Read our rare interview with the reclusive shop and label here to get a better idea what they’re all about.
#SOMETHING VINYL CLUB PLUS#
You’ll receive about three per month plus some freebies, and you can fill out a questionnaire to customise what types of records you get (basically punk, international and Americana).
Keep topping up to continue receiving records and feel free to send back a record if you don’t like it. Remember the pay-as-you-go days of the Nokia 3210? Well, prolific reissue label Mississippi’s CSR club is basically that for records you send them any amount of money between $68 and $300 via cash and cheque (it sounds dodgy but it isn’t) and they’ll send you every Mississippi/Change record until your funds are tapped out. Mississippi Records’ Community Supported Records There’s also a $20 Gold membership which offers insider-y bits like pre-sale tickets, exclusive videos, merch and an exclusive record. For $60 per quarter, Platinum members receive a package that includes a 12” record, a 7” record (both on coloured vinyl) and a ‘bonus item’, usually Third Man novelty merchandise. 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
#SOMETHING VINYL CLUB 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.
#SOMETHING VINYL CLUB 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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