The Blue Note Thread

[MikeH]

Man, really tempted to buy Moanin' and Blue Train...but $75 each plus shipping, oof.

Hey if you buy 3 $75 records you get free shipping!!

 

[mitchwagz]

Yeah that’s absolutely ridiculous. $60 at most (even that is pushing it). Just because these are sought after titles doesn’t mean they should be $15 more than the SRX titles that came out last year. Bullshit

 

[Dark Star Boogie]

Knew they’d be $75 and I’m still sort of hesitant.
Doesn’t help that I have decent King presss of both.

 

[admerr]

MMJ site will be updated with new SRX titles in one hour.
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I wasn’t expecting to see my Facebook activity in here.
Great choices for those that missed out on the original 33’s. I’m only going for three of them. I was really hoping they stayed at the $60 mark.

 

[tvham]

Hey if you buy 3 $75 records you get free shipping!!

Not helping

Knew they’d be $75 and I’m still sort of hesitant.
Doesn’t help that I have decent King presss of both.

Sell me your King pressings and subsidize your purchase!!

 

[Dtknuckles]

F those guys. Those prices are a joke.

The only solace is that you can get to that 200.00 free shipping pretty easily.

 

[MikeH]

Not helping

Sell me your King pressings and subsidize your purchase!!

Yea @Dark Star Boogie —@tvham and I will buy your king presses haha

 

[Dtknuckles]

It's not like these titles will never be repressed in the time I have left on this earth. Even if they are pressed when I'm 60 I'll have at least five years of enjoyment. I'm good with that.

 

[MikeH]

The only solace is that you can get to that 200.00 free shipping pretty easily.

$200 for free shipping is crazy.

 

[wynn72]

Looks like See No Evil is out of stock again. Good. I don't want to even be tempted to support MMJ.

 

[Dark Star Boogie]

Looks like See No Evil is out of stock again. Good. I don't want to even be tempted to support MMJ.

I believe that’s for a later date.
All ten titles were put up today, but only two were released—Moanin’ and Blue Train.

And alright guys, I’ll let you guys know if I pull the trigger...
I do have $30 sitting in PayPal.

 

[mitchwagz]

I really can’t imagine Blue Note being happy with MMJ doing this with the big titles. But who knows. I would like to think Blue Note would want affordable audiophile copies of these titles in the same vein as Tone Poets. Hopefully in the next few years that will come to fruition.

 

[mitchwagz]

And here’s a bullshit response on FB to someone about why they’re $75:
Hi Jason, There are two reasons for the price increase. The main one is that each of these titles were sold at $74.95 on standard vinyl before they went out of stock.

We didn't want to undercut our loyal customers by coming out at a lower price.

Now, it would be easy to say "that's nice but MMJ still profits." However, the vinyl costs for the SRX continue to be exceedingly high as it's hard to work with, so our costs have gone up this round.

This is definitely a premium luxury product, but we do feel like the pricing is competitive with comparable (SuperVinyl) offerings.

 

[mitchwagz]

And here’s a bullshit response on FB to someone about why they’re $75:
Hi Jason, There are two reasons for the price increase. The main one is that each of these titles were sold at $74.95 on standard vinyl before they went out of stock.

We didn't want to undercut our loyal customers by coming out at a lower price.

Now, it would be easy to say "that's nice but MMJ still profits." However, the vinyl costs for the SRX continue to be exceedingly high as it's hard to work with, so our costs have gone up this round.

This is definitely a premium luxury product, but we do feel like the pricing is competitive with comparable (SuperVinyl) offerings.

They weren’t $75 until they jacked their prices. “People will buy them no matter how expensive they are” is what they should have said.

 

[from_my_stacks]

The only title tempting to me at $75 is "Idle Moments" as it is mostly a fairly quiet session and one of the best in the Blue Note catalog.

 

[Dark Star Boogie]

Do you all think these will sell it today?
I’m so torn.

 

[johnpisme]

I've bought OG copies of Moanin' in VG+ both Stereo and Mono within the last year and both were cheaper than this SRX.

 

[bother]

Ah okay I was wondering why they were all out of stock. $75 per title is fucking wild...

 

[wynn72]

And here’s a bullshit response on FB to someone about why they’re $75:
Hi Jason, There are two reasons for the price increase. The main one is that each of these titles were sold at $74.95 on standard vinyl before they went out of stock.

We didn't want to undercut our loyal customers by coming out at a lower price.

Now, it would be easy to say "that's nice but MMJ still profits." However, the vinyl costs for the SRX continue to be exceedingly high as it's hard to work with, so our costs have gone up this round.

This is definitely a premium luxury product, but we do feel like the pricing is competitive with comparable (SuperVinyl) offerings.

They're a crap company and IMO represent some of the worst parts about current vinyl collecting, which is hypocritical of a company called "Music Matters". I got in debate with John dark, who helps manage MMJ about why they've inflated prices so much over the years and based on quantity and this was the cringe-worthy answer he gave me.

 

[bother]

I was tempted for a second, but nah. I might get See No Evil and Midnight Blue (have a decent press already but I love that record and want something perfect) but maybe not. I have a fine Blue Train copy (not in love with the session anyway) and a nice early copy of Moanin'. So forget it.