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

DevonJD said:
I think losing access to the interscope archives really hurt them more than they will admit publicly
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How much Interscope stuff did they do? I’m unaware.

I think all these labels creating their own series and subscriptions has hurt them. Only
Really rhino and craft out of the big labels will license to them. They are thing to branch out now to get labels like Warp and Nonesuch as releases. There’s nothing proprietary about VMP and labels kinda have them over the barrel in negotiations because they know VMP needs titles and they need them approved to hit monthly deadlines
 
MikeH said:
How much Interscope stuff did they do? I’m unaware.

I think all these labels creating their own series and subscriptions has hurt them. Only
Really rhino and craft out of the big labels will license to them. They are thing to branch out now to get labels like Warp and Nonesuch as releases. There’s nothing proprietary about VMP and labels kinda have them over the barrel in negotiations because they know VMP needs titles and they need them approved to hit monthly deadlines
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Nonesuch isn’t really branching out, just a subsidiary of Warner like Rhino.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Nonesuch isn’t really branching out, just a subsidiary of Warner like Rhino.
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True. I just mean they are trying to license from labels or subsidiaries that are less well known because many heavy hitters are being done by those labels now. It's kinda interesting that VMP supposedly has been trying to get Southern Nights by Allen Toussaint done for a year or two now and Rhino just decided to do their own AAA cut of it. Feels like this is just gonna happen more and more.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Do we know what January is looking like? I wanna know if there is anything to be excited about or plan on swapping for my last month and the credits I have.
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I think broadcast tender buttons is essentials? Cool album, but think there’s a wide release that has good reviews for what I imagine is 1/3 of the price of a VMP one month. Classics is Katie Webster - swamp boogie queen. RHH is Brother Ali - Shadows of the Sun
 
MikeH said:
yea that's kinda my plan. once enough ROTMs pile up that i want (or a sale happens) i'll hop back in for a month and burn the rest of my credit.
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So I did this once before. You can sign up for a single month duirng swaps, place the order you want and get free shipping (and the member discount), and then cancel your membership before swaps close. I wasn't trying to be devious, just changed my mind about the ROTM and discovered you could do that . . . unless they've discovered the loophole and closed it up. But I did this last back in September or something, so I'm guessing it still works.
 
grendel627 said:
So I did this once before. You can sign up for a single month duirng swaps, place the order you want and get free shipping (and the member discount), and then cancel your membership before swaps close. I wasn't trying to be devious, just changed my mind about the ROTM and discovered you could do that . . . unless they've discovered the loophole and closed it up. But I did this last back in September or something, so I'm guessing it still works.
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They have a ginormous board (compared to staff size) and after the debacle with the plant, you would think one of them would want to go through the financials with a fine tooth comb or hire someone to do it.
 
It's difficult to put yourself out there as a curator for subscribers when VMP's only available options are limited by record labels not wanting to lease items. They're curating from a small library.

"We'd recommend this '92 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon. However, due to "logistics", we instead are recommending this '22 Boones Farm Strawberry Hill, at the same price. You"ll receive it in 6 months despite it's parallel availability at your local 7-11. Skol!"
P.s. Here's a candle, plastic wine cup and balsa wood wine rack to add to your experience.
 
Biscuit said:
It's difficult to put yourself out there as a curator for subscribers when VMP's only available options are limited by record labels not wanting to lease items. They're curating from a small library.

"We'd recommend this '92 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon. However, due to "logistics", we instead are recommending this '22 Boones Farm Strawberry Hill, at the same price. You"ll receive it in 6 months despite it's parallel availability at your local 7-11. Skol!"
P.s. Here's a candle, plastic wine cup and balsa wood wine rack to add to your experience.
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Yeah, At a certain point if you can no longer offer the promised curated experience that you had previously, then it’s time to either hang it up or change expectations (and prices to match).
 
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A long out-of-print soul-funk jammer, Harold Wheeler Consort's lone LP has been sampled like crazy, and was too groove-oriented to make much of an impact on the charts. The group faded into obscurity, but not for long, as its breaks formed many, many beats over the years. Strictly limited to 150...
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