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

They’ve been talking about a swap track for a minute. I bet they are going to reduce the tracks to one and you’ll be able to select from the three current tracks and you can have as many swap tracks as you’d like to choose whatever you want from available options. (Of course they’re set up in Shopify won’t be able to handle this and February will be the most spectacular dumpster fire ever. DOGE will be called in to investigate and the board will be deported.
 
tvham said:
Between account credit and store credit I should have close to $100 at VMP. I'm tempted to join for a month to grab an album then bounce, I don't see things getting better anytime soon.
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i see january as a make or break -- for me personally if not for the company. I've got toussaint, fela, grateful dead and bluenote. Of which at least the dead and blue note are theorietically coming in january. If they don't, I'll have to ask for refunds and try to cut my losses. Waiting a month feels like an acceptable risk.
 
yukbon said:
i see january as a make or break -- for me personally if not for the company. I've got toussaint, fela, grateful dead and bluenote. Of which at least the dead and blue note are theorietically coming in january. If they don't, I'll have to ask for refunds and try to cut my losses. Waiting a month feels like an acceptable risk.
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Yeah honestly the only album they currently have in stock that I'd want is the Heart album, I keep waiting for them to drop something else I'd enjoy but no luck. Maybe I'll wait to see what they have for Feb
 
yukbon said:
oh no, sorry if i wasn't clear: make or break in the sense that if they don't meet their own deadline again for grateful dead again, then i'm very likely going to cancel all my pending orders. the only one I really really wantn above the others is the blue note box.
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Yeah, but there are a lot of people that they have extended past any possibility of good will.
 
Biscuit said:
I wouldn't be shocked if they were going to a "send us money, tell us what genres you like and we'll send you something we think fits your interests". "Trust us to curate your box". I think they have been testing the concept with the mystery bundles that have been successful. It's flexible (for them) and mysterious (for you). Helps them move stuff that's sitting and gets them out of some of traps they're in now.
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I like the idea if that where you could give them your discogs profile and tell that what kinds of artists you like so they send you stuff that you would enjoy. I'd consider joining a vinyl club if they offered something like that. I wouldn't want to pay $40+ a month for a membership where I wasn't interested in 90% of what they were offering and it isn't stuff I would have bought if I was going shopping at a record store.
 
boychik0830 said:
I like the idea if that where you could give them your discogs profile and tell that what kinds of artists you like so they send you stuff that you would enjoy. I'd consider joining a vinyl club if they offered something like that. I wouldn't want to pay $40+ a month for a membership where I wasn't interested in 90% of what they were offering and it isn't stuff I would have bought if I was going shopping at a record store.
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That was VNyl and (initially) Bandbox’s stchick.
 
Nee Lewman said:
That was VNyl and (initially) Bandbox’s stchick.
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is vnyl still around or did they shut down? I know people complained about them not being very good. I love discovering new artists but I don't want to be stuck with stuff that I'd only play once or twice. There are certain kinds of albums I wouldn't want to receive. I also like the mystery aspect of receiving mystery albums that you don't know what they are but the membership would have to be cheap and I'd have to like the majority of the albums I received. I wouldn't want to end up getting a bunch of dollar bin vinyl junk either. I occasionally see stuff in membership clubs that I want but not enough to get a membership. Honestly I'm just happier buying the albums that I want then paying for albums that I have no desire to listen to.
 
boychik0830 said:
is vnyl still around or did they shut down? I know people complained about them not being very good. I love discovering new artists but I don't want to be stuck with stuff that I'd only play once or twice. There are certain kinds of albums I wouldn't want to receive. I also like the mystery aspect of receiving mystery albums that you don't know what they are but the membership would have to be cheap and I'd have to like the majority of the albums I received. I wouldn't want to end up getting a bunch of dollar bin vinyl junk either. I occasionally see stuff in membership clubs that I want but not enough to get a membership. Honestly I'm just happier buying the albums that I want then paying for albums that I have no desire to listen to.
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They appear to still be around. There are comments about them on r:/vinyl that sound a lot like the VMP issues.
 
boychik0830 said:
I like the idea if that where you could give them your discogs profile and tell that what kinds of artists you like so they send you stuff that you would enjoy. I'd consider joining a vinyl club if they offered something like that. I wouldn't want to pay $40+ a month for a membership where I wasn't interested in 90% of what they were offering and it isn't stuff I would have bought if I was going shopping at a record store.
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I just don't think it's a very successful model for a Club. If they want to do it well this kind of curation is very time-intensive so you need lots of man-power or at some point an ai to do that. If you than choose individual albums you have low margins on every Album and no fancy exclusives but end up with albums that you could get cheaper elsewhere. And that's assuming they hit you with the right albums at a high percentage.
But at least in my personal experience I listen to lot of albums recommended here, in music journals etc with "for fans of" tags and very often albums that should be completely in my wheelhouse are not the ones i like. But curation most often works for me when I follow recommendations from people whose taste I trust for instance here or in magazines or vmp when it's from a genre, artist etc. That is underrepresented in my discogs, where I don't know much about. The greatest vmp discoveries I got were jazz, soul, blues, Latin, African albums because I simply did not know too much of the genres
 
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