Vinyl Me Please Anthology

MikeH said:
I was just bein sarcastic. They hyped the "private community" thing with the Blue Note box and it was one of the most miserable things I have seen on the internet. It was people attacking anybody who didn't like the pressings or had issues with customer service and one guy who kept posting CD covers of Blue Note albums and trying to pretend they were vinyl hah.
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Lol. I remember hearing all about this. I don't have FB so I couldn't join. My friend, your sarcasm is more than warranted.
 
MattS said:
I love the podcast order as well. Now that we have explored how the Dead got to the place where they could right such thoughtful and earnest songs and musically reallign to deliver WD and AB, let us look forward to 1969? WD and AB is the bridge between Live Dead and Europe 72, I understand wanting to put the two 1970 albums together, they are mythologized as one at this point, but from a narrative perspective episode 2 is not quite as smooth.

Edit: @spilledleche made this point just before. He is NOT wrong
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Yeah. This bit really bothers me.
 
I'm only a casual fan of the Dead and I'm an avowed hater of VMP so I'm sure my opinion is biased, but I checked out the link and it all seems kinda corny to me. The colors seem random and out of place and most don't match the covers. The box is fine but doesn't look super high quality, especially at the premium price. And, of course, the price-point is just absurd. In other words, typical VMP.
 
Lol well thankfully I can pass on this set. Without a Net will be out soon enough to purchase on its own, I can only hope. I have everything else. I have absolutely no idea why this box set is a thing though. Colored vinyl is cool I suppose but I would still recommend finding original pressings or recent Rhino reissues of these albums.

I’m pretty these will all be available individually on black vinyl in a year or so. No way they are going through the work to do these and not making a wide release on black vinyl through Rhino.
 
I do like how they posted that Live Dead photograph with Pigpen in the car, Tom Constanten holding a giant stick, and Mickey with an acoutsitc guitar. That should confuse some people.


If you look at the list of names of the guests they brought in to comment on the Dead, you can see their target audience. Members of the Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective. VMP has their demographic.
 
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