Pop quiz, hot shots...

[mars.shosh1n]

You love vinyl.
You want to support vinyl where possible and feasible.
You spot an opportunity to score 50 fresh plates off a good label for less than $200.
It seems like a good deal, so you go for it.

You find that every single plate has an extremely annoying static sound pressed into the vinyl, particularly noticeable during every single breakdown. You know it's not your setup because you break out one of your bajillion other records, and it sounds fine.
You message the label repeatedly to understand what happened, and to get better copies or a refund.
You receive nothing in return.

What do you do?

[RDRCK]

Rant on a forum?

Seriously though, I would give all the records a wet wash. If that doesn't fix it, I would just keep trying to contact them. If still nothing after an appropriate amount of time, chalk it up as a loss

[Scott Michael]

Switch to a DVS, pay half the price for a MP3 and not deal with crap pressings.

[DJ Nada]

Find a better email address to spam your complaints to.

[Capitan]

I'd use the plates to eat my dinner off and stick to playing records on my turntables.

I've found that the china in the plates does lead to static.

[manoaboi]

I'd say you try to find as many contacts as possible with the organization you purchased from and let them know what happened. Also, just curious, was it the label themselves or some other distributor you purchased from? The label may have no idea this happened and might not have great communication - but they might also actually be willing to fix the problem if they did know, and it might not ultimately be their fault.

If they don't do anything, you hold them responsible and trash them online in every way you can (yelp, djf, facebook, etc.)

Supporting vinyl as a medium and labels that use it is one (awesome!) thing, but you are also a customer and you paid for a good from them, a seller. They are not a charity, and if they are distributing shitty vinyl, then you're not really supporting vinyl anyway right?

[mars.shosh1n]

Also, just curious, was it the label themselves or some other distributor you purchased from?

Straight from the label's web site, as promoted by their facebook page.

[Capitan]

I'd use the plates to eat my dinner off and stick to playing records on my turntables.

I've found that the china in the plates does lead to static.

Thanks to whoever gave me neg rep for this post.

Once again, someone who won't put their name to it.

Neg rep for a having a joke?

There really are some sad, sad people on this forum.

[Jonno Soccio]

Switch to a DVS, pay half the price for a MP3 and not deal with crap pressings.

He said he loves vinyl and wants to support it??

The "half the price" thing always bugs me. Its half the price because you are getting a computer file that is worth absolutely nothing.

I was studying recently and was short of cash. I managed to sell some of my old vinyl that I never play anymore on discogs
for a tidy profit. Some went for the price I paid, some double the price and a few up to five times what I originally paid. Try
that with an mp3....

[mars.shosh1n]

Thanks to whoever gave me neg rep for this post.:

Mawww sorry to hear that. Wasn't me, I got a chuckle out of it. Reminds me of:

He said he loves vinyl and wants to support it??

This.

FWIW, I switched almost exclusively to Serato SL-1 about 7 years ago or so, during my broke-ass-college-kid-phase. Since exiting that phase, this was just one of my most recent attempts to support a label a like by buying (a lot!) vinyl directly from them.

Beyond all this, I just feel like shady mcshaderson who's making a killing off selling bogus vinyl is further deteriorating our otherwise dying vinyl scene. Makes me quite sad.