What if I told you that this particular variant comes in “Baby Poop Brown?”
Storf has went from a staffer trying to make the best of an unpopular company direction, to a full blown willing and able huckster for VMP's latest bullshit.
A little excessive? The product/content writer writing about the company isn't a hucksters. He's doing his job not scamming anyone
I don't think i'm being excessive. VMP has been operating up until this year as a record club that had a hell of a lot more integrity than slinging out shitty jazz represses at a member's only markup above a company like Newberry that itself is just a recolor factory. Then Storf acts like this was some carefully curated gift to its members.
So your issue is that the guy who's job is to be the hype man is hyping up products?
They are selling shit out of a paper bag and calling it chocolate
What if I told you that this particular variant comes in “Baby Poop Brown?”
They are selling shit out of a paper bag and calling it chocolate, and Storf used to care about what he got hyped about.
This is my favorite bowie album!
I could be wrong but I think the statement that @TheThinWhiteDuke is taking issue with is when Storf said "We picked the albums we like the most and are the best titles (we think) in the labels history." From what I've gathered reading this thread, it seems that these titles were already pressed by Newbury, so unless it's just a complete coincidence that VMP's 4 favorite Prestige titles also happened to be the same 4 titles pressed by Newbury, then it calls into question the honesty of Storf's statement. At the very least, it seems other factors (i.e. the ease of getting these repressed in a new color) had at least something to do with why these got picked, and it's not entirely true that they could have picked anything and chose these because they like them more than any other Prestige titles.
I mean, dude works for the company. His job is to turn hype into $. Coming out with a “these were the cheapest and easiest records we could release!!!” Statement doesn’t have the same ring to it. As with most consume goods being pushed by corporations: Caveat Emptor.I could be wrong but I think the statement that @TheThinWhiteDuke is taking issue with is when Storf said "We picked the albums we like the most and are the best titles (we think) in the labels history." From what I've gathered reading this thread, it seems that these titles were already pressed by Newbury, so unless it's just a complete coincidence that VMP's 4 favorite Prestige titles also happened to be the same 4 titles pressed by Newbury, then it calls into question the honesty of Storf's statement. At the very least, it seems other factors (i.e. the ease of getting these repressed in a new color) had at least something to do with why these got picked, and it's not entirely true that they could have picked anything and chose these because they like them more than any other Prestige titles.