So are Aretha Now and Lucille
Here and the Reddit sub make up a very very small section of VMP user base. I have friends who subscribe to VMP who don’t use Reddit or forums and didn’t even know you could swap tracks. The subscriber base is so diverse partially because VMP doesn’t know who their customer base is and they are trying to throw everything at the wall. You have the people who are just getting into vinyl, you have audiophiles who are buying the AP pressings they just released, you have hip hop heads, people signing up to get 1 album, etc. I mean just look at this months’ options—they are all over the place. You also have the benefit and the curse of social media influencing people’s choices. I feel like 70+% of people who bought something like Still Woozy hadn’t even listened to it and just bought it because people online had hyped it so much.
Oh I think the swap exclusive thing is better for members so that’s interesting you feel that way. I’d rather have these exclusives go to members than the general public and flippers able to grab them. I was about to cancel this month because there wasn’t anything in swaps left that I was interested in last month. I ended up grabbing three albums instead...
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Ah. Gotcha. For me, it's almost better...because I only pay $23 for those swaps now instead of the full member pricing they have added. The add-on tracks are monthly and can be cancelled every time. I could see it being annoying if you want to keep all 3 tracks this month, but for me it was a no-brainer to add the tracks and swap since I didn't want any of the ROTMs this time around and three items were available for swapping that I have been looking for.
I tried this. Just the difference in sound quality between YouTube and this phone system is staggering. The phone is butchering the audio, which I'd kind of expect.Vinyl Me Please Essentials
Not too much buzz around this Caroline Rose essential. Has anybody heard it yet? It's not what I was expecting it to sound like. I did put it in rotation at that big Seattle station this weekend though, so some people definitely dig it.www.needlesandgrooves.com
you can listen to 7 of the songs in horrible quality and they all make me not want to listen to it
They set up an automatic answering type service and made it sound like an old phone service. It's not meant to sound crystal clear. It's just a silly gimmick. I know some people who set up one of these for fun awhile back called Call and Oates and you could dial-in and hit 1 for Rich Girl, 2 for I Can't Go For That, etc. To each their own, but it does seem a bit unfair to judge the album as a whole based on a marketing campaign and sound quality of something that's not meant to sound good.
I mean, he was clearly talking about VMP, but sure.
The problem is we only have 2 singles. One ok and one great so I'm using the marketing to judge if I would really want to use this or swap for blazing Arrow and save 23 bucks. And the horrible sound of the phone machine made it impossible to imagine what the songs sound like or sound pretty bad and completely different. So I decided to just swap
Fair enough. But that's the issue with preordering any new album anyway right? You don't know what all the songs sound like. And to be fair, it's why I almost never get the ROTM when it's a new album unless I really love everything the artist has done...It's a weird marketing ploy but I thought it's a bit fun and out of the ordinary.
Maybe I would have preferred it if it was like say slowthai or ivy soul or even masseduction in which it was already on Spotify so we could see if we actually liked it first
