Well I did get quite excited a few months ago when I found a copy of the 12" single for En Vogue's My Lovin for a dollar at my local thrift store amongst the usual Barbra Streisand and Nana Mouskouri albums.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
En Vogue's My Lovin for a dollar at my local thrift store amongst the usual Barbra Streisand and Nana Mouskouri albums
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
It'll still get sold to venture capitalists anyway.
Very true. Very asinine.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
i got 4 out of 6 on this using built in laptop speakers. nice to know i'm not deaf. definitely heard differences that were small.
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
ha, my sister just sent me that link this morning, have not tried it yet
― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
https://instagram.com/p/3K4rK0JnUB/
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Bluelissa/status/603397177977622528
oof: https://instagram.com/p/213M0_royx/
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
The De Lux thing might be even sleazier than sending people dollar bin albums?
― skip, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
so gross...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
What's sad is that people use this to argue that they don't just send worthless dollar records. "See? I got this new record too! Checkmate, naysayers!"
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
i still think those people are phony people though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
they read phony anyway. HEY GUYS, LOOK WHAT I GOT, YAY!
boz scaggs record is legit awesome, but that copy looked a little busted.
has anyone actually /listened/ to that 'de luxe' album?
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:46 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
For example, Chris needs to be told that there is a catch to this:
chrisparlamas@getghost00 I've never seen anyone get a new albumchrisparlamas@getghost00 if I see a trend. I'll get the Service back
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
rmde
On the topic of figuring out when to own music outside of her three-year old Spotify subscription, my friend Lola Pellegrino, 28, cites one of the few non-digital purchases she's made in the past five years: a Neutral Milk Hotel vinyl box set. "The sixteen-year-old fangirl was in my head when I saw the $110 box set and she was whispering, 'Buy it ... for us,'" she says of the purchase. "I think it's worth noting that when I bought it, I didn't own a record player and I still don't own one. I have never listened to it, but I don't regret buying it, either."
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Amanda Knochel @knochel_head · Jun 2 I Believe in Music- Mac Davis. It's like @getvnyl just understands me. #vnyl #vinyl
http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/243136688
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
That box set is sold out and already going for $300, probably the most sensible vinyl purchase on this thread.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 June 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That mailer costs more than that record.
― andrew m., Thursday, 4 June 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
I went to the VYNL store and it was so weird. Serious Scientology feeling in there. Chud ass records were sectioned off by "#vibes" and they were selling shit like a Walter Murphy album for $20. Nick Alt was there but he RAN in the back kitchen when he saw I was filming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BuARcGqn4
― Cory Sklar, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Haha this is so great thanks for doing this.
The store definitely creeps me out I had no idea there were so little actual... records in their record... store?
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
their dollar bin finds are unimaginative garbage
― nomar, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
not to defend this company, but god forbid people would want to purchase records because they like them, not because of how much they go for on discogs
― katherine, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
a lot of the records they send aren't bad at all but there's no reason someone should pay $25 a month for the privilege of getting some of those records. i think the store sounds pretty typical, there are lots of morons who sell thrift store junk at 10x their value and morons who will buy it, their shady deal is pretending they're curating to your specific tastes when you sign up with them, when they're actually not.
― nomar, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
people arent buying these because the like them, they are buying them because its sound that happens to exist on a vinyl disc. it absolutely does not matter what is on it. it could be a fucking goodwill tires xmas sampler.
― Cory Sklar, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Thank you for vynl reportage c!
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
their shady deal is pretending they're curating to your specific tastes when you sign up with them, when they're actually not.
― nomar, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 2:26 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and doing so in the cheapest possible way they can by sending records that cost them literally nothing to stock.
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
there's a record store in my town that is run by a total piece of shit but they do have the best selection and nice employees
anyway the point is that they have a big sign on the side of the building that says "GET PHYSICAL WITH YOUR MUSIC" which never fails to make me nauseous
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
i wonder what the maximum age you would have to be to actually be awed by the very fact of something "on vinyl".
anyone my age would have grown up with records and they would be NBD.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
i worked at a company that did that kinda targeted advertising shit once, pretty standard that they only charge for conversions so if you wanna bleed vnyl dry click it every time
― soyrev, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 1:50 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ been doing this nonstop today
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
chaki, i appreciate that you actually had the balls to kind of push back against their cultish #vibes b.s. in person.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link
Yes, especially since she knew you were taping.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
lolll nice job chaki. "Vibe system?!" brilliant.
i guess it is kind of a radically new kind of record store i've never been in before, like what if a record store only had as many records as some other kind of store that also has some records someplace, and you just sort of spread them around in concentrated pockets of fancy displays, with vast open space and a suspiciously large staff in between.
tbf i don't think anybody brought up discogs to find objective measures of record quality, but to point out that charging $25 for this stuff lathered with Lifestyle Experience cachet is a sickening scam since virtually everyone in america is within a 10-15 minute drive of thrift stores overflowing with crap-to-decent-condition copies of these records. i think it's a GOOD thing that you can find $1-2 copies of uncool 70s/80s records and discover stuff you like about them. i think it's lame, if telling and hilarious, that someone can repackage three of those at random and sell it for $25 by convincing people it's "curated" or something, or i guess by taking it for granted that none of the customers know about thrift stores.
in this sense VNYL is just the latest stage in a long, long evolution of hipster lifestyle choices to where you can have all the trappings of a #hipster, down to desiring "vinyls," without having ever been to a goodwill or a garage sale. used to be the latter kinda came with the territory. not lamenting it i guess - happy to keep the assholes away from my good hunting grounds, and there's nothing inherently authentic or true about going to thrift stores (i would defend the importance of garage sales to my values and life at length but that might need to be another thread) - but it is kinda interesting.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
lol thx
http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/maggie-magnificent/maggie-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsgaard-magnificent-seven-12.jpg
maggie g and sarsgaard
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
nooooooooooooo ;_;maggie g breakin my heart all over again
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 June 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
she's an idiot
http://boldprogressives.org/2012/09/right-wing-billionaire-wont-back-down/
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
although to be fair maybe they were there for the same reason as chaki
desiring "vinyls," without having ever been to a goodwill or a garage sale
I can't even wrap my head around this. But I spend all my waking hours on a music nerd discussion forum, so..
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:23 (eight years ago) link
― Cory Sklar, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:32 AM (Yesterday)
Totally, this is like a bottom-of-the-barrel parody of "cool" record stores. Like at "cool record stores" you get 80s new wave records and major label free jazz records that were good bargain bin staples marked up to $10. This is bargain bin for a reason stuff that no one is really making any artistic argument for its increase mark up apart from it being a vinyl record.
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
Think of the demographic of a typical City and Colour fan. They don't know any of these bargain bin records or artists. They know bands like Thursday or Brand New or Childish Gambino. That's what their record collection consists of and they say they're record collectors but when they come across these titles in thrift shops they don't really care or know what they're looking at. But when you filter them through a service where they're packaged with hashtags by people just like them it's suddenly exciting and interesting. And yes, since it's on vinyl it doesn't matter what it is.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
Think of the demographic of a typical City and Colour fan.
I'm American, I have no idea what this is.
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:47 (eight years ago) link
So now you know who VNYL is for.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:58 (eight years ago) link
people that spell color with a "u" ?
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, 11 June 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
is City and Colour a soccer team
― Jim Gillette's unused octave (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 11 June 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link
Do people who particularly fetishize the medium prefer things beat-to-hell? Like fake distressed jeans?Wondering if that's how they spin stuff like this:
https://twitter.com/ddoff/status/606923502571028480
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 11 June 2015 09:12 (eight years ago) link
fake distressed jeans tend not to be splitting apart at the seams
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 09:27 (eight years ago) link
actually fake ring wear is the fake distressed denim of vinyl right?
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link
feel like ring wear should be earned
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2015 09:53 (eight years ago) link
Only saw this thread recently. I'm the guy who posted the thread about Wax & Stamp a while ago (UK one).
Not read the entire thread but a few general questions about ours and similar models: we send out an LP and a 12" single each month for £26 inc. p+p, but we're sending out records that have been released within that month or so. Which if you think an LP costs say £13-16, and a 12" single about £8 (store price that is), then once you've factored in postage, our customers are pretty much getting the two records at what they'd cost to them in the shop. Margin comes from buying direct from the labels (mostly) or distributors (occasionally).
We don't do tailored curation.. We pick a guest selector each month who chooses their favourite release that month, and then we pick another record as well.
― beatgeneration, Thursday, 11 June 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
― let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:47 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sorry I guess I'm just mored tuned in and hip, huh. I am also American.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link