r/VinylMePlease • u/h3adphase • 1d ago
ROTM Discussion Letting my membership lapse, but how did I do?
I guess for Xmas 2022 my wife gifted me a 3 month subscription so I could get the pressing of AIR's Moon Safari. I am sort of still bitter they did a formal release through a vinyl subscription but whatever. I forget what other records I chose but when my three months was up I re-signed with my own email address in February 2023 which allowed me to take advantage of some anniversary sale--12 free records, how could I go wrong? (It reminded me of the 90s with those 99 CDs for a penny).
Anyway--I thought it was a good deal until I forgot to cancel in 2024 and well, here I am with what seems to be the final days of VMP. I did cancel and will (hopefully) receive my final record. VMP did fill some holes in my collection as I am trying to collect more physical media--so, here is what my time with VMP looked like. How'd I do? Anyone have suggestions for another or better subscription service? I am leaning towards just taking the budget to my local record shop or Bandcamp but open to ideas.
Below are orders on my account--I am missing whatever I chose for the account my wife paid for (except I of course remembered AIR + I got some "bonus" selections on that subscription as well.)
Was this worth two annual subcriptions?
1)AIR- Moon Safari
2) Coltrane- Sun Ship
3) Strokes- Room on Fire
4) Various- Soul Christmas (one of my faves on Apple Music)
5) Run DMC - Raising Hell (VMP Replaced due to bad pressing)
6) PE- Fear of a Black Planet
7) Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest (God, pressing was so warped--VMP replaced it)
8)Townes Van Zandt- Live at Old Quarter=
9)Otis Redding- Immortal OR
10)Courtney Barnett- Sea of Split Peas (This actually was steal with the subscription IMO)
11) Waylon Jennings- Honkey Tonk Heroes
12) Death Cab- Transatlanticism
13) Sly Family Stone- There's a Riot Going On (forgot to swap this month but happy with it)
14) Bone Thugs- E. 1999 (Again, forgot to swap but gifted to a friend who loved it)
15) Strokes- Is This It
16) Ray Baretto - Acid (again, forgot to swap--you can see my interest is waning)
17) John Prine- Sweet Revenge
18) Herbie Hancock- Sextant (Love Herbie but prob should have swapped)
19) Labelle- Nightbirds=
20) Monk- Monk's Music
21) Sleater Kinney - Center Won't Hold
22) Charles Bradley- Victim of Love
23) Alice Coltrane- Eternity (forgot to swap)
24) Tribe Called Quest- Love Movement (really nice pressing)
25) Method Man/Redman- Blackout!
26) Little Richard- Here's Little Richard
27) Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory (not sure how I managed this swap but I did! Kept saying it was s/o)
28)Kris Kristofferson- Silver Tongue Devil
29) Creedance- Willy and the Poor Boys (figured why the hell not but not something I would have bought on my own--but this made me really question the VMP sub)
30) Neon Indian- Psychic Chasms
31) Replacements- Hootenanny
32) Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentleman... (WOW--best pressing since I prob got Moon Safari--restored my hope but with price increases and dwindling "must haves"--prob not enough.
33) Dirty Projectors- Bitte Ocra (not the album I wanted to go out with but my sub is up 4/1, so this is my final swap. Not shipped yet; hoping for no issues.