Pre-Order Thread

boychik0830 said:
I'm so glad I'm not a swiftie as she's basically scamming people getting them to buy the album several times all because of a bonus track. I'm sure eventually she will put these bonus tracks on streaming at somepoint. I also doubt that these variants are limited either as they have always become widely available with her last few albums.
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Sadly this is nothing new. Musicians have been doing this for years. Just with Taylor the amount of $$ involved is equal to the GDP of a medium sized country.
 
I don’t remember anyone doing what Taylor is doing. This is simple fleecing.

Merch has been a thing. Variants are a thing. But a new variant every week with a new track meaning that the die hards are going to spend more money and I would not be surprised if there are fans who order each and then the bundle as well.
 
Lee Newman said:
I don’t remember anyone doing what Taylor is doing. This is simple fleecing.

Merch has been a thing. Variants are a thing. But a new variant every week with a new track meaning that the die hards are going to spend more money and I would not be surprised if there are fans who order each and then the bundle as well.
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An extra track and a tacky badge
 
Mtcvinyl said:
It is not even the slow roll, gouge the fans marketing strategy that annoys me. It is the crazy shipping costs. So I, as an avowed sucker and Swiftie lite but hardcore Swiftie dad, have now paid $9+ dollars three times to ship this record. And there is a chance after all these limited variants are released that she will do a one or two day bundle with combined shipping (she did for 1989) but means I have to do the work to buy that and cancel all the individual orders to save the money. Kinda crazy.

Sorry rant over.

Happy Friday everyone.
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They’re pretty good at cancelling orders. I think you could order this one and the original to save yourself $9 and cancel your first order.
 
boychik0830 said:
I'm so glad I'm not a swiftie as she's basically scamming people getting them to buy the album several times all because of a bonus track. I'm sure eventually she will put these bonus tracks on streaming at somepoint. I also doubt that these variants are limited either as they have always become widely available with her last few albums.
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It’s not a scam if you know it’s coming. It’s just an MLM at this point.
 
Lee Newman said:
I don’t remember anyone doing what Taylor is doing. This is simple fleecing.

Merch has been a thing. Variants are a thing. But a new variant every week with a new track meaning that the die hards are going to spend more money and I would not be surprised if there are fans who order each and then the bundle as well.
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There are plenty of artists who release a lot of variants bur you hear people saying i have to collect all variants like they do with taylor swift. People just variant collect because it's taylor. When other artists like black pumas, rhcp, the barbie soundtrack and green day release a lot of variants they say that it's way too many variant it needs to stop. Most artists don't release a bonus track on every variant except for maybe a target exclusive track. It works because she knows that her fans will go broke trying to buy every variant she releases.
 
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boychik0830 said:
There are plenty of artists who release a lot of variants bur you hear people saying i have to collect all variants like they do with taylor swift. People just variant collect because it's taylor. When other artists like black pumas, rhcp, the barbie soundtrack and green day release a lot of variants they say that it's way too many variant it needs to stop. Most artists don't release a bonus track on every variant except for maybe a target exclusive track. It works because she knows that her fans will go broke trying to buy every variant she releases.
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See I’ve tried to keep Pumas out of this for various reasons. But since you brought it up. Pumas got a lot of shit for releasing a zillion variants of their first album, after the initial burst of three or four leading up to the release, most were done as variants sold out from ATO. This is a completely different thing.

Again, with other artists, it is a straw man argument. They release a variant on their site, the label has a variant, then various vendors release variants leading up to the release. Maybe a few stragglers when the dust settles afterwards.

I can’t think of one other artist that has done a release a week and in a very predatory way adds another incentive to the fans to buy this new one.
 
Lee Newman said:
See I’ve tried to keep Pumas out of this for various reasons. But since you brought it up. Pumas got a lot of shit for releasing a zillion variants of their first album, after the initial burst of three or four leading up to the release, most were done as variants sold out from ATO. This is a completely different thing.

Again, with other artists, it is a straw man argument. They release a variant on their site, the label has a variant, then various vendors release variants leading up to the release. Maybe a few stragglers when the dust settles afterwards.

I can’t think of one other artist that has done a release a week and in a very predatory way adds another incentive to the fans to buy this new one.
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Agreed. My wife is a swiftie and says this is the only thing she dislikes about her current approach. If she would just drop all these at once I don't think anyone would mind tbh. Transparency is all we ask for, though one has to think it's pretty transparent what she's gonna do at this point.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Agreed. My wife is a swiftie and says this is the only thing she dislikes about her current approach. If she would just drop all these at once I don't think anyone would mind tbh. Transparency is all we ask for, though one has to think it's pretty transparent what she's gonna do at this point.
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Even if she did drop them all at once, I have a strong dislike of doing a different bonus track on each one. That to me is the biggest fuck you to fans.
 
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