10/7/2023 0 Comments Vinyl club chicago![]() As I grew up I started getting more interested in vinyls. That was my first experience with vinyl and listening to records. I think he paid me a dollar per record if I would take the vinyl and convert it to a CD. It was right about the time that CD burners came out. MF: My dad had a huge collection of vinyls, probably a couple of thousand records. SB: How did your fascination with vinyl start? That’s something that as we have scaled it has required more time and attention. ![]() The difference between a really great experience with a product and just an OK experience is a fine line. We want to make sure that every single person that joins Vinyl Me, Please has a really great experience with us. It’s one thing to say to 500 people, but it’s another to say that for 8,000 people. We spend a lot of time and energy thinking about ways we can do that. TB: We want Vinyl Me, Please to be the kind of music club that people get super excited about. It’s already surpassed all of our expectations of how big it could get. We just thought that it would be cool if we did this thing and then we decided to do it. We didn’t have too many high aspirations. MF: It really just started as an experiment. We launched with 12 customers and didn’t have any advertising money or anything, but we grew to about 300 customers after a year. Vinyl Me, Please definitely started as a hobby that we just did on nights and weekends for at least the first year of the business. We started looking for vinyl clubs to help us with that. At the same time we wanted to start getting into vinyl more than we had been. TB: Matt and I were working at a different startup but spent a lot of our time in the office talking about music. SB: Tell me about starting the company… How have you been able to make a niche offering in a niche market a sustainable business? ![]() We talked with Matt and Tyler about their love of music and resurrecting the record club for a modern audience. They feature small and large artists, including offering a limited edition mint green pressing of the most critically- acclaimed album of 2014, The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream last August. As the club has grown they’ve been able to offer limited-edition presses of the records, a huge deal in the record-collecting world. Fiedler, Barstow and the three others that make up their staff pick out the records themselves. So, they started their own and what began at the beginning of 2013 as a record club with 12 people has turned into a large online community of vinyl aficionados.įor a fee of $23 a month, Vinyl Me, Please sends you their record of the month. They were looking for a record club to join to help build their personal record collections, but had trouble finding one. It wasn’t necessarily a new idea as much as it was a repackaging of an old idea for a modern audience. Matt Fiedler and Tyler Barstow were a couple of music-obsessed twentysomethings in Chicago working for a startup when they came up with an idea.
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