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I have just written to VNYL.org today
I have just written to VNYL.org today, as I was horrified to find out this morning that, even though I cancelled their service in 2018, they have been charging me every single month since then. No, I didn't spot it on my statement until today : (

I signed up for a yearly subscription in Nov 2018, $273... but I never received anything, ever, and so I cancelled.

To date, they have taken from me $1172 and I have not received a single piece of vinyl. Nothing.

I'm hoping they will be honest, and prove themselves not to be thieves, and return the money for products and service never given. I will update on here what happens.

I'm a journalist and connected to the music and vinyl industries, and so I can cause them WAY more than $1172 in reputation-damage, but I'm hoping it won't come to that and that they will behave ethically.

CPL593H posted:

How do you just not notice a monthly charge on your bank statement for three years?

CPL593H posted:

And this guy just seems like a loving moron

CPL593H posted:

How do you just not notice a monthly charge on your bank statement for three years?

caligulamprey posted:

Fun fact: if by chance you saw someone sobbing like a baby when they dropped Hammond Song at the end, chances are it was probably me.

Megabound posted:

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z0331 posted:

When I took my parents turntable it came with most of their records. I focused at first on the rock and r&b stuff they had. My dad had a lot of country western/bluegrass but before I got to it I started buying my own stuff and kind of forgot about it. Finally decided to start going through it and discovering lots of good stuff and very strong mustaches.

Megabound posted:

I'm not up to the thrifting part of vinyl yet but have been building up my library by trading in a bunch of stuff that I got off my Dad that hasn't been for me. This has been over the past few months.







I've had Excellent Italian Greyhound on a lot of late, forgot just how good that album was.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Is this an ebay pick? I've been watching the MF Doom site hoping this comes back in stock but it never does

dorium posted:

https://twitter.com/qotsa/status/1572937338564800512?s=46&t=zY641xmZDozVM2dz9kCrjg
https://twitter.com/qotsa/status/1572937739267612672?s=46&t=zY641xmZDozVM2dz9kCrjg

IUG posted:

I’ve decided to not give Josh Homme any more money, but if they ever reissue Desert Sessions, it would put my commitment to the test.

Arcella posted:

My order from Light in the Attic that just showed up and I got a shipping email a few days later.

Funky Stuff fuckin whips, title says it all. The Pyramid Pieces albums are compilations, a lot of stuff with that midcentury Arthur Lyman/Martin Denny

Also Harmonica needed to be in the picture for some reason.

IUG posted:

I’ve decided to not give Josh Homme any more money, but if they ever reissue Desert Sessions, it would put my commitment to the test.

CPL593H posted:

Did he turn out to be some kind of chud or sex creep?

Arcella posted:

Yep! (partially) He and his sister are Australian Cattle Dog/Blue Heeler and Great Pyrenees mixes, at least according to the DNA site we used. Which I was surprised that you could get a pretty standard Blue Heeler coat (Cheyenne) and a Red Heeler coat from the same litter.

Arcella posted:

Yep! (partially) He and his sister are Australian Cattle Dog/Blue Heeler and Great Pyrenees mixes, at least according to the DNA site we used. Which I was surprised that you could get a pretty standard Blue Heeler coat (Cheyenne) and a Red Heeler coat from the same litter.

sporklift posted:

He's a drunk abusive rear end in a top hat.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/josh-homme-children-file-domestic-violence-restraining-order-1223802/amp/

CPL593H posted:

The only pure souls in the entertainment industry are Weird Al Yankovic and Keanu Reeves.

BigFactory posted:

Geddy Lee

CPL593H posted:

He looked at a baby with anger in his heart back in 1997.

midge posted:

Eagles of Death Metal were playing at the Bataclan during the attack in 2015. Jesse Hughes went immediately, publicly off the rails after that and Homme seemed to keep it together....perhaps not. A brief google shows he has of history being an rear end in a top hat, but it sure ramped up. There's no way your mentally getting through that without help

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Feels Villeneuve posted:

Lol I knew the Command percussion series was popular back then but I didn't know it was popular enough to get knockoffs

Fun fact these had covers by Josef Albers who was almost certainly one of the most "notable" artists to be employed to do cover art

Feels Villeneuve posted:

Lol I knew the Command percussion series was popular back then but I didn't know it was popular enough to get knockoffs

Fun fact these had covers by Josef Albers who was almost certainly one of the most "notable" artists to be employed to do cover art

petit choux posted:

come to think of it, "vegas taint" would be a good band name.

petit choux posted:

Wow never realized the art was kinda notable. There were a lot of albums put out back then that say "percussion" something somethign on the cover but don't really have that much drumming involved, because my very white ancestors wanted to believe the appropriate place for music is a ballroom. So hiring a percussionist to their 32-piece string ensemble was really groundbreaking as far as they could tell.

I just won a small auction of albums some of which were old percussion-themed myself.







Nowadays, people remember Freddie Hubbard, not Gene Krupa. But Krupa and Buddy Rich were some of the only jazz drummers I learned about because I lived in a pretty whitebread part of the country, where you would never even learn the name of a guy like Freddy Hubbard. ED: Also one of the reasons I don't get their records too much, that and the Vegas taint. I don't know about Krupa but Buddy Rich was very much a Vegas kinda performer.

BigFactory posted:

Freddy Hubbard was a trumpet player.

Edit: And it’s rare that drummers were band leaders in general, regardless of race. Rich and Krupa were tremendous drummers and would have been famous anyways, but being white and playing a more “pop” style of jazz helped. Max Roach and Tito Puente were both drummers and bandleaders, and both are really famous. Tony Williams was a bandleader for part of his career, too. But mostly drummers were sidemen and sidemen don’t get the top billing.

petit choux posted:

Oh, beg your pardon, I was thinking Herbie Hancock. Yeah, Freddy Hubbard wouldn't have been mentioned either where I grew up, in favor of trumpeters Doc Severinson and Maynerd Ferguson if you're in a Vegas kinda mood and Al Hirt if you were in the mood for dixieland, or Herb Alpert if you were in the mood for something south of the border.*

* not consigned to the dustbins of history, but the record bins at Goodwill, which is the next best thing