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

Rowan said:
What swung it for me was when I was streaming them all to see how much I still wanted them and how much I would play them… only to realise at that moment that I actually have access to listen to them whenever I want anyway so don’t need to run the risk of VMP going down the toilet snd taking my cash/ credit with them. Didn’t get a discount and aside from Troussant and Mishima they’d only get a passing spin here and there. So now in addition to my cash refund I’ve $130 of VMP bucks to piss up the wall on the slop they hold back for us Gaijin.
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yea--i cancelled Fela for a similar reason. i have so many fela records and it was a comp in which i already owned most of the tracks on vinyl. plus i've been buying some of the barclays reissues and they sound awesome.
 
Joe Mac said:
I raise you Pussy Cats.
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ehhhhh, i understand your point, and i personally do not enjoy nilsson (and did not get any of them), so the whole ordeal was wasted on me, but there's an argument that there is an audience for those albums and there were no real good/great ones. Gus Cannon....less so; that is an oddity of no-one-has-the-rights-because-of-reasons and that made it scarce and that made it expensive and THAT made it desirable. outside of the limited scope of outsider and old-timer country fans, interest in the music itself was kinda .... not there? I'm glad he got the record out -- it exists and it wouldn't otherwise -- but as a business decision, it's not the choice i would have made. of course with the timelines and schedules they had to keep, those choices were set months before they actually happened. those long lead-times for releases definitely hurt them a lot.
 
yukbon said:
ehhhhh, i understand your point, and i personally do not enjoy nilsson (and did not get any of them), so the whole ordeal was wasted on me, but there's an argument that there is an audience for those albums and there were no real good/great ones. Gus Cannon....less so; that is an oddity of no-one-has-the-rights-because-of-reasons and that made it scarce and that made it expensive and THAT made it desirable. outside of the limited scope of outsider and old-timer country fans, interest in the music itself was kinda .... not there? I'm glad he got the record out -- it exists and it wouldn't otherwise -- but as a business decision, it's not the choice i would have made. of course with the timelines and schedules they had to keep, those choices were set months before they actually happened. those long lead-times for releases definitely hurt them a lot.
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Oh no I like Nilsson. I actually like Nilsson quite a lot. That’s just a shocking choice. It’s giving people a really bad album because it’s an entertaining story rather than just letting someone like Netflix do a doc on how mental the making of this awful album was!

A lot of the curation, even before the label woes of the last few years, was just a big bit odd, which happens when there is primarily one dominant voice.
 
yukbon said:
ehhhhh, i understand your point, and i personally do not enjoy nilsson (and did not get any of them), so the whole ordeal was wasted on me, but there's an argument that there is an audience for those albums and there were no real good/great ones. Gus Cannon....less so; that is an oddity of no-one-has-the-rights-because-of-reasons and that made it scarce and that made it expensive and THAT made it desirable. outside of the limited scope of outsider and old-timer country fans, interest in the music itself was kinda .... not there? I'm glad he got the record out -- it exists and it wouldn't otherwise -- but as a business decision, it's not the choice i would have made. of course with the timelines and schedules they had to keep, those choices were set months before they actually happened. those long lead-times for releases definitely hurt them a lot.
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aside from the plant fiasco, the worst thing that VMP/Cam did was the constant 40% off sales to fund the plant. it made nobody want to pay full price ever. then the delays on everything due to the plant fiasco really fucked them. and then changing CS to save money also burned them IMO. CS was always reliable to get quick and easy resolutions to stuff in the past. now it's a bit of a pain and you get responses that don't make sense from AI, or the CS agents don't know how to handle certain situations.
 
Anyone know anything about a Discogs store MediumRareLA? They have a ton of VMP test pressings for sale, some recent (like Impulse box loosies). Seems odd—those never have been for sale until the recent deal, right? Other than the thing a few years ago where they sent them out for some mistake.

They also have Sinatra at the Sands, so there’s at least one less of those in the pool for those bundles.
 
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ntaos said:
Anyone know anything about a Discogs store MediumRareLA? They have a ton of VMP test pressings for sale, some recent (like Impulse box loosies). Seems odd—those never have been for sale until the recent deal, right?
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it's thought that someone who works at RTI sells them test pressings. Storf/Pauly were asked about it recently--that place was selling test pressings for Impulse before the Impulse anthology was even out. They said they were trying to figure out who was selling them, but they also assumed it is someone at RTI. Given that they also sell other test pressings that are from RTI and not VMP, that would make sense to me.
 
MikeH said:
it's thought that someone who works at RTI sells them test pressings. Storf/Pauly were asked about it recently--that place was selling test pressings for Impulse before the Impulse anthology was even out. They said they were trying to figure out who was selling them, but they also assumed it is someone at RTI. Given that they also sell other test pressings that are from RTI and not VMP, that would make sense to me.
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Oh that makes a ton of sense. Thanks for the info!
 
Joe Mac said:
Oh no I like Nilsson. I actually like Nilsson quite a lot. That’s just a shocking choice. It’s giving people a really bad album because it’s an entertaining story rather than just letting someone like Netflix do a doc on how mental the making of this awful album was!
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A decision made even more mental by Aerial Ballet, Nilsson Sings Newman and Schmillson all being store exclusives. They had the access but clearly didn’t have the readies to do a deal that wasn’t a stinker.

Pussycats at 500/ 1000 copies in the store would still be sitting there now. Nilsson Schmilsson as an essentials pick would have been bang on the money
 
MikeH said:
aside from the plant fiasco, the worst thing that VMP/Cam did was the constant 40% off sales to fund the plant. it made nobody want to pay full price ever. then the delays on everything due to the plant fiasco really fucked them.
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This devaluing of their product argument is as old as the company. People have long yelled at the sky about shit being a lot cheaper later on and many a person has said fuck it and waited till something was in a sale instead paying full price.
 
Rowan said:
A decision made even more mental by Aerial Ballet, Nilsson Sings Newman and Schmillson all being store exclusives. They had the access but clearly didn’t have the readies to do a deal that wasn’t a stinker.

Pussycats at 500/ 1000 copies in the store would still be sitting there now. Nilsson Schmilsson as an essentials pick would have been bang on the money
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Newman fell through, something about the mastering. Schmillson was the most logical for ROTM but has been repressed a bunch with several audiophile versions out there. I get the decision to make that one a scale. Ballet could have used the exposure and is a solid album. I’d probably have bought a scale if Pussycats. It was something I almost bought or swapped for several times. But in the end it would have been just a curio, because it sucks.
 
Nee Lewman said:
This devaluing of their product argument is as old as the company. People have long yelled at the sky about shit being a lot cheaper later on and many a person has said fuck it and waited till something was in a sale instead paying full price.
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it was MUCH more noticeable especially on the discord. even the people who bought everything VMP ever pressed and never complained about the product started just saying they would wait on a sale for every title. there was a lot of "new blood" during the pandemic that weren't as jaded as many others here about the company and price. and all that "brand loyalty" went out the window. stuff like Dolly releases being available in sale also didn't help...
 
Twentytwo said:
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Recently, a group of VMP staffers spent three days in our two storage lockers in Denver, and found a veritable treasure trove of old records. Some of these records had pricing stickers from pop-up events, some of them had dinged corners, and some of them were missing plastic wrap. Instead of...
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"Recently, a group of VMP staffers spent three days in our two storage lockers in Denver"

God, it sounds like they were waterboarding the staff to force them to give up their bank account info
 
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