The Electric mastering on Ancestors was good, but the VMP pressing wasn't. But that was pressed at Hand Drawn. The mastering and pressing of "Your Queen Is A Reptile" both sucked and that was Electric again but the pressing plant isn't listed.
HDP usually says HDP on every side though, so definitely something weird happened there.
Looking back at Ancestors, it shows GZ for the standard press and Hand Drawn for the VMP. Seems unlikely though. Could be Discogs has it wrong and it's actually GZ for both. Anyhow, either way the VMP pressing was garbage.
The standard US says it is the same as the VMP, but I'm not sure if someone copied it off the VMP listing or if it is correct. VMP is correct. I'll have to spin it again to see if I was as unlucky with pressing issues as I don't remember obvious problems but maybe I was less critical since it was free.
From what I recall, the usual. Lots of warps, end of side crackle and surface noise. I got mine from the PIF thread because so many were being replaced.
DOOOOOOOOOOMED@Mather I may order a shibata replacement for my cart soon so maybe I will start to feel your pain
The VMP Ancestors pressing is one of the worst I’ve seen in the past year or so. I think I went through 4 copies and couldn’t even cobble together one good set. Warps, off-centre, repetitive clicks. You name it.
Yeah that tracks with what's in Cogs. So I guess hopefully Furnace does a better job with pressing this version than Hand Drawn did. But looking at Furnaces "Hollow Knight Soundtrack" reviews they botched that one, and I could only find one other release of theirs with multiple reviews .. they haven't done much... Certainly no big releases that I could find.
Of course missing the info that Side A,C,D were cut by Kevin Bartley (at Capitol?) And side B cut by Margaret Luther at Welcome to 1979. In case anyone cares.
I recall reading that as well, actually. I want to say they've pressed some Neil Young stuff?
Oh completely and it's something that has been brought up here a few times, but at the end of the day it's still cheaper.To be fair, whilst no one has ever complained at this, that’s solely because they don’t correctly declare the customs value on the packages so you don’t pay the VAT/customs charges that should be due on them
So like... if they get caught.... who busts them and how much are those fees?
I might be wrong but I think they have tried (big try!) to justify it in the past by saying the subscription is the fee and that the actual value of their store items is low. Completely ridiculous but perhaps that seems to fly.
