I've only got one Gotta Groove pressing, the recent Luna-Bewitched reissue, but it's good - clean, quiet and dynamic with a rice paper lined inner. Their repressing of The Fountain sdtrk is on its way to me, hoping it's of similar quality. Cleveland rocks.
The Sinatra and Beatles boxes are wildly diff value though. You’re not gonna find a Beatles box for $500. One sold earlier this month for $550+ with an absolutely trashed box and water damage. The value on the Beatles one has gone up to pretty crazy prices in the past year
Of those 3 I would rate them in the order they are presented. The few Gotta Groove albums I own have been well done. TMR and MRP are not great though I will say I feel like both have gotten better (Or maybe I’ve gotten luckier) over the past couple years.
You both passed my very biased test! I’ve had really great experience with Gotta Groove and mostly poor experience with the other two. I generally avoid them whenever I can. It’s a shame about Third Man. They have a cool origin story and I want them to be great.....but they aren’t, in my experience anyway.
Same with me. I have I think 5 Gotta Groove pressings and have all been nice. When I buy TMR I know I will not get a great pressing but since it is the only way to get some of their reissues I hold my nose
Great thanks for the info. I’m sticking to my guns, I’ll seek out individual titles instead. I’d never spin Beatles For Sale, Help, Yellow Submarine or the first two, and minimally spin Let It Be, Hard Day’s Night, Mystery Tour, even Sgt Peppers. The only ones I “need” at this point are White Album, Revolver, and maybe Rubber Soul
Kim is sorely missed. Unbelievable talent.I was surprised to receive both The Muffs albums today. Just listened to Blonder and Blonder and man, what a great album! High energy, melodic, fun, and some of the best screaming I’ve heard in a while!
They used to do spend $99, get 10% off in stock items, but that deal disappeared a while back. And now that you mention it, the same thing happened with with Music Direct and Elusive Disc around the same time... I smell collusion, j'accuse price fixers!
Yeah, it seems they have done away with their coupons, but they do offer free shipping with orders over $49 (and let’s face it, most of them are!), and I think they upgrade the shipping method they offer for free with more expensive purchases (I don’t remember the cutoff). The free shipping is just about as good as 10% off and in some cases even better, depending, of course, on math!
MPO has been solid for me! All those DeAgostini pressings are from there and sound solid. I don't have any hesitation buying MPO pressed albums based on what I already own.
Lol I was about to post this.
Where?
Yea a One Step is on its way at some point.
Acoustic Sounds
Thanks for the heads-up!
whatcha gettin?
