i saw this the other night and was wondering why people were waiting in line to check out all the godawful thrift store records, assumed it had to be some sort of speakeasy popup http://throughtherecordshop.com/
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 27 January 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
i would go hang out there. bring my own cigarettes and booze and then get all indignant as i tell them i have no money; condescendingly requesting "waltz for debby" the whole time.
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 27 January 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
"NO, NOT THE QUINTET VERSION. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE IT, DO YOU??!!?"
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 27 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
didn’t we do jazz cafes recently? On the audiophile thread?
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 27 January 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Coming back full circle on this thread, VNYL is all over my X feed these past few days. Jason Gore from Best Show is on a tear after discovering how big of a rip off these guys are (sending absolute shit albums and auto-charging each month without sending any records at all) and has been calling them out on X - resulting in both the company account and the CEO straight up blocking him.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 20:23 (seven months ago) link
will never forget how i criticized VNYL on instagram and the owner very creepily followed me
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 20:28 (seven months ago) link
VIVNL really do have a terrible attitude/business model. They’re the only store I know that goes out of their way to click like on tweets that badmouth other record stores. Straight up goofy, nothing better to do, behavior. How do they still exist?
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 20:48 (seven months ago) link
*VNYL obviously
I was harsh on vinyl me please upthread when they started, probably just unfairly associating their early model with how VNYL was run. But they seem to generally do a pretty good job right? I'm still not into the subscription model for this kind of thing, but a couple good friends of mine are pretty pleased with what they offer.
As far as VNYL, I think they pivoted pretty quickly from their early thrift store scraps model and into record label castoffs, and they take advantage of people's ignorance as far as music on vinyl goes. I still think that's their market.
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:13 (seven months ago) link
yeah VMP is solid, I even own a few
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:15 (seven months ago) link
(bought second hand, not gonna subscribe)
the name “vinyl me, please” is horrible + some of the marketing patter has weird men’s magazine “art of manliness” vibes. But yeah, their reissues are good, afaik, seems like they pay attention to making a good quality product.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:37 (seven months ago) link
yea I hate the name of the company but the two pressings I have from them are really great, packaging and all
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:42 (seven months ago) link
They do a nice job. The vinyl is nice. The heavy tip on jackets are super duper nice.
I did a mini subscription when the releases aligned with a few I wanted that were otherwise really hard to get or expensive, but I wouldn't do it all the time. Theres been a couple I've missed, and wish I hadn't as on the secondhand market they got really expensive.
I guess I'm not really a fan of the hype beast vinyl market.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Thursday, 28 September 2023 05:02 (six months ago) link
I'd subscribe if I was in the US and had more $$$s - I roll my eyes at a lot of what they press up, and their box sets have been very overpriced and kind of baffling ("Here's 8 or so random Herbie Hancock records, $500 pls"), and I find the sleevenotes often unedifying and the patter in the copywriting aggravating. But their pressings are good, they care about the final product, and they often are repressing things that I'd like to own. They put Buhloone Mindstate back in print a good few years before the DLS reissues earlier this year (sadly both reissues were only 1LP and missing a bunch of tracks, but whaddya gonna do), and I just picked up a second hand copy of their reissue of Kamaal The Abstract, which looks and sounds lovely.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 28 September 2023 09:16 (six months ago) link
I have a Lee Scratch Perry one and a Jorge Ben one, both excellent and stupidly expensive as OGs
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 14:39 (six months ago) link
I didn't know they'd pressed up Africa Brasil. I may have to hunt that down...
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 28 September 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link
okay how much are they paying you guys...
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:03 (six months ago) link
lol
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:09 (six months ago) link
Still not enough to afford their postage to the UK!
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link
also re: VNYL, i'll never forget chaki's invaluable investigative reporter visit to the store. god, what a dire company. i'm surprised there's anyone active at that company to block Jason Gore on twitter, their instagram and Facebook have been dormant for a long, long time.
― omar little, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:39 (six months ago) link
Dank Deals and other super bodacious offers to take advantage of before time runs out
― Evan, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:40 (six months ago) link
haha yes the whole discovery of the VYNL model was a great ILM moment and Chaki's video the cherry on top
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:54 (six months ago) link
"Vibe system?!!"
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 29 September 2023 02:17 (six months ago) link
I actually like the sound of this, if not the name...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/18/uk-vinyl-hotel-vinyl-pimp-hackney-london
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:49 (five months ago) link
God, awful name.
― houdini said, Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:45 (five months ago) link
Depending on his pricing and overall temperament might be accurate
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link
He is described as a "serial entrepreneur"
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:00 (five months ago) link
the idea sounds fun. honestly hard to get past the name.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 20 November 2023 15:41 (five months ago) link
foul name
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:09 (five months ago) link
I'd be nervous about finding enough vinyl to meet the quota that I'd actually want but I guess it must really be a treasure trove...?
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2023 18:06 (five months ago) link
nope, nothin but lawrence welk and feels so good, far as the eye can see
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Monday, 20 November 2023 18:19 (five months ago) link
Bed N' Buyer's remorse
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2023 18:37 (five months ago) link
they're a long established discogs seller with about 10k records listed. prices are not bad for london:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/Vinyl.Pimp.London/profile
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 19:33 (five months ago) link
i first encountered them through the record sweep series on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS53xtCgzRE
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 19:35 (five months ago) link
most expensive thing they have from my wantlist is an original white label of this for £85 (which is way more than i'd want to spend on it, but call that one the cost of the hotel for the night i guess):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv8fS3Nt1S8
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
only 2 from my wantlist. guess I'm not staying there
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 20 November 2023 20:27 (five months ago) link
tbf that's hardly the point of digging
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 November 2023 20:35 (five months ago) link
it is indicative of whether or not they cater for your tastes though. they are dance music specialists really, they mostly get stock through buying dj collections iirc
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:43 (five months ago) link
skot was saying on the record store thread that his brother used to do overnight lock-ins at his store, so it's not a new idea, apart from the bit about giving people a bed
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:45 (five months ago) link
a few years ago some guy bought like 500 LPs and 12s off me cos he was stocking up his vinyl guest house. hope he wasn't planning on selling them for money though, cos they really were complete dogshit
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:48 (five months ago) link
Don't worry he abandoned the guesthouse idea and shifted his energies to a more breakthrough concept called "vnyl.org"
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2023 21:15 (five months ago) link
a lot of my best scores had been because the owner "specialized" in something that wasn't of much interest to me, and therefore neglected what i found interesting
the whole point of digging is that it's fun because of the uncertainty of what you might encounter
and if their entire collection is already listed on discogs then it doesn't seem very fun to me
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 November 2023 21:16 (five months ago) link
Ha yes, that is very true! But you can't always count on finding good things in those stores, and if there's a £250 minimum spend at stake, you do need some sort of guarantee that you'll find a fairly substantial chunk of things you're into
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 21:39 (five months ago) link
i've known a couple folks who have done overnight lock-in/sleepover digs and must confess i've never really understood the point, aside from the fact that they were DJs who kept overnight vampire hours anyway. if it was done up like a really cool space where you could hang with your friends and listen to records all night i can see it being fun, but this "hotel room" just looks like a mattress on some lofted plywood and a couple cheap chairs in a corner, plus you can't play music after midnight? no thanks.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 November 2023 21:43 (five months ago) link
if i wasn't completely broke i'd definitely be into it. rummaging through 10,000 records that you've mostly never heard before, no real time pressure and you can bring your own beer? i'd be like a pig in shit tbh
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2023 22:13 (five months ago) link
it sounds really fun in a dorm sleepover kind of way, i’d definitely enjoy taking drugs and doing this if I could also listen to the records
― brimstead, Monday, 20 November 2023 22:26 (five months ago) link
My 17 year old coworker told me yesterday she spent $100 at Goodwill and I was like right on, hope you got a nice coat or boots or something. Then she told me she bought a “Grease vinyl” for $30. Goodwill in on the grift!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:10 (five months ago) link
$30!
― omar little, Monday, 20 November 2023 23:56 (five months ago) link
Thrift stores are vinyl grift stores now. My local has all their LPs at $4.99 -- it's the cheapest in the area. But it's all dollar bin fodder.
― omar little, Monday, 20 November 2023 23:58 (five months ago) link