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My replacement Alicia Keys that was sent because the first replacement had a misprint on it… has a totally different misprint on it. You honestly couldn’t write this shit…. I mean… in this case it seems VMP actually can’t write something. Namely ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’ on the front of a...

And the stooges

Shame about the rock track. I’m trying to think about how many may have made it to essentials. Possibly Raw Power, Is This It. Maybe Heart. But it seems a totally sensible strategy. Maybe it’ll limit the number of filler style clangers they churn out across the wider VMP monthly universe

https://dinkededition.co.uk/suede-dog-man-star Looks a nice package

It’s also not numbered

I haven’t opened it yet but much weirdness going on with my replacement Alicia Keys box. It looks like someone has rubbed the type off the front of the box. Here is a pic of the original which was damaged And here’s the replacement they’ve just sent I mean… that’s just weird right?

At this point I don’t know whether they’d be better off binning off their community engagement models entirely (discord etc) and just going full faceless. There’s part of me that thinks it’s their profit margin as a company so who cares what batshit decisions they take (see the last 5 pages for...

It’s just stupid people preying on stupid people. TBT increasingly reminds me of a line I can recall from a documentary I once saw about a war hero that became a shrimp magnate. Stupid is as stupid does.

Because it’s awash with largely forgettable records that took years to sell out the first time but for one hour only people inexplicably decide they need to own more than they need to breathe air?

I've looked in on the Discord a couple of times but it's so rammed with memes you can't follow the conversation. Or should that be I'm too old to follow the conversation. Although it may be that I'm so old I don't care about the conversation... or memes... or discord

Storfenheimer probably lost it for VMP in a high stakes game of NHL 96 on the plant’s Megadrive rather than any real life transaction going down.

They must be sitting on masses and masses of excess stock. Entire swimming pools full of Japandroids and Torres records

They sent me a second 12 pack of bin ends by mistake. Arrived today and there is some solid crossover with box 1. Japandroids in both in impeccable condition for example. I actually think they used earth day as a way to clear a load of stuff out that’s been sitting there. Not just the dinged lot.

Not least because it’s a really, really good pressing and package. Killed themselves with stupid pricing on that one. Which is a shame as it’s a banger

It flashed up a few weeks back when I ordered a couple of the nonesuch albums so they must be on a clear out.

On its way already. For all the handwringing on pre order timescales and costs their CS is really pretty good.

Also trying to work out whether I should accept this or just ask them to send me a whole new set

Spoke too soon. My side C/D is an absolute shitshow

Mines 550. No handwritten note but it’s a really nice set. Probably on the money for what they’re charging.

The pricing for this just follows a pattern of similarly batshit pricing across the company. I’m thinking Barbie set, the Nonesuch prices, the full price for Love Movement etc etc etc The cynic in me thinks that they’re happy to rake in a load at the front end through die hard VMPers on the...