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

Jan said:
I just don't think it's a very successful model for a Club. If they want to do it well this kind of curation is very time-intensive so you need lots of man-power or at some point an ai to do that. If you than choose individual albums you have low margins on every Album and no fancy exclusives but end up with albums that you could get cheaper elsewhere. And that's assuming they hit you with the right albums at a high percentage.
But at least in my personal experience I listen to lot of albums recommended here, in music journals etc with "for fans of" tags and very often albums that should be completely in my wheelhouse are not the ones i like. But curation most often works for me when I follow recommendations from people whose taste I trust for instance here or in magazines or vmp when it's from a genre, artist etc. That is underrepresented in my discogs, where I don't know much about. The greatest vmp discoveries I got were jazz, soul, blues, Latin, African albums because I simply did not know too much of the genres
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That model would fail. Actually, it could never get off the ground.

Algorithm based personal curation is what Amazon tries to do. Badly.

It is the opposite of scale. Cost per title would go through the roof. And there is no way people would like every selection. Unless they banned swaps, it can't work, and if they banned swaps, few would subscribe.

My Discogs is yesterday. Not necessarily what I want more of tomorrow.
 
MikeH said:
Sleigh bells is very expensive and long OOP at least
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I have a copy. I’m good. I wouldn’t say it’s “long out of print” I know the Discogs page say 2011 or something but it’s been repressed since. I didn’t pick up my copy until 2017…
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And that was after a long run where it had been out of print and the prices on Discogs had climb pretty high. I think it’s become hard to find again but my guess is VMP weren’t doing a repress Mom+Pop woulda been doing another run soon regardless.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I have a copy. I’m good. I wouldn’t say it’s “long out of print” I know the Discogs page say 2011 or something but it’s been repressed since. I didn’t pick up my copy until 2017…
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And that was after a long run where it had been out of print and the prices on Discogs had climb pretty high. I think become hard to find again but my guess is VMP weren’t doing a repress Mom+Pop would be doing another one soon regardless.
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that's coming upon 8 years ago though, which is kinda a life time for vinyl being OOP. i haven't obsessively checked this one, but have looked on and off the past 2-3 years since my sister in law got a record player and wanted it and haven't seen it anywhere outside of higher priced used on ebay/discogs.
 
MikeH said:
that's coming upon 8 years ago though, which is kinda a life time for vinyl being OOP. i haven't obsessively checked this one, but have looked on and off the past 2-3 years since my sister in law got a record player and wanted it and haven't seen it anywhere outside of higher priced used on ebay/discogs.
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Yeah, It needs a repress and It’s a good record. It’s just not like Demon Days or Songs For The Deaf.

My guess is this is gonna be the way they subsist for the time being. Repressing OOP stuff from indie labels with a few months lead time before labels put out cheaper wide release pressings of their own. I bet by the end of the year we’ll be able to order Psychic Chasm, Tender Buttons, and Treats via Amazon for like $26 a pop.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, It needs a repress and It’s a good record. It’s just not like Demon Days or Songs For The Deaf.

My guess is this is gonna be the way they subsist for the time being. Repressing OOP stuff from indie labels with a few months lead time before labels put out cheaper wide release pressings of their own. I bet by the end of the year we’ll be able to order Psychic Chasm, Tender Buttons, and Treats via Amazon for like $26 a pop.
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well you can already order Tender Buttons for around $20 shipped, it's just the old cut which people have said sounds great.

I'll definitely be interested to see if the Neon Indian is the same cut as the wide release in a few months...not saying that a VMP is worth a $40 price increase at all...but if the wide release stinks and the VMP is great sounding for $40 (monthly price of a 3 month sub with the JOINTHECLUB20 code)...then I'd get the VMP if it's an album I like a lot.
 
MikeH said:
well you can already order Tender Buttons for around $20 shipped, it's just the old cut which people have said sounds great.

I'll definitely be interested to see if the Neon Indian is the same cut as the wide release in a few months...not saying that a VMP is worth a $40 price increase at all...but if the wide release stinks and the VMP is great sounding for $40 (monthly price of a 3 month sub with the JOINTHECLUB20 code)...then I'd get the VMP if it's an album I like a lot.
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Yeah, I am not opposed to this approach overall. I always support grabbing the best sounding version of a record you love.

It’s just tougher to justify going in blind given their recent releases (fairly mediocre) combined with the knowledge that a comparable release for half the price and none of the risk is likely right around the corner.
 
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