To be fair the entire industry of vinyl production and sales lost him. I think for all their woes VMP shoulder little of the blame there!
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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To be fair the entire industry of vinyl production and sales lost him. I think for all their woes VMP shoulder little of the blame there!
Murfocakes
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True. Hiking prices and creating constant ‘limited’ editions mixed with poor pressings I can see where he’s coming from.
I don’t think that was the issue either. I don’t think the way he collected was particularly healthy tbh.
Speedracer
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This is why I can't be a member of VMP. Signed back up less than 24 hours ago and already spent a $100 on exclusives 
bdm105
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blissfullychaotic
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Yupp, I already didn't really like platform, now I have no reason to support them, except they did give me a gift card for completing the cleveland beer passport before Phunkenship opened so I shall use their own money for one last salty purchase.
Taevis
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I caved and bought the VMP Fader compilation. It’s the first thing I’ve bought from VMP in over a year. There were just too many artists I like on it.
I don’t have an original to compare but VMP’s version is 45 RPM and sounds really good. It was packed in one of those loose poly bags.
zombie.modernist
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Thanks @Kris @bdm105 and @Djxfactor511 ! I think I will grab it this month, been looking for decent Loretta for over a year, and I only see her 80s stuff in local shops. Not too much demand for country this far north I guess haha.
Edit: Just decided to pick it up for $24 vs waiting for swaps to save a dollar. Wish they had done a few more from her catalog, but her stuff seems to have not been too popular.
Edit: Just decided to pick it up for $24 vs waiting for swaps to save a dollar. Wish they had done a few more from her catalog, but her stuff seems to have not been too popular.
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Wonder if this makes it to swaps. It is supposed to ship in Early September.
tonythegamer
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if not, you could always email someone to get swapped to it manually
TenderLovingKiller®
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I was thinking that too but there were only 300, he is advertising it on his instagram and it is open to the general public so it might be close. Personally I am not big on autographs anyways (unless it was like an all-time great or someone I care a great deal for). I am gonna stick with my “cocaine white” bandcamp variant.
Nothing about this Joel Ross is worth 33 bucks. Just got it, cheap flimsy gatefold, cheapest paper sleeves you can buy which scratch up every record they have ever contained, and a noisy pressing that is super distracting anytime you get a silent passage, so far the first track on side A seems to be the worst culprit. The music is great, shame about pretty much everything else.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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I found a real nice clean copy of Dolly Parton’s Jolene for $14 at HPB’s yesterday I thought I would go ahead and buy that then cancel my Willie/Dolly bundle and just purchase Willie by itself. After listening to it though I think I am just gonna hang in there with the bundle. The OG copy sounds hot. The highs warble unpleasantly. The copy is super clean so I don’t think it’s the disc and it’s the same on both sides. I wonder if they all sound like this or if it’s just a bum copy. Regardless, I am hoping the VMP pressing (which I am assuming is the same as the upcoming remaster) sounds better than this.
Yeah, I listened to mine last night and sides A&B were fairly noisy during the more quiet sections as well. The last half seemed a bit better noise-wise, but still pretty disappointing overall based on the first half.
Melt Face Molly Drop
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Yeah I mean is it the worst? No. It's... fine. Maybe I've been spoiled by how good classics pressings are now but seriously, for a company that's partnered with Blue Note on an entire anthology, why is this package so cheap and why is the pressing so average? And the absolute cheapest paper sleeves?? C'mon man...
Chris V
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I'm not sure whether to use the laugh, cry or anger emoji in response to this, but its spot on.
When you support a company that's been known to overcharge for exclusives
I knowwww! But they're aren't any other vinyl clubs in Canada that I could even switch to! This is it! It's them or nothing and I like my monthly thiiiiiiiiiings...
When you support a company that's been known to overcharge for exclusives
Stop looking at me.
AudioAce
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Lets start our own Canadian record club. It'll be just Rush, Feist and The Tragically Hip!!