Vinyl Me Please Anthology

I mean, I've seen them put $0 in there a few times, like Herbie is listed as $0 right now. But my feeling is, they didn't realize someone would pull that site up before it was live, and didn't scrub the launch price out in time. So my bet now is $450 base price, $400 subscriber price. I'd be interested in this at $350, I'd buy at $300.

agree with the prices you listed. I think most of the boxes have been around what, $27 a disc.
 
I knew VMP would do something silly with this, but I feel like if it is 450, around even 400 after discount, then they are not going to do well. I guess Storf did pick this stuff, anyone who has listened to the Dead for a while and has followed their vault output would know that this is just lazy. Without a Net is hard to find cheap, and I can appreciate that 72 can't always be found for under 35 or 40, but this is ridiculous. I get that MoFi has released some of these for 40-50 a pop, and you can make that argument. But 1) I doubt these will be as well done sonically, or as far as jackets and QC, 2) a box set should be cheaper than piecing the albums individually, and 3) they are providing nothing new. The podcasts could be cool, but I listened to the Stax podcasts and didn't buy that box set. To whoever gets this, I hope you enjoy and it makes you happy and falls in love with a great band that makes beautiful music. However, I hope you know that there are cheaper more reliant ways to get just about all of this. I know FOMO and hype is the name of the game, but I am almost upset that this is what they delivered and they tried to make it sound special.
 
This is a total rip off in my book...the rhino releases are all around $20...I’m glad vmp is price gauging this one cuz it saves me from being tempted now

Stupid question and I could probably just google, but what's the sourcing on the rhino releases? They sound decent? I've always been on the fence with rhino.
 
This is a total rip off in my book...the rhino releases are all around $20...I’m glad vmp is price gauging this one cuz it saves me from being tempted now
Same to be honest. I was torn on joining this one but the price immediately takes me out of wanting to buy this luckily. I now know what I will do with the money I was planning on dropping on this...haha
 
Good starter box but you can track almost all of this down for a fraction of the cost. If that other poster was right about the $450 price then just

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Would be really interested in that set since i always held off buying the dead on vinyl but 450$ is way too much for me. But it also sounds on par wizh what vmp would charge for a 14lp set.
 
Stupid question and I could probably just google, but what's the sourcing on the rhino releases? They sound decent? I've always been on the fence with rhino.
The Rhino releases, as most of their stuff, sounds good.

Problem is for $450, you can do the following:

WD MoFi (50)
AB MoFi (50)
Wake MoFi (50)
Rhino Live Dead (20)
RTI E 72 (60)
Warfield '80 (40) (Same live shows as Reckoning)

Roughly $270.

Have $180 left over to either buy a full show or round out your vinyl collection

And the MoFis sound-wise are the definitive editions
 


according to this

Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Live Dead (2LP)
Europe '72 (3LP)
Wake Of The Flood
Terrapin Station
Reckoning (2LP)
Without a Net (3LP)


Workingman's and American Beauty just felt too obvious. They're also essentially like a continuation of one another recorded during the same period. I think a lot of us saw that coming, but if you're trying to represent the band's diverse history, including 2 albums that came out in the same year isn't the most effective move. Looks like everything but the top three are what I put on my list, though, and those are the 3 that I expected them to include, but didn't want them to, because everyone has them. Great albums, though, if you have nothing. The Without A Net is appealing, but the target isn't the hardcore collectors and, honestly, it probably shouldn't be.
 
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I think most of the Motown box was easy to get but I could be wrong
I believe Ghostly was also all easily available in non-color variants. BN might be the only one not easily available for cheaper. Zamrock too has some not repressed but supposedly most will be repressed in the next year or so by Now-Again.
 
This feels like those Greatest Hits compilations that throw in the one rare track to try to entice the hardcore in buying. Without A Net is the one everyone wants and hasn't been pressed in ages, but hell if I'm paying $450 for this when I already own half the box in vinyl and all of it on CD. I can complete my vinyl collection of these, even dropping 100-150 on Without A Net for under 250.
 
I believe Ghostly was also all easily available in non-color variants. BN might be the only one not easily available for cheaper. Zamrock too has some not repressed but supposedly most will be repressed in the next year or so by Now-Again.
I only did the BN box, so the idea of getting good reissues of hard to find/expensive records was what sold me. I think the Dead.net crowd will laugh and selection at the price of this release. So lets see how long it lasts
 
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