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Overall, I am almost caught up with packages that arrived in Canada before and in the first week of the strike. In other countries, after the first week, practices varied. Some simply stopped accepting packages, some let them pile up in their sorting centres or airport warehouses. What they...

That model would fail. Actually, it could never get off the ground. Algorithm based personal curation is what Amazon tries to do. Badly. It is the opposite of scale. Cost per title would go through the roof. And there is no way people would like every selection. Unless they banned swaps, it...

Still learning.

Ashford & Simson aren't so bad. Valerie Simpson was a major, major Motown songwriter. She wrote many of the greatest hits of the 60's. Respect. Never heard of Eddie Hazel. I wasn't aware there was any room left on that coffin for another nail.

There are PLENTY enough GREAT sounding Dead options for these titles. Waiting for VMP may end up being the equivalent of standing at the dock waiting for the Titanic to arrive.

Agree. BTW, whatever Kai at SC says, by the pandemic he was like 70 and had his retirement already laid out. It was an easy push. I don't know what the scoop is on Sony. They seem to be more interested in rights management than product. They are still very active in sync but less in reissue...

Speakers Corner basically retired when the pandemic hit, although he did some represses and actually has two titles coming out this year - both lacquers that were cut pre-covid. Retirement/pandemic more than costs. Rubellan is marginal at best. Or was. Looks like a bad licensing deal put him...

They will scrape whatever barrel they can at this point. Craft/Concord don't want a record reissue club. They have a much larger customer base via retail. They can reissue whatever they like from their catalog with far wider distribution. And they would lose a lot of VMP licensed titles -...

I can think of lots of things that are more fun, even though most involve not wearing clothes.

Is this a kids record? Looks like it from the Sesame Street style cover. Never heard of her. From the clip, sounds like any of a thousand bar singers on the circuit.

Exactly. A One-Step Big Star - not exactly a delicate audiophile recording - ?? It will sound different as any new cut will. Not better. Different. Spend away.

Discord is an echo chamber. There is actually excess manufacturing capacity these days. So the fact that VMP can't get these titles pressed, and keep extending already long delays, is another indication of a sinking ship. Probable cause - an accounts payable crisis, extending payments way past...

I see this as several things. 1. A repudiation of Chad and his very limited knowledge/taste. 2. Squeezing Chad out the middle. 3. A recognition that VMP isn't a force any longer and won't get decent catalog titles. 4. An attempt to lock down customers in a market that is saturated and who...

OK, so this thread really doesn't belong in 'clubs' - despite the secret decoder ring bullshit, this is just a subscription offering. TP sales are going down, the bubble has been burst. So they need to do something like this to at least solidify the customer base. I would figure the...

There is a glut of narrow band style jazz in the market. Too many reissues. Very few sell out anymore and stores have excess stock. OG's go down in price now because of not just the over-production, but the fact that really mint OG's are actually quite rare and to most buyers aren't worth the...

It's been done, in 2012 and 2013. And very well done. BTW, the Drake family is not big on supposed audiophile reissues. They allowed it only once, unlikely again.

Nobody talks to birds. However, birds do talk to him.

Fortunately. Sonic Boom isn't a long lost sleeper great record. It's a miss. David Newman isn't on top form and in any event was an experiment that didn't work - hence the recording being rejected. However, the 45rpm BN branded record adapter - a 0.4 cent bonus - seems fairly essential. BTW, I...

Now that I am on the outside looking in from a distance, what is coming is a case of 'good from far but far from good'. Being an international VMP exile, it's now a case of looking at stuff and realizing that stuff like Abdul-Malik and Gus Cannon are really not much more than curiosities that...

Nor do I. Many of those older OJC's are AAA from better condition master tapes and were cut by very competent in-house lathe operators, who may not have 'celebrity' status but are damn good.