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

I just peaked back in the store, and several past Essential ROTM picks... looks like their new FOMO based pricing is $40 for any 2LP and $34 for any single LP. That's just insane.

I'm kind of tempted to go back and review my 2018 add on expenses vs my 2019 add ons. Just to see how much I have been actually speaking with my wallet. I obviously need to be speaking with it even more often.
 
displayname said:
I just peaked back in the store, and several past Essential ROTM picks... looks like their new FOMO based pricing is $40 for any 2LP and $34 for any single LP. That's just insane.

I'm kind of tempted to go back and review my 2018 add on expenses vs my 2019 add ons. Just to see how much I have been actually speaking with my wallet. I obviously need to be speaking with it even more often.
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Thats been the past AoTM pricing now for a very long time. Im pretty sure they put it up to that whilst the old place was still up and running because I remember storf trying to justify with some incoherent bullshit or other.
 
Jeff Lerner said:
I thought the rationale behind eliminating one month subs was that people dipping in and out made it impossible for them to accurately project pressing quantities. Wouldn't allowing people to skip a month here and there create the same problem?
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I don’t know, I would assume so! 🤷🏽‍♂️
Just stating what I read lol
 
Jeff Lerner said:
I thought the rationale behind eliminating one month subs was that people dipping in and out made it impossible for them to accurately project pressing quantities. Wouldn't allowing people to skip a month here and there create the same problem?
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I guess now it's more knowing they have a larger guaranteed amount of money coming (3 mos min) as opposed to only one month guaranteed.
 
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displayname said:
I just peaked back in the store, and several past Essential ROTM picks... looks like their new FOMO based pricing is $40 for any 2LP and $34 for any single LP. That's just insane.

I'm kind of tempted to go back and review my 2018 add on expenses vs my 2019 add ons. Just to see how much I have been actually speaking with my wallet. I obviously need to be speaking with it even more often.
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Companies should learn that when prices are this high people actually spend less. The ‘Black Friday Sale’ where records (which they couldn’t sell a year ago) are sold for their original price fools nobody. 30+ dollars needs to be some unicorn level wonderment to entice me.
 
Murfocakes said:
Companies should learn that when prices are this high people actually spend less. The ‘Black Friday Sale’ where records (which they couldn’t sell a year ago) are sold for their original price fools nobody. 30+ dollars needs to be some unicorn level wonderment to entice me.
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Agree with you there. The main track used to be worth it because it included the international shipping for everything and you got a couple of extra records at $23 and the exclusives were generally max $25. Now it’s getting less enticing by the day...
 
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Joe Mac said:
Thats been the past AoTM pricing now for a very long time. Im pretty sure they put it up to that whilst the old place was still up and running because I remember storf trying to justify with some incoherent bullshit or other.
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Huh, guess I didn't notice. I remember them going up, but I didn't remember $40. That really is full on MoFi/AP pricing. They've lost it.

Don't get me wrong, there are a few I think are still worth that price. But that certainly shouldn't be the standard in my opinion. Which doesn't matter anyway.
 
MikeH said:
well i take it back on not repressing things on black vinyl...
www.fatbeats.com

Lloyd Miller - Oriental Jazz (LP)

Born in 1938, and raised in Glendale, California, Lloyd Miller has had one of the most unusual careers in all of jazz. By age 12 he had declared an intent to make his living as a jazz musician, and by high school he had already begun to experiment, shunning swing music's mechanical perfection...
www.fatbeats.com www.fatbeats.com
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Now-Again said all along they’d be doing another pressing of it down the road.
 
displayname said:
Huh, guess I didn't notice. I remember them going up, but I didn't remember $40. That really is full on MoFi/AP pricing. They've lost it.

Don't get me wrong, there are a few I think are still worth that price. But that certainly shouldn't be the standard in my opinion. Which doesn't matter anyway.
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Storf’s bullshit excuse, if I remember correctly, was that it was to protect the value of your membership by rewarding staying in every month by giving it added value, which is preposterous. I think the actual reason is to protect a level of stock for swaptions and as an idiot tax. It does look pretty shabby though!
 
The last records I bought were all under £15. 3LP Egypt Station by McCartney, In Time by R.E.M., Sons Of Kemet album and Jerry Lee Lewis at the Star Club. As an internet store surely you should realise people will check prices online. It’s why that Angel Olsen is still there despite being a great album.
 
Murfocakes said:
The last records I bought were all under £15. 3LP Egypt Station by McCartney, In Time by R.E.M., Sons Of Kemet album and Jerry Lee Lewis at the Star Club. As an internet store surely you should realise people will check prices online. It’s why that Angel Olsen is still there despite being a great album.
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Yeah I only have their pressing of Angel Olsen is because they let me swap it so it was $23, which was less than the clear one was going for in my local. I honestly don’t think they care, they have a group that are blindly loyal and sell enough of most pressings to get away with it.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah I only have their pressing of Angel Olsen is because they let me swap it so it was $23, which was less than the clear one was going for in my local. I honestly don’t think they care, they have a group that are blindly loyal and sell enough of most pressings to get away with it.
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Stop being so negative you! 🧐

VMP get away with it because they have such good taste when it comes to colour variants as well as curation. Plus, their sound quality (particularly their ROTM’s) for the most part is pretty great in my opinion! And they offer free international shipping if you are a member, which is amazing too! 🔥🔥🔥

I love VMP even though they are a very messy company. They are very inconsistent, but come through with great products in my opinion. And their customer service is 👌

There’s a reason why VMP are the biggest vinyl subscription company 💁‍♂️
 
NathanRicaud said:
Stop being so negative you! 🧐

VMP get away with it because they have such good taste when it comes to colour variants as well as curation. Plus, their sound quality (particularly their ROTM’s) for the most part is pretty great in my opinion! And they offer free international shipping if you are a member, which is amazing too! 🔥🔥🔥

I love VMP even though they are a very messy company. They are very inconsistent, but come through with great products in my opinion. And their customer service is 👌

There’s a reason why VMP are the biggest vinyl subscription company 💁‍♂️
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I’m trying to come up with a reasoned argument back but I just can’t because I see the messiness of the company as affecting all the things you say are great and that it is leading to a diminished product. Whilst they can get it dead right (songs for the deaf is impressive) it feels like their ratio is well down and I rate their curation less and less as time goes on too.

All I can say really is I’m glad it brings you joy.
 
Joe Mac said:
I’m trying to come up with a reasoned argument back but I just can’t because I see the messiness of the company as affecting all the things you say are great and that it is leading to a diminished product. Whilst they can get it dead right (songs for the deaf is impressive) it feels like their ratio is well down and I rate their curation less and less as time goes on too.

All I can say really is I’m glad it brings you joy.
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Their ratio for delivering a high quality product (including their pressings having no sound defects or major warps) has gone down. I highly agree with that. But I feel like this is happening everywhere, whether it’s Blue Note or Urban Outfitters even to when I was with Secretly Store. Apart from MoFi pressings and the Blue Note Tone Poet pressings and the Classics ROTM track, everything can be a bit of hit and miss (in my experience).

I feel like their curation, particularly in the R&HH ROTM track, has also gone down-hill since the second half of this year unfortunately.

I do very much agree with you, because the messiness of the club really does affect the quality of the overall vinyl. But I guess I just don’t mind taking chances, as I really like their coloured variants, prices and customer service and overall quality!
 
NathanRicaud said:
Their ratio for delivering a high quality product (including their pressings having no sound defects or major warps) has gone down. I highly agree with that. But I feel like this is happening everywhere, whether it’s Blue Note or Urban Outfitters even to when I was with Secretly Store. Apart from MoFi pressings and the Blue Note Tone Poet pressings and the Classics ROTM track, everything can be a bit of hit and miss (in my experience).

I feel like their curation, particularly in the R&HH ROTM track, has also gone down-hill since the second half of this year unfortunately.

I do very much agree with you, because the messiness of the club really does affect the quality of the overall vinyl. But I guess I just don’t mind taking chances, as I really like their coloured variants, prices and customer service and overall quality!
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see this is where I really disagree with you. I’ve only ever had 3 other records warped from all other online retailers combined and, this is impressive because I buy 75% in store, 2 records warped from store bought. That said I wouldn’t touch a trash retailer like uo either unless I really had to.

I also don’t agree with you on price. They charge premium prices for a product that isn’t always premium. Very few of their pressings have had the attention to detail that their price points suggest. Even the lauding of what they have been dragged kicking and screaming into doing for classics can be done cheaply, look at the rhino van Morrison and Joni Mitchell reissues or last months Ruen Bros AoTM, all at the €20 or less bracket and the same, or a higher level of quality.
 
NathanRicaud said:
Their ratio for delivering a high quality product (including their pressings having no sound defects or major warps) has gone down. I highly agree with that. But I feel like this is happening everywhere, whether it’s Blue Note or Urban Outfitters even to when I was with Secretly Store. Apart from MoFi pressings and the Blue Note Tone Poet pressings and the Classics ROTM track, everything can be a bit of hit and miss (in my experience).

I feel like their curation, particularly in the R&HH ROTM track, has also gone down-hill since the second half of this year unfortunately.

I do very much agree with you, because the messiness of the club really does affect the quality of the overall vinyl. But I guess I just don’t mind taking chances, as I really like their coloured variants, prices and customer service and overall quality!
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A 99.9% positive review. That 0.1% hints at the great disillusionment to come with the inevitable Fiona shitshow
 
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