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

It’s amazing how long people wait. and how many problems have to be over come just to get your Vinyl ! Anyone buying records in the 1970s/80s etc etc. would think us mad.

I popped into my local today and could have picked up numerous VMP tracks / exclusives cheaper and all it took was a slight deviation on my usual route thru City ctr.
And i’m starting my Cutback now (oops). Just needed that Nick Cave Ghosteen (needed).
 
ByersVinyl said:
It’s amazing how long people wait. and how many problems have to be over come just to get your Vinyl ! Anyone buying records in the 1970s/80s etc etc. would think us mad.

I popped into my local today and could have picked up numerous VMP tracks / exclusives cheaper and all it took was a slight deviation on my usual route thru City ctr.
And i’m starting my Cutback now (oops). Just needed that Nick Cave Ghosteen (needed).
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I'm going to have to break my diet a bit to get Ghosteen, just waiting on a good price. Hovering at $30, but I need a deal.
 
ByersVinyl said:
It’s amazing how long people wait. and how many problems have to be over come just to get your Vinyl ! Anyone buying records in the 1970s/80s etc etc. would think us mad.

I popped into my local today and could have picked up numerous VMP tracks / exclusives cheaper and all it took was a slight deviation on my usual route thru City ctr.
And i’m starting my Cutback now (oops). Just needed that Nick Cave Ghosteen (needed).
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The internet has definitively made us lazier as consumers. I was talking to my girlfriend about this the other night. I work in central london and commute here every day (plus most weekends). Im a 15 min tube journey (or even just a 45min walk) from a cluster of the best record shops in the country, yet its just easier for me to open up a website and place an order for it to be delivered.

Its such a bad routine to fall in, and it doesn't help that the records online are regularly cheaper than in store.
 
They have to be so in over their heads right now. All the shipping and platform problems. Not to mention their editorial is god damn awful right now. They have an entire sub for “ESSENTIAL” records and their “Why We Chose This” columns are fucking embarrassing.
Storf literally says in the first line of the Dirty Projectors interview “that we picked this record because it’s a great record”. No shit man. It’s all so lazy and half assed.
 
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You do have to wonder how much longer these issues can continue without hampering their ability to operate, financially speaking.

They're still having orders go out with 11+ extras (see the Caribou post on reddit), people getting albums they didn't order at all, people having their orders shipped to the wrong state or old address, albums going on together but packaged separately, etc etc etc. There's a real and tangible cost to all of these fuck ups (and they're all 100% on VMP, not on their 3rd parties like Saddle Creek or Shopify) so it isn't like they have recourse to recoup the lost cash. They need to get their system fully working or they're going to bleed out
 
Btsvinylfarm said:
You do have to wonder how much longer these issues can continue without hampering their ability to operate, financially speaking.

They're still having orders go out with 11+ extras (see the Caribou post on reddit), people getting albums they didn't order at all, people having their orders shipped to the wrong state or old address, albums going on together but packaged separately, etc etc etc. There's a real and tangible cost to all of these fuck ups (and they're all 100% on VMP, not on their 3rd parties like Saddle Creek or Shopify) so it isn't like they have recourse to recoup the lost cash. They need to get their system fully working or they're going to bleed out
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you left one part out...they need to address their customer base...LIKE ADULTS! I am okay with a mass email, but the whole send us good vibes BS is so f'ing childish. They might as well add the word "bro'" after that line. The reason I email them daily is the lack of any effort to VERBALLY respond to any/all customers about this issue.
 
radiodead said:
They have to be so in over their heads right now. All the shipping and platform problems. Not to mention their editorial is god damn awful right now. They have an entire sub for “ESSENTIAL” records and their “Why We Chose This” columns are fucking embarrassing.
Storf literally says in the first line of the Dirty Projectors interview “that we picked this record because it’s a great record”. No shit man. It’s all so lazy and half assed.
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Oof, you are right. The entire first paragraph should not exist:

We picked this because it’s a really great album — as with all our Essentials picks, we try to pick very great albums — and 2009 was a really special year for indie rock. It felt like this year where it really felt like indie rock was gonna overtake whatever mainstream rock was in 2009, which was still like Linkin Park and Creed, or whatever. It felt like this brief year where the biggest rock records of the year were by these weird bands from Brooklyn: Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix — which we did as Essentials earlier in 2019. We had the opportunity to do this Dirty Projectors record for the 10th anniversary; we’re announcing it in 2019, but it’ll actually come out in 2020.
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andyf said:
Oof, you are right. The entire first paragraph should not exist:
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It doesn’t even get better from there. I think Penn says something stupid and then Storf has another small dumb blurb. Nothing actually about the record or what makes it great. They claim they pick records because they want to tell new stories about old great records.......but they quite literally have nothing to say here.
 
So they are a nightmare right now but do you think they are selling company off and having to meet demands of buyer by certain time ?
Dissolve online forum. Switch online platform.
None of what they have done and in the timing they have done has made any logical sense.
Working on time frames is the only decent explanation that fits. Not saying it’s true but either way they have not thought things through and have been handling things poorly.
 
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