TMR’s The Vault, which bills itself as a “rarity-excavating” subscription service, launched in 2009, as a means of putting out special or unreleased material by The White Stripes, Dead Weather, Loretta Lynn and more. Obviously vinyl champion Jack White has his own record club. Price per quarter: $60 for Platinum, $20 for Gold
#DE LA SOUL VINYL ME PLEASE ARCHIVE#
We want you to love every record so much that you keep the custom box it came in.” And what if you don’t like what you get? Tough luck, but if the Numero archive is anything to go by though, chances are, you’ll be blown away.
Like some poor kid stuck in 1991, we want you waiting by your mailbox. The motive for exclusivity? “In a world of unlimited access, we’re exercising some small degree of restraint. The only access route is via the club which is strictly limited to one thousand members.
The records aren’t available in stores, and Numero won’t be repressing them or releasing on CD. This year master archival label Numero Group label launched its own quarterly music club for ultra rarities and unreleased items only.
#DE LA SOUL VINYL ME PLEASE SERIES#
Price per quarter: $100 per series or $250 for all three series While some of the offerings out there put style over substance or reduce record buying to a text message transaction, what you’ll find below are a mixture of record labels and tastemakers that send out rare, unreleased, exclusive or just damn good records that are worth befriending your postman for.Īre you signed up to a service you love? Let us know in the comments. The basic premise tends to be the same – you sign up for a paid-subscription and in return receive records on a monthly or quarterly basis – but every service has its own flavour. With more and more people viewing vinyl as the best – and only – way to own music, a new breed of vinyl subscription services have emerged, rethinking those old school records club for the 21st century. But ultimately, there’s such a glut of music out there that it’s a no bad thing to have someone curate a selection for you every now and then – as long as you can trust the curator. Probably the next best thing is heading down a YouTube rabbit hole and racking up a huge bill on Discogs.
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