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

Space Wanderer said:
I've only been able to skim the last 10 pages or so - do we think they had a real drop planned for today and had to scrub it at the last minute, so they put up a few spare copies of Tidal instead?

It's times like these I bet the VMP staff really misses the old forum.
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Oh yeah, I bet there's definitely been a slap on the back followed by a hearty, "Hey, at least those forum bloodsuckers aren't pissing in our own backyard right now!"
 
I've been out of the forum loop for a minute so feel free to RSR me if it's somewhere in the last 20 pages, but: has anyone else theorized yet that VMP has been sitting on some more Fiona exclusives for a while, but her team asked VMP to not put them up for sale until Fiona announces a new album? It's well known that Fiona Apple takes years to complete an album, so maybe that's the reason the answer to whether or not the exclusives will exist has always been "soon, hopefully, maybe", because VMP and Fiona's label have no idea when the album will actually be done and ready for announcement?
 
Space Wanderer said:
I've only been able to skim the last 10 pages or so - do we think they had a real drop planned for today and had to scrub it at the last minute, so they put up a few spare copies of Tidal instead?

It's times like these I bet the VMP staff really misses the old forum.
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They teased a “drop” and then gave us a re-press of Tidal at a significantly increased price. They actually sent out an email saying “get it now for 15% off” but even with that “discount” it’s still higher than any previous price.

To add to the chaos, they left a metadata description on their latest article about Fiona announcing 1500 copies of When The Pawn coming next week. Storf quickly shot this down on Reddit and said it was a mistake and then tried to be ambiguous by saying “IF we still do that...”

All in all, big tease all around, but at least a few more people can get Tidal now.
 
mdmost said:
Didn't you sign back up for what you thought was Fiona today? If so, seems you fell for the FOMO too.
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No, absolutely not, I don’t know where you invented that from but it’s fundamentally untrue. In fact I’ve told Nathan several times today that I may or may not get Fiona, depends on my mood, I’m a bit ambivalent.

I signed up again about 6 weeks ago because I wanted to swap first month and get QOTSA and Aretha.
 
I bet Fiona is going to do a version of the album through her own website and VMP gets some kind of side deal. Maybe a coloured exclusive or some sort of alt artwork. They're trying to sell this a bit too hard if it's it's something that limited.

Think about it. You don't really need to fomo this album so bad if you're the only ones doing it. Just like QOTSA they felt the insecurity that a lot of people wouldn't subscribe if they knew a wide press would be available.
 
mdmost said:
I mean When The Pawn is going to be released. The link for the article on the album has linear notes as part of the URL.

Learning To Embrace The Crazy
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Could be they had this essay from "forever ago," realized Pawn wasn't happening, and threw it up on the site since it was already paid for. Either way, what a hilarious debacle. Par for the course I guess.
 
uvwxVinyl said:
I bet Fiona is going to do a version of the album through her own website and VMP gets some kind of side deal. Maybe a coloured exclusive or some sort of alt artwork. They're trying to sell this a bit too hard if it's it's something that limited.

Think about it. You don't really need to fomo this album so bad if you're the only ones doing it. Just like QOTSA they felt the insecurity that a lot of people wouldn't subscribe if they knew a wide press would be available.
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Does she even have a website? The only thing I can find is a link to a defunct Facebook page. Maybe she's about to go live with one?
 
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