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

Ethos99 said:
I'm just gonna leave this here. Re: vinyl production costs.

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Hot Wax: When Does It Make Sense For a Band To Press Vinyl Records?

We often hear artists talk about pressing their latest projects to vinyl. It's no myth that pressing vinyl records is expensive, especially when compared to the (essentially) free digital distribution possibilities that the internet provides. We decided to break down vinyl costs to get a better...
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Interesting article. With those cost numbers and what VMP charges, there is no way they aren't making a nice profit per run (depending on licensing costs, since this doesn't seem to cover that and I'm sure it's a big part of the overall cost)
 
I've cancelled now for the second time in a row after my subscription ended, was pissed off when Hands was the Classics ROTM then rejoined for Aretha. Cancelled again after my sub was done. This is just too much of a shit show and stressing me out. I hope I'm done with VMP but it's likely I may do just Classics and only the ones I like if (and that's a big if) I come back.
For now, I'll likely put my money towards BN Tone Poets (and BN80), Soul Step and Colemine (that release map for the year is fire)
 
Just out of curiosity, are the past month's ROTMs usually available for Swaps in the following month? I was so busy trying to seal my Swap that I didn't have a look if the Stooges for instance were available as a swap. I rejoined because I wanted Stevie, but swapped for Caroline Polachek and chose Stevie as an Add-On. But since I'm on a 3-month-term, I could simply swap for it next month or July. I don't need De Stijl and I was honestly a bit disappointed with the Swap menu aside from the Swap Exclusives and I'm not sure I can go through this mess again next month.

The Essentials Track rarely sells out unless it's a massive smash, and I'm quite sure Stevie stays around for a while, maybe even forever. It's probably more the question whether I'm willing to wait until June or July while saving some cash for another record I actually want instead of going for a VMP-filler I'm lukewarm with.
 
parnell17 said:
Just out of curiosity, are the past month's ROTMs usually available for Swaps in the following month? I was so busy trying to seal my Swap that I didn't have a look if the Stooges for instance were available as a swap. I really want this Stevie Nicks record, but I'm on a 3-month-term I think instead of buying it as an Add-On, I could simply swap for it next month. I don't need De Stijl and I was honestly a bit disappointed with the Swap menu aside from the Swap Exclusives and I'm not sure I can go through this mess again next month.

The Essentials Track rarely sells out unless it's a massive smash, and I'm quite sure Stevie stays around for a while, maybe even forever.
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It’s up if it hasn’t sold out. It seems that after a certain date, VMP marks tracks sold out to hype up FOMO. Stooges was “sold out” last month then was back in stock and was available for swaps later last night. I think you should be able to pick up Stevie as a swap next month. If you don’t see it and it’s still in stock in the store, CS should be able to manually swap it for you.
 
parnell17 said:
Just out of curiosity, are the past month's ROTMs usually available for Swaps in the following month? I was so busy trying to seal my Swap that I didn't have a look if the Stooges for instance were available as a swap. I rejoined because I wanted Stevie, but swapped for Caroline Polachek and chose Stevie as an Add-On. But since I'm on a 3-month-term, I could simply swap for it next month or July. I don't need De Stijl and I was honestly a bit disappointed with the Swap menu aside from the Swap Exclusives and I'm not sure I can go through this mess again next month.

The Essentials Track rarely sells out unless it's a massive smash, and I'm quite sure Stevie stays around for a while, maybe even forever. It's probably more the question whether I'm willing to wait until June or July while saving some cash for another record I actually want instead of going for a VMP-filler I'm lukewarm with.
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Stooges is still in the swap options for me ..
 
Jonathan Y said:
So my ass was stuck on the couch last night doing my normal evening activities when I realized I forgot about swaps!!! So I checked in, quickly, and finally I may add, I grabbed Lil Kim for my Essentials swap. Luckily no issues, cuz I arrived after the crash I suppose?
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I think so. I've just checked what's still available for swapping and Lil Kim is still available. It seems there's not that much demand for this record. I've bought it too though a short time ago with the coupon, I think it's a great record.
 
Bluecloud777 said:
I think so. I've just checked what's still available for swapping and Lil Kim is still available. It seems there's not that much demand for this record. I've bought it too though a short time ago with the coupon, I think it's a great record.
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Yea for sure the first skit can be much, but the album slaps and the Jay Z, Biggie, Diddy, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Cease features add to the fire!
 
Jonathan Y said:
So my ass was stuck on the couch last night doing my normal evening activities when I realized I forgot about swaps!!! So I checked in, quickly, and finally I may add, I grabbed Lil Kim for my Essentials swap. Luckily no issues, cuz I arrived after the crash I suppose?
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Swaps eventually went back up but every “swap exclusive” was gone and any other records I wanted were also gone as it was really slim pickings. Glad you got something you like though!
 
Ethos99 said:
I'm just gonna leave this here. Re: vinyl production costs.

mojitomastering.com

Hot Wax: When Does It Make Sense For a Band To Press Vinyl Records?

We often hear artists talk about pressing their latest projects to vinyl. It's no myth that pressing vinyl records is expensive, especially when compared to the (essentially) free digital distribution possibilities that the internet provides. We decided to break down vinyl costs to get a better...
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And this isn’t even taking into account pricing at much larger quantities so the raw cost of pressing for them must be pretty low. VMP has many other costs though on top of what this article said. They have staff, mastering costs, licensing costs, marketing, etc. They must still be making a pretty penny but if their logistics were in order I don’t doubt they could vastly improve their net profits, especially with how much they charge.
 
MikeH said:
And this isn’t even taking into account pricing at much larger quantities so the raw cost of pressing for them must be pretty low. VMP has many other costs though on top of what this article said. They have staff, mastering costs, licensing costs, marketing, etc. They must still be making a pretty penny but if their logistics were in order I don’t doubt they could vastly improve their net profits, especially with how much they charge.
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Which is my point. They are charging $22-34 for single discs and probably, at worst, spending 10-12 on each one.

And for the ROTM quantities they are probably spending much less than that and getting a discount on the 100-1000 run exclusives.

They are wasting their own profit but i doubt losing money at this point.
 
MikeH said:
The Caribou click has sadly been a widespread issue. Some members seem to have gotten 3 or 3 pressings before getting a good one. It sucks because the pressing sounds SO good.
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It really does. It’s pretty minor but still annoying on top of being on one of my favorite tracks.

my first Idler Wheel had popping into Every Single Night and the rest of the pressing was great. But can’t have that. Got a replacement, thankfully that ones perfect.
 
parnell17 said:
IMO the colour scheme of Phoebe Bridgers VMP-variant was one of the best they had in quite some time; it seemed super unique after a few bland choices lately. Seems like I wasn't the only one who got inspired, the Secretly Store Exclusive of Khruangbin looks nearly the same.


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I ordered Secretly's Khru & VMP's Phoebe so we'll see which looks better, but you're right, didn't notice how identical these looked
 
parnell17 said:
IMO the colour scheme of Phoebe Bridgers VMP-variant was one of the best they had in quite some time; it seemed super unique after a few bland choices lately. Seems like I wasn't the only one who got inspired, the Secretly Store Exclusive of Khruangbin looks nearly the same.


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Pretty sure they just took the same mock-up and added some reflection... Even the swirls are the same.
 
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