Oh I think the swap exclusive thing is better for members so that’s interesting you feel that way. I’d rather have these exclusives go to members than the general public and flippers able to grab them. I was about to cancel this month because there wasn’t anything in swaps left that I was interested in last month. I ended up grabbing three albums instead...
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Ah. Gotcha. For me, it's almost better...because I only pay $23 for those swaps now instead of the full member pricing they have added. The add-on tracks are monthly and can be cancelled every time. I could see it being annoying if you want to keep all 3 tracks this month, but for me it was a no-brainer to add the tracks and swap since I didn't want any of the ROTMs this time around and three items were available for swapping that I have been looking for.
I tried this. Just the difference in sound quality between YouTube and this phone system is staggering. The phone is butchering the audio, which I'd kind of expect.Vinyl Me Please Essentials
So what’s a 1970 birth date make me? You guys are quicker than googlewww.needlesandgrooves.com
you can listen to 7 of the songs in horrible quality and they all make me not want to listen to it
They set up an automatic answering type service and made it sound like an old phone service. It's not meant to sound crystal clear. It's just a silly gimmick. I know some people who set up one of these for fun awhile back called Call and Oates and you could dial-in and hit 1 for Rich Girl, 2 for I Can't Go For That, etc. To each their own, but it does seem a bit unfair to judge the album as a whole based on a marketing campaign and sound quality of something that's not meant to sound good.
I mean, he was clearly talking about VMP, but sure.
The problem is we only have 2 singles. One ok and one great so I'm using the marketing to judge if I would really want to use this or swap for blazing Arrow and save 23 bucks. And the horrible sound of the phone machine made it impossible to imagine what the songs sound like or sound pretty bad and completely different. So I decided to just swap
Fair enough. But that's the issue with preordering any new album anyway right? You don't know what all the songs sound like. And to be fair, it's why I almost never get the ROTM when it's a new album unless I really love everything the artist has done...It's a weird marketing ploy but I thought it's a bit fun and out of the ordinary.
Maybe I would have preferred it if it was like say slowthai or ivy soul or even masseduction in which it was already on Spotify so we could see if we actually liked it first
It’s cool they are giving her more exposure. But also not shocking that people don’t seem to be super amped about it. I’m not the biggest fan in general of new releases as ROTM unless it’s an artist I really love. I’ll take a listen and don’t doubt this will be in swaps next month if I really want it.
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