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

Swaps just closed for me, it seems. I went back and forth on Angel Olsen's All Mirrors and Isley Brothers' Go For Your Guns and ended up picking Angel Olsen, after thinking about my record purchasing philosophy. I also selected Ready to Die early as an add-on which I have NO intention of keeping long-term.

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I listen to a podcast called Switched on Pop. It's about.... pop. I just listened to this episode about Summer Songs. Estelle called in to provide her list. The 4 songs she shared were: The Slits - I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Missy Elliott - Slide, Cataracts by Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and some other song by Donald Byrd.

Anyone see the connection?

I think Estelle may be a VMP customer.

Here's the episode in case anyone is interested. She doesn't call in until probably around the 40 min mark.

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Songs of Summer Call-in Special

Episode · Switched on Pop · Every year, critics and media outlets the world over put out definitive song-of-summer guides based on... well, we’re not always entirely sure. Certainly popularity, as measured by streams and radio play; not to mention that bewildering feeling that creeps up some...
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scotthilk said:
I went and scored a black copy of Caribou's 'Swim' for $18 shipped on Discogs. Don't need the variant but def. need the album!
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I might need to do that as well at some point, I do really like the album. Unfortunately, now I need to pay my student loan so might have to wait a paycheck or two 😅.

Also, my swaps have also closed, and I had a Stars replacement in my orders at one point but now it's gone. I guess because they gave me a refund already?
 
I get so confused by who determines the pressing quantities. The Caribou album is great, don’t get me wrong. By the style of music is definitely more difficult to crack than say Spoon, a classic indie rock band and arguably their most well known record (and most accessible imo). 1000 for Caribou and 500 for Spoon, seems backwards.

Reminds we of when they only pressed 500 Broken Social Scene (YFIIP, maybe one of the 5-10 most important indie rock records ever, sold out in like 6 hours) and 1000 Stars (SYoF, a great record in its own right, but still).


However, 1000 Caribou at $34 basically guarantees it for swaps at some point (I would imagine), which would be great.
 
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radiodead said:
I get so confused by who determines the pressing quantities. The Caribou album is great, don’t get me wrong. By the style of music is definitely more difficult to crack than say Spoon, a classic indie rock band and arguably their most well known record (and most accessible imo). 1000 for Caribou and 500 for Spoon, seems backwards.

Reminds we of when they only pressed 500 Broken Social Scene (YFIIP, maybe one of the 5-10 most important indie rock records ever, sold out in like 6 hours) and 1000 Stars (SYoF, a great record in its own right, but still).


However, 1000 Caribou at $34 basically guarantees it for swaps at some point (I would imagine), which would be great.
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Yeah if spoon doesn’t make it to swaps then I’ll swap for caribou potentially, I’m between swapping for kingfish, swim, or spoon if it’s in swaps
 
Caribou is the first VMP exclusive I've bought in a.... it's been so long I can't remember. I have the standard black vinyl and it sounds really, really good. Very stoked to see what RTI can do with it. Anyone on the fence, please jump off and buy it - as others have said, it no doubt should've been an "Essentials" pick.
 
radiodead said:
I get so confused by who determines the pressing quantities. The Caribou album is great, don’t get me wrong. By the style of music is definitely more difficult to crack than say Spoon, a classic indie rock band and arguably their most well known record (and most accessible imo). 1000 for Caribou and 500 for Spoon, seems backwards.

Reminds we of when they only pressed 500 Broken Social Scene (YFIIP, maybe one of the 5-10 most important indie rock records ever, sold out in like 6 hours) and 1000 Stars (SYoF, a great record in its own right, but still).


However, 1000 Caribou at $34 basically guarantees it for swaps at some point (I would imagine), which would be great.
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Yeah, Caribou should make it to swaps because of that price tag! I’m happy they’ve pressed 1,000 copies so then a lot of people get to enjoy this intoxicating, luxurious, labaratory-like album 👌

Also, I imagine Caribou’s “Swim” selling more copies than Spoon’s “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”, just because I think VMP’s audience would listen to more Caribou kinda music than Spoon kinda music.

So hyped to get this Caribou exclusive and spin it and become immersed in its trippy world! 😜
 
Here are my quick thoughts on the 3 new exclusives that dropped this week! 🧐

I like Spoon’s “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” and Caribou’s “Swim”, but just don’t care for the Wild Flag self-titled album. I love the energy and vibes from Sleater-Kinney’s “The Woods”. Wild Flag’s debut might sound more fun and optimistic, but it doesn’t have that same wild energy and old-school bombastic sound like The Woods has.

Overall, I’m very happy with the drops this week as the two I’m interested in also look great and seem to be getting high-quality pressings too! 😁

I’m still waiting for that JPEGMAFIA VMP exclusive though! 🤞
 
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