Vinyl Me, Please: What Went Wrong

I will admit, 100%, that this is driven by schadenfreude - a bit of pleasure derived from someone else's misfortune. I will also admit that I have no reason to feel such a way! I've got nothing against anyone involved in this story personally or otherwise, I'm just enjoying the drama.

If you have not been following, this Stereogum story on Vinyl Me, Please: What Went Wrong is a great place to start. The TLDR is; a vinyl subscription service known for high-quality, highly curated releases decided to open their own manufacturing plant in Denver and basically everything crashed and burned from there. The company overspent, the existing vinyl orders were never fulfilled and board members were expelled. High drama!

It looks like that drama may have a light at the end of the tunnel tho as VNYL has acquired VMP and will likely clean things up. If you're not familiar, VNYL is a different vinyl subscription service but they do not make their own records, they serve as a direct to consumer distributor. They have purchased several yk Records titles in the past and it's been a real boon.

Be interesting to see how it all shakes out in 6 months! I hope customers get their money back or their products or both. Best of luck to VNYL (sincerely) and my apologies for enjoying this delicious drama maybe a little too much.