unknown pleasures

What really has me excited is Iced Tea Season…

59 minutes ago, alwaysopenmouth said:

Cool, this goes to show that it’s not worth feeding the scalpers on Discogs. We just have to be patient and monitor the threads. 

I’d hardly call people selling 20+ year old indie albums scalpers. I mean, it’s not like they’re flipping the UO variant of something and listing on eBay while they’re still in preorder.

These things are long out of print, highly regarded classics. That’s basically any good used record store’s bread and butter.

…what the hell? I would think that’s pretty obvious?!

Yes, if only one do Waterloo.

End Of An Ear is a close second but not as large or centrally located.

Ok, which one of you guys got it?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-owned-by-martin-shkreli-11627411669

10 hours ago, OldKentuckyShark said:

These reissues were curated by J Spaceman which includes choosing the covers.  I’m not going to argue with him on those.  But I also understand those not wanting to double dip after getting the VMP one

How could you argue with the creative mind behind such album cover masterpieces as this?

Always a shame when these new kids on the block like Rough Trade (Est. 1976) start jumping on the vinyl bandwagon and screw stuff up so royally.

Leave it to the professionals, guys…

5 minutes ago, al-naafiysh said:

In addition to supply and demand being the main culprit, Discogs creates an additional price hike on a lot of records by showing the pricing history as just 3 numbers on each release page.

In my experience I think this actually works the other way because the lower priced copies (missing covers, water damaged, otherwise unplayable) set a “floor” people look at and also drop the average.

I guess it goes both ways, though; probably for rarer releases the price is inflated by the “low/average/high” history and for more common releases it hurts prices.

Yup, this is all part of the forbidden dance know as The Mystery of the Hobby.

32 minutes ago, MachoHommeRandallSauvage said:

From what I've gathered, all 2000 were signed with the paper bag. So...the QR code is pretty much it for $11 extra.

It gets worse and worse…

5 minutes ago, dreamover said:

Wait wait wait... 

So this edition of this record is available for $27.99 to anyone who wants it (limited to 2000).

Or it's available as part of a $39 subscription, but you didn't know you were getting it?

 

LOL

It seems like the $39 version is signed, ships with a QR code for some exclusive digital content, and also - unlike the people that bought the $27.99 version - you never asked for it specifically, they just sent it to you.

18 minutes ago, craigeduk said:

Nope the sleeve is just the same as the one you can order from RT (UK or US) as their exclusive variant (including the signed paper sleeve part). And the signed paper sleeve is part of other exclusive variants in the UK as well.

 

So its just the extra wheel / QR stuff that's exclusive to this club by the look of it

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

If that’s the case then I can understand the complaints a little more - it sounds like it’s basically an overrun of an existing variant that they just got signed, and then you get some digital content.

Not nearly as “special” as they were pushing…

10 minutes ago, The Fuck Whisperer said:

This 100% read as releases that have never been on vinyl being pressed exclusively for RT in the beginning. If it's really just exclusive variants that's probably the nastiest thing I've seen in the vinyl sub game since VNYL.

I don't know, to me it always sounded like exclusive variants but admittedly an exclusive color and not just special packaging.

But still, the emphasis in the beginning was the packaging (the wheel, whatever that is, the special printing, etc) and the interactive/social stuff so it doesn't seem like it's too far from what I was understanding.

You're still getting a limited color in a sleeve that no one else offers with a load of bonus content for what, like $10 more than the standard release? Doesn't sound like that bad a deal to me but again, without seeing a regular version in one hand and this Super Special Rough Trade version in the other it's hard to compare. 

The vagueness around what the actual problem is makes it really difficult for me to sympathize with the members, they're making a big deal out of a one-word edit to the site which at the heart of it doesn't change the language too much in my opinion:

7 minutes ago, youspinmeround said:

That is one hell of a bump

8 minutes ago, HeartSwells said:

Nah, just like how US buyers get charged sales tax, if you're selling something to the UK or EU they'll get charged VAT. It'll be done automatically so nothing to do on your end, but does mean you might see a drop in UK/EU sales as they'll be charged 20% more.

Thanks! That’s what I guessed, I was just a little confused because I thought I’d seen international sales in the past charged a tax, but maybe it was outside of UK/EU.

The Beatles sure had it right when they wrote Taxman!

5 minutes ago, Derek™ said:

Checks out.

True.

Two years ago when they sent out the initial email about taxes, I not only read the whole thing but started this thread on the subject.

The amount of f’s I give about anything since COVID has decreased dramatically…

So I got some Discogs email today about UK/EU taxes but can’t be bothered to read the whole thing.

If I’m in the US, is it anything I should be aware about?

5 hours ago, SNEAKORDS said:

2 LPs of the WW theme guitar riff and women ululating. That's all I remember of that movie.

record looks nice though.

I liked the NO trailer. They should have just left it at that. 

4 hours ago, Wasda Deelwifkramer said:

The signed standard version is sold out on TTS. I wonder how many of the 13,000 will be signed. 

I estimate it takes 10 seconds to sign a copy, so working 8 hour days would take around a week to get 13,000 albums signed if you take an hour lunch.

I’m confident each and every one of those 13,000 will be legibly autographed. Yes sir, totally confident.

5 hours ago, lostcrimes said:

Tell me how you feel now lol

I'm too busy waiting for the "Walmart Vinylmania" edition of Deceiver.

14 hours ago, crossedoutname said:

This thread 4 months later …..

”anyone get shipping confirmation?”

You know any preorder that makes you check a box to acknowledge delays is going to make for great future reading.

12 minutes ago, bear801 said:

Cheaper than eBay honestly lol 

 

 

There’s a couple of things I passed on this morning from UK shops because of postage that I ended paying the same or more for from US sellers.

You’d think by now I’d learn my lesson and just buy the things I want when I first see them…