Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

$23 a month??

there is something to be said for just owning one ben webster album and nothing else. you could do worse. just listen to it once a week. on a sunday.

otm

i have to share this:

http://middlewestmgmt.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/grownass-man-thumb.jpg

The Shouting Matches’ debut album, Grownass Man, is a throwback to an era when friends would get together just to play music. They weren’t playing to make money or have a career, but to just jam together for the fun of it. Occasionally, they’d play in front of their other friends or at parties. Other times they’d have hootenannies in a barn, filled with dancing, barbecue, beers, and good times, playing until the sun came up or the cops came by. Grownass Man is just that: a hootenanny brought to your stereo from three friends who have managed to channel that classicist approach into an organic sound that feels like a much older band.

It’s not as simple as three nameless friends getting together in a barn – The lead singer also happens to be Justin Vernon, the man behind Bon Iver. Vernon’s presence raises expectations to the point where it would crush another band. But, drummer Brian Moe and bassist Phil Cook manage to blend seamlessly with Vernon, creating music that is loose and fun. If you’re walking into Grownass Man with the expectation that you’re getting another Bon Iver record, then you’ll be sorely disappointed. But, if you put that cynicism aside, you’ll find an album that’s as enjoyable as any released this year.

the whole concept of paying premium to have music "curated" is like...... hasn't the internet made this not a problem? oh right, "For us, music isn’t just something we listen to, it’s a part of us."

"It’s not as simple as three nameless friends getting together in a barn..."

nothing is ever that simple.

seems more likely that people would pay a monthly fee to get new mixes of songs for their ipod or phone...wait, that's what people are doing. yeah, getting one record in the mail every month is dumb. just looking at that site will make someone sign up for spotify.

i do hate hate hate this clean white "elegant" frank&oak/vinylme/etc web site design style

a throwback to an era when friends would get together just to play music

a throwback to an era when friends had their own album to do

seriously, tho, this design aesthetic is much worse than teal+orange

isn't it just some standard template? like a default in webstorebuildr or whatever?

yeah, but it's like ye old templates with added moustaches

i'm having a hard time articulating my feeling towards this style/standard template.

i just associate it with the trend of san serif fonts in food packaging -- so neutral i just tune out any aesthetic quality it seeks to convey

i'm having a hard time articulating my feeling towards this style/standard template.

keep going, you're almost there. this is important.

http://i.imgur.com/Ah2wtYl.jpg

GROWNASS MEN

woah this band looks so different from bon iver, so much more chill and grownass

http://www.billboard.com/bbbiz/photos/stylus//1300859-Touring-Conf-Brand-Bushmills.png

Justin Vernon is totally a shady scam or other silly business idea to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors.

so sad they didn't call themselves Grownass Brothers

The Growbros

They would have totally done the whole "Brothas" thing too, most likely.

Feel like they just sold their banjo and mandolin, want to get back into some real rock like Springsteen and Billy Joel

Vnyl me with "real rock", please.

Hope you like Greg Kihn

As long as it's on vinyl, I love love LOVE it!

I posted a month ago about a dispute with this seller on Discogs who sent me the wrong record and then has refused to deal with me (e.g. he said "I have someone who handles discogs for me - email them" but then won't give me that person's email address).

I've opened up a PayPal dispute but they give the seller ages to respond and it hasn't happened yet.

So I just had a (maybe stupid) question about Discogs feedback: If I give him Poor feedback, can't he also just respond with Poor feedback? I have a perfect record and don't want to tarnish it because he's been a dick, you know?

He can, but you can then ask Discogs to remove it if you can prove the seller is acting poorly.

Paypal disputes have two stages, you need to manually move it on to a claim if they don't respond after a week or so.

Ah, thanks. Yeah, the second stage of the PayPal dispute doesn't kick in for a month it looks like. I've put it in the calendar.
It's all such a hassle for $20 but it's the friggin' principle of the thing!!

Sorry, you can no longer leave feedback on this order because it is older than 90 days.

Argh

So yeah, it was Mike Simonetti.

Don't buy from him. Totally ripped me off.

Feedback: You are a creep.

if i remember, you are not alone with this type of groove, as there was stuff like this mentioned on an old IDIB thread.

shame, as he seemed pretty cool when i had said hello and ordered some IDIB stuff.

lol nailed it

saw this from him so many times on the old southern lord doom metal forum
and vlv

gawker needs to report on this

true and interesting imo

i have friends who had bands on his label that got ripped off big time by him

― sarahell, Friday, June 26, 2015 11:37 AM (1 month ago

this is my kinda truth in advertising. from a Discogs record listing:

Record and sleeve have seen some parties and some fights! Oi! You've been warned, rocknroller! NO INSERT! SLEEVE IS COMIN' APART! POPS AND SCRATCHES! If you play it at 45 you can barely hear them

http://www.fridaymusic.com/music/vinyl.html
I just can't get my mind around this.

thats a joke right

180 gram, dude!

Dig a little and you find it's not a real record store, but astroturf e-commerce for the Warner Music Group.

Good looking out.

$31.98 LPs are the new $17.98 CDs

looooooooooooool

Vinyls are BIGGER so they are worth MORE MONEY, amirite?

how long until 180 gram CDs?

the thirty dollar bin

lol