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

I’m happy that they are being proactive about it and that they are creating a space that is free of VMP (to the extent that it can be). There are some decent folk over there but the VMP stuff on both sides (cheers and jeers) is exhausting. Good luck to them.
 
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MikeH said:
I made my own box with the help of people here. It wasn’t hard to find Europe 72. I didn’t do the entire box title for title. Spent something like $200 less and got the whole day of the dead box as well.
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When it got announced, Reckoning and WAN didn’t have a repress, and were fetching $75 and $200+ for original respectively. Coupled with Europe 72 being $50 or so for the recent reissues, it wasn’t a big difference.

Now you can outsource the whole box, with clean OGs or AAA reissues, for like $250 on the high end. Those boxes should be around for a while.
 
Selaws said:
its kind of crazy that any company that focuses on record curation would partner with Croxley.

Imagine being in the hobby and coming across VMP for the first time and seeing that.
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It’s bananas from a company that just kicked 15% of its customers out wholesale and had its ceo talk about exclusivity after a price hike.

I still entered. Would be a great first table for when the 3 yo is ready.
 
bdm105 said:
Why the gate keeping? Marketing is marketing and people new to the hobby buy more than people who've been in it for years
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Don't see it as gatekeeping, just calling out a notable pivot for a company that tried to position themselves as an audiophile club. They have clearly lost customers and are trying to bring some new folks in. It's yet another in a long line of red flags in my opinion.
 
bdm105 said:
Maybe I missed the memo that it's an audiophile club now
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I think the term is "cryptophile club" i.e. you pay for something expecting something in return, but it turns out to be imaginary and never arrives, leaving you holding the (empty virtual) bag while someone else builds something with your cash. However, due to marketing, it's positioned as "fun" and "trendy".
 
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