Anyone else receive their 1st VNYL subscription LPs package?

You may be right, although I doubt many would pay over a buck for it.

 

A DJ still possesses a skill. People like "Nick Alt" are pulling stuff out of a crate.

 

This thread is aging like a fine brandy. Thank God for the hapless b*****d this is good reading.

 

We noticed that you like Discharge, Thelonious Monk, and King Crimson, so we hope you like these special albums we hand-curated just for you:

 

Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are.

 

Thank you for signing up with our subscription service. Looking at your Discogs page we see you like Iron Maiden, Samhain, Misfits and Black Sabbath. Rob, your curator, has carefully hand-selected the following LP's for your #head-bangingthrashallnight vibe. We are certain your will enjoy these forever (as we no longer accept returns).

 

Ah, I enjoyed this thread.

Went over to Twitter as well and was even more amused at the tweets of those 'digging' their carefully curated vnyl box and how 'stoked' they are waiting for the next one.

As mentioned above this service is perfect for teenagers who have heard vinyl is 'hip', have money and no real interest in music. Possibly no record player, not even a Crosley, but do have an instagram account.

 

I'm also finding amusement in this story; but I'm also kind of amazed by the lack of negative posts on either their Facebook or Twitter accounts. The positive reviews are pretty alarming as well.. don't they know the FTC are cracking down on this kind of thing? Based on the lack of diligence to begin with, I'm guessing not... chuckle...

 

Most of the people I looked at appeared to have previously bought their music at Urban Outfitters.

 

Since they are shilling their junk with fake postings, we should start posting the worst possible stuff imaginable with "wow, so happy with my Barbara Streisand album, mold totally came off with a little elbow grease!"

 

That Streisand album is dead on the money. It's in every dollar bin and thrift shop in America.

 

I wasn't but I'm glad you is.

 

Funny thread, though, unfortunately, at the expense of people's hard-earned money. Pretty disgraceful. This guy knows exactly what he's doing and the fact that he's pretending as if he's making a genuine effort to match people up with albums he think they'll like, or forcing his employees to do just that, is sickening. It might not have started out a scam, but it sure looks like it turned into one.

 

...and in every charity store in the UK! a worldwide bargain bin classic.

 

this has to happen. think i might go hunting for dross today, take some funky pics of me holding said dross and post it to the vnyl twitter account. it'll be well worth the £1.50 it's going to cost me for the LP's, lol

just writing my thank you note now - 'I'm totally like spunked with what came through the post today, etc, etc, etc'

 

"Took a peak at your links. Saw a ton of artists I love as well, like The Stooges, James Brown and The Sonics. Hope you dig the Leo Sayer album while you spend time with someone special".

 

I've never spent more than 20 milliseconds looking at these covers as I trawl the bins, but this one has got to be some kind of apex of cutesy 70s pop art. I can't stop looking at it and it really belongs in a frame. It's just so bizarre. Turtles playing ping pong inside a circular glass gate is enough, but then the framing on the craps table and the over-the-top facial expressions revealing the imperial gaze of the tropical frolic have seared this image into my brain.

 

I decided the guy is just trying to expand people's horizons. If you profess your tastes run to Lou Rawls, Panlo Cruise, and Jerry Vale he sends out valuable pressings of Samhain, GG Allin, and Psychic TV.

 

I looked at the RSD photos of people in the shop and it looks like they have more speakers as decorations than they do actual records. what an odd gig this guy is running.

 

The whole thing strikes me as what a 20-something hipster who had never set foot in a real music store in his life would expect them to be like based on his experiences in Hot Topic, Urban Outfitters, and social media.

 

I think I read somewhere that he came from the tech world. I kind of wonder if he's even really into music at all or if he's just a business guy looking for a market to crack. "Hey, the kids are into records these days, right?"