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What You Get: Free downloads of every new release, plus access to limited, hand-numbered vinyl editions, on colored vinyl, and often with bonus material. They also have “open relationships” to release one-offs from artists like Sufjan Stevens, Japandroids, and something called Anal Trump that I am afraid to learn more about. Joyful Noise’s current roster includes No Joy, Deerhoof, and the Low Anthem. So they’re offering a “VIP Membership” that doesn’t send LPs every month, but does offer exclusive content. What It’s About: “It's no secret that the music industry is a complete financial fuckstorm,” says the website, in a statement that I have to imagine was written even before the pandemic turned the chaos up. Recent Selections: Some lucky Instagrammers just snapped up mint-condition original copies of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, Sparks’s Kimono My House, and Television’s Marquee Moon.Ĭost: Varies, obviously, but I can see myself parting with a significant amount of my money this way. The first person to post “me” in the comments gets them for a steal. But if you want some great deals, follow his Instagram feed, where he does regular “Feeding Frenzies”: free-for-alls where he posts some good recent finds. What You Get: That depends on your taste and your budget. Everything is 100 percent guaranteed, but according to him, “almost nothing ever comes back.” He emails them weekly or monthly with offers. What It’s About: Record collector Todd Drootin doesn’t run a subscription service so much as a “personalized collection-building service.” He works with clients to determine what they love, then goes in search of great-sounding pressings of their favorite records, and makes recommendations for records he thinks fall in line with their tastes.

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Recent Selections: Donnie Hathaway’s Everything Is Everything is this December’s Classics pick, November’s Essential pick is Mama’s Gun by Erykah Badu, and this month’s Hip-Hop pick is Ghostface Killah’s Fishscale.Ĭost: A three-month membership runs $119, a full year for $399. (You’ll probably have to pony up for that Hancock set, though.) What You Get: Select from one of three “tracks”-Classics, Essentials, or Hip-Hop-and get one custom-pressed LP a month in a “box full of extras.” Selections are announced before shipments go out, so if you have album envy, you can switch tracks or swap your record out for another one within the VMP shop.

They work with artists on exclusive reissues-this week sees the release of VMP Anthology: The Story of Herbie Hancock, an 11-LP box set, curated by Hancock himself-and their club stays in those lanes as well veering toward some solid, left-field choices. What It’s About: VMP is an online music retailer, plus a magazine specializing mostly in classic soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

None them offer you 12 albums for a penny, the way Columbia House used to, but there’s also no monthly dash to the mailbox to get the reply card out so you don’t get stuck with that Judds record. Here are a few really interesting vinyl subscription services. You can’t go to the record store, not even on Record Store Day, so let the experts and/or algorithms get the records to you. These services are to music what Blue Apron is to food, except you don’t have to do any work, and the product stays fresh forever. Unfortunately, the days of combing through the racks of a record store are on hold for the time being, and tracking down a good copy of a great disc on eBay just doesn’t satisfy in the same way.īut you’re in luck: A whole bunch of vinyl subscription services have sprung up online, giving members monthly shipments of fresh records tailored to their tastes. Whether you’re putting on an old favorite or taking a chance on something new, the feel and the ceremony around a real vinyl record just hits different. And truly, there is nothing better on a chilly autumn evening than the warm pop and crackle of an LP on a physical turntable. This Saturday brings us the second of this year’s three Covid-delayed Record Store Days.