When VNYL launched its Kickstarter campaign on December 22, 2014, the goal was to obtain $10,000 in funding. When the campaign ended 17 days later, on January 9, 2015, the project's organizers had nearly quadrupled that goal, amassing $36,000 total. That money came in part thanks to countless news organizations who jumped on the story prior to the campaign's conclusion: Gizmodo, followed by Nerdist, Rolling Stone, AV Club, Alternative Press, Wondering Sound, Billboard, and literally dozens of others. All of these stories referred to VNYL in some capacity as "Netflix for vinyl." Consequence Of Sound did a video interview with VNYL's founder, Nick Alt, who referred to his service as being like "old-school Netflix." The idea was that VNYL's staff would hand-curate a selection of three records for each subscriber (for a fee of $24 per month), and mail out those records to those subscribers, who would have no idea what musical selections they might receive. Then, subscribers would be
Dollar bin records subscription service.
son_of_cheap_suit ... I have zero pity for anyone getting still ripped off by millenial start-up hucksters. The jig is up.
