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

Really wish I had thought of this first. Records are under a dollar at most thrift stores if you go on the right days, profit margins are probably insane.

Sure, when you're scamming people.

just ask the guy at the counter, maybe.

Yeah, imagine that: ask a human being.

In my experience, most record store employees will be ecstatic to give recommendations.

Still waiting for something, anything from VNYL clowns.

They've been selling t-shirts on Instagram - $35, no returns. they definitely seem dedicated to the #keepem business model.

somehow that infuriates me even more than the "sell a beat up dollar record for $8" scam

Wayne: Exqueese me? Have I seen this one before? "Frampton Comes Alive"? Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of "Tide".

I recommend "Seven Year Itch."

Oh my god.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2vb3qqx.jpg

File under #BlueEyedSshole

http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/89/8937/49AR300Z/posters/alex-gregory-the-two-things-that-really-drew-me-to-vinyl-were-the-expense-and-the-inco-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg

uh Dire Straits is still $4

After tweeting multiple times per day for weeks, the @getvnyl twitter has been silent since May 15.

decapitated by the high velocity discus toss of rancid Englebert Humperdinck platters

one day after this thread was started, hmmm...

they live

https://instagram.com/p/3HnuJGHeux/?taken-by=getvnyl

it's so great how they share pics of vinyl records they'll never make available to their subscribers on instagram

subscribers will never get brand new in any sense

some good comments to that effect on the 'gram, lol #vnyl

It'll still get sold to venture capitalists anyway.

In true #vnyl fashion, the critical comments on that Instagram picture have all been deleted since this afternoon. If you look at some of the most recent Tweets from subscribers, they've received newer records -- at least two people got records by some band called DeLuxe (no idea), but then you can't see if the other two are Firestone Xmas records or what.

the other two are Julian Lennon's Valotte and the McDonald's Menu Song floppy

From what I can tell, De Luxe is a new, potentially unsigned, band that's given Vnyl promos.

http://www.discogs.com/Fugees-Featuring-A-Tribe-Called-Quest-Busta-Rhymes-And-Forte-Rumble-In-The-Jungle/release/184689

Someone got that. Granted, it's $.54 on Discogs.

From what I can tell, De Luxe is a new, potentially unsigned, band that's given Vnyl promos.

amazing

xp $.54 for the cd. it's a respectable $4 for the 12". Only 100% markup? a #vnylscore!

The 12" single play makes a lot of sense for #vnyl b/c a) like the chud they've been sending out, 90s singles are fairly plentiful at thrifts or wherever they're sourcing this stuff and b) millenial record noobs could very well get excited about something like an I Believe I Can Fly 12" (16 for sale from $1.95 - discogs). This guy is a genius.

Yes 90s singles are everywhere. I am kicking myself daily for passing up a Destiny's Child vinyl I saw a month ago. It was less than $2!

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.

En Vogue's My Lovin for a dollar at my local thrift store amongst the usual Barbra Streisand and Nana Mouskouri albums

It'll still get sold to venture capitalists anyway.

Very true. Very asinine.

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

ha, my sister just sent me that link this morning, have not tried it yet

https://instagram.com/p/3K4rK0JnUB/

https://twitter.com/Bluelissa/status/603397177977622528

oof: https://instagram.com/p/213M0_royx/

The De Lux thing might be even sleazier than sending people dollar bin albums?

so gross...

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!"

i still think those people are phony people though.

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?

https://instagram.com/p/3K4rK0JnUB/

― 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 album
chrisparlamas
@getghost00 if I see a trend. I'll get the Service back

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."

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

That box set is sold out and already going for $300, probably the most sensible vinyl purchase on this thread.

https://twitter.com/Bluelissa/status/603397177977622528

― Frank 4ad (NickB), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That mailer costs more than that record.

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

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?

their dollar bin finds are unimaginative garbage

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

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.