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

there's definitely this move to reissue "everything" on vinyl and sell it for $20

this is like 2/3rds of the stock at 1-2-3-4 Go!/Lost Weekend now

i'm not into burger records ppl

some of the bands on it are ok ... used to share a practice space with one or two ... they practiced a lot

i wish i could be fancy like whoever owns that wombleton store in LA. they take fancy record buying trips to europe and then come back and sell them for fancy prices. so fancy!

there's definitely this move to reissue "everything" on vinyl and sell it for $20

this is like 2/3rds of the stock at 1-2-3-4 Go!/Lost Weekend now

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 26, 2015 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i find it v. weird when records that are widely available in a range of conditions (including nm) are reissued only vinyl for like $25. like that everly brothers record that was selling at some recent record store day. it's the best record ever IMO but it's also not at all hard to find an original copy.

i mean if it works for the labels, then more power to them. i'm surprised they can sell enough of those things though... i wonder what the break-even point is. 1,000 copies? 500? fewer?

yeah I have no idea, it's just weird to be faced with a wall of records and the majority of them are canonical (or semi-canonical) reissues priced at $25 and up

like oh there's Five Leaves Left for $25 why

to be honest i find the whole "vinyl revival" fairly mystifying so this is just one facet of that..

people like new things.

new things are shiny.

sorry, but if you really like new things, maybe try buying records from somebody who hasn't been dead since 1974.

yeah, and maybe give yourself a new name, buy a new car, drive it to a new record store in New Buffalo, take it to your new house, and play it on your new stereo. maybe then I'll believe that you really like new things.

wait, was this thing mentioned?

Special-edition vinyl delivered to your door complete with an album-inspired 12" x 12" art print and custom cocktail pairing recipe. Discover amazing albums and build your vinyl collection.

http://vinylmeplease.com/how-it-works/

Translucent green 150g color vinyl
Custom Super Ape stencil
VMP logo on back of jacket
12” x 12” original art print from renowned Nigerian artist & MoMA inductee, Lemi Ghariokwu (Fela Kuti, Bob Marley)
Original cocktail recipe courtesy of Sean Kenyon, Williams & Graham, Denver, CO

ben webster is like: don't look at me. i don't know what i'm doing here.

http://vinylmeplease.com/archive/

$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