Needles & Grooves

I go mo. X mo. (always have). Dip in n out based on interest. Not impressed by price changes & what seem like culture shift but not enough to sour me. Only 1 trk this mo. Don’t devote too many brain bytes to VMP

Lots have dropped. Lots have stayed. Lots of shipping delays.

I'm too tired to go find the Chrissy Teigen cringe face meme, but, that sort of sums it all up for me.

Fool me once, shame on me
Fool me twice, shame on VMP
Ain't foolin me thrice, ain't that a shame.

What @HiFi Guy said. If you dig 'em, stick with 'em. If you don't, then don't. Everyone is different.

But be aware that what you want- what you really really want- will be delayed.

And buckets, don't forget about the buckets. July is my last month for both Classics and essentials (I had a year sub). I will probably jump back in periodically for jazz albums in the Classics stream, but I have found ways to spend my $$$ elsewhere.

@jamieanderson1968 can you expand on buckets? Not familiar or maybe I am...

The last few oversells/screwups had people sorted into different "buckets" (VMPs' term) on who would and would not get the album first. But no one really knew which bucket you were in until you got the record and there was no rhyme or reason which bucket you ended up in. Basically they took eCommerce and set it back 20yrs.

Same as any other website. I’ll buy if they have something I want!