles underperformed meant there were even fewer desirable swaptions.
I like the Ramones. I think It's Alive is one of the great, great live albums. I think Too Tough to Die has 55 seconds of brilliance, 4 minutes of pretty goodness and the rest is waaaaaaay, waaaaaay down the list of anything I'd ever pull if I wanted a Ramones fix. I'd guess that after it was announced people streamed it and binned it.
Seems like the exact type of scenario they created the community updates page for ("in an effort to be as transparent as possible with our community"). Yet, five days later and no update...
www.vinylmeplease.com
At this point, my recommendation to them would be don’t offer up swaps on the current rotm. Put a hard cap on add ons. Should solve the problem and allow them to grow sustainably. You could keep rotm in the swaps for the next two month. Release to the member ship for two months at like the 3 month sub price (whatever a rotm breaks down to) then make them full price Moving forward. I would imagine this would result in A lot less saving shit for a sale etc.
And “numbered” means every record is numbered 666
it feels like they could also just stagger the swap dates - have people already subscribed for the next month commit to keeping or swap between a window and then you're locked in (ie 10 days out til 5 days out). you then know your capacity to 1) allow new signups for the upcoming month and 2) swaps and allow those to follow (5 days out to 1 day out). Once that capacity is gone (minus your overhead for replacements), close the signup for that track. they'd both know their shipping numbers for the next month, not piss people off by overselling, and also probably run with less stock.