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

NewsFedora said:
I forget, did Storf say if there’d be any exclusives to go with next ROTMs? It feels like it’s been a while since we had any.
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YES, YAASS, YEAH BABY!!!!! 🍾💃🕺

Storf said that for the October ROTM’s, two of them will have exclusives paired with them! 🥳

Because we already got exclusives for the future October Classics ROTM (the Fania Records exclusives), it looks like we will get exclusives to go with the Essentials and Rap & Hip-Hop ROTM’s! 🤗
 
NathanRicaud said:
YES, YAASS, YEAH BABY!!!!! 🍾💃🕺

Storf said that for the October ROTM’s, two of them will have exclusives paired with them! 🥳

Because we already got exclusives for the future October Classics ROTM (the Fania Records exclusives), it looks like we will get exclusives to go with the Essentials and Rap & Hip-Hop ROTM’s! 🤗
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or it could be that he is counting the already existing fania exclusives as one of the two
 
Mather said:
For the record I just wrote them a letter, it is as follows...

I just wanted to write a quick note about this Joel Ross Exclusive pressing from BlueNote that you guys put out this month. The music is great but this is a really disappointing pressing and package considering the price. This is a noisy record, every quiet passage is just covered in background noise and fuzz, and it's covered in pops and clicks likely from the super cheap paper sleeves that it was shipped with because they're basically sandpaper on any vinyl they touch. With the high quality pressings that VMP puts out every month in the classics subscription it's really disappointing to pay $33 USD for a Bluenote album and have it arrive with the cheapest gatefold and paper inner sleeves possible and to have the actual pressing of the album be so bad. This is worse than any of my Bluenote 75 pressings, and they are RENOWN for how bad they are but at least they only cost about 18 dollars each brand new.

I don't know that's there's specifically anything wrong with my copy that isn't the same on all the rest of them but if VMP is trying to make a name for itself when it comes to high quality audiophile quality releases these types of pressings shouldn't happen or at the very least they should be about 10 dollars cheaper. I don't usually say this when it comes to VMP but I feel like I got ripped off on this one.

-I'm sure they'll just offer me another which will sound exactly the same but I just think they need to hear this stuff sometimes...
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Djxfactor511 said:
RE: Joel Ross -

Mine sounds exactly the same as how y'all are describing it.

I even cleaned it again and my needle just to be sure.
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Damn this is really gutting news. This has been the record I have been most anticipating from VMP far a long long while. I've mentioned a few times that I was able to see Joel Ross perform live in a tiny venue in London (me and @NathanRicaud tag-teamed his 2 day residency and covered a day each) and it was superb. Especially considering the vibraphone is a rare instrument to see used nowadays. Its a shame that such a great up-and-coming artist should have such a shitty pressing for their first release.

According to the tracking I should be receiving my package today (Joel Ross, Comet is Coming, Knxwledge, Isley Brothers) and will spin Kingmaker first with crossed fingers.
 
Selaws said:
This is a real shame, I hope the dudes ok and has some sort of local support (friends, family ect)?
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For his own sake I hope so too. I think that both the way he collected and here were evidently not healthy things for him so i hope that he can find some solace once he’s sold the records and now that he’s made a clean break.
 
Selaws said:
Damn this is really gutting news. This has been the record I have been most anticipating from VMP far a long long while. I've mentioned a few times that I was able to see Joel Ross perform live in a tiny venue in London (me and @NathanRicaud tag-teamed his 2 day residency and covered a day each) and it was superb. Especially considering the vibraphone is a rare instrument to see used nowadays. Its a shame that such a great up-and-coming artist should have such a shitty pressing for their first release.

According to the tracking I should be receiving my package today (Joel Ross, Comet is Coming, Knxwledge, Isley Brothers) and will spin Kingmaker first with crossed fingers.
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Yeah it sucks. I mean it's possible we just got a bad batch. But a bad batch of 500? They're probably all like this unfortunately. The thing is this was apparently mastered by Kevin Gray so I don't know who plated and pressed it but whomever it was they did a horrible job. There's no info regarding that on the site, but I'm guessing maybe Memphis since VMP seems pretty enamoured with them these days...
 
Selaws said:
Damn this is really gutting news. This has been the record I have been most anticipating from VMP far a long long while. I've mentioned a few times that I was able to see Joel Ross perform live in a tiny venue in London (me and @NathanRicaud tag-teamed his 2 day residency and covered a day each) and it was superb. Especially considering the vibraphone is a rare instrument to see used nowadays. Its a shame that such a great up-and-coming artist should have such a shitty pressing for their first release.

According to the tracking I should be receiving my package today (Joel Ross, Comet is Coming, Knxwledge, Isley Brothers) and will spin Kingmaker first with crossed fingers.
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Mather said:
Yeah it sucks. I mean it's possible we just got a bad batch. But a bad batch of 500? They're probably all like this unfortunately. The thing is this was apparently mastered by Kevin Gray so I don't know who plated and pressed it but whomever it was they did a horrible job. There's no info regarding that on the site, but I'm guessing maybe Memphis since VMP seems pretty enamoured with them these days...
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I'll be cleaning my copy tomorrow and will report back as well. I'll be interested to see if similar reviews of the standard black pressing start popping up soon.
 
oldschoolkirby said:
I'll be cleaning my copy tomorrow and will report back as well. I'll be interested to see if similar reviews of the standard black pressing start popping up soon.
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A user on discogs suggests the standard is the same. I always assumed VMP just did coloured presses of current releases at the same plant using same stampers as the standard variant so I'm not too surprised that they are all alike.
 
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