I started with CD unboxings and later moved on to vinyl unboxings and album reviews. My YouTube channel has been quite a success for me. You do a lot of unboxing and reaction videos for new music releases. I also like that CDs are affordable and take up less storage compared to vinyl. There’s something special about owning and having an album in your hands compared to just hitting play on your phone. Not only that but the packaging and the things that come with it make it worth it. The sound quality of a CD compared to streaming is so much better, especially when you have the equipment for it. I didn’t even own a CD player at that time. I saw the CD at my local FYE at that time for like $10 and instantly picked it up without hesitation. The first CD I ever bought was Ye by Kanye West. A lot of my favorite albums came out that year. Ricardo Nava: I started collecting CDs in 2018, which was a memorable year for me. In this installment of 360°Sound‘s long-running CD Junkies series, Nava discusses his favorite albums, the advantages of the CD format, and his thoughts on what the future holds.ģ60°Sound: How long have you been collecting CDs? Do you remember the first CD you ever bought? He’s a big fan of hip-hop and R&B and has been collecting CDs for the last five years. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, the 21-year-old can be seen on the platform nearly every week reviewing new albums on CD and vinyl. VMP users are also on the VMP Subreddit.Ricardo Nava is the man behind the popular YouTube channel which has racked up over a million views. Some former forum members have started a new vinyl forum here. If you have any general feedback, or if you need help with a specific issue, use can I go to keep up with the people on the forum? Our product team conducts beta tests from time to time, and we’ll continue to do this and make sure these opportunities are known to members. How can I give feedback about VMP? A big benefit of the forum was the amount of feedback we got from everyone. This is not indicative of VMP going anywhere, and while we recognize this as a bummer, we are confident we’ll be able to do much more for the entire community in the long term. Your continued support, loyalty, and commitment to VMP is what gives us the ability to continue to pursue this dream. Many of you are already a part of the VMP Subreddit and we encourage others to join as well. We sincerely hope the many relationships that have been built within this forum can continue, and we encourage you to wrap up any conversations you’re having in other threads and DMs while there is still an opportunity. We are thinking a lot about the exact form VMP’s online community will take moving forward and plan on ensuring it is more cohesively integrated into the digital experience as well as IRL.Ĭam, myself, and a few others will be active in this thread until we spin everything down at 3pm on Thursday 5/16/19, after which the forum will no longer be accessible. During the pause, we’ll be spinning down the forum to give ourselves space to work on the priorities noted above, as well as rethink our community strategy as a whole. Community has always been, and continues to be, a large part of our long-term vision. We know this will come as a loss to many of you as this community has been important to everyone within it. With that said, and after much thought and consideration, we have decided to hit pause on the forum starting 5/16.

We value the forum for many reasons: the PIF thread, the audio setup thread, the sharing and discovery of new music, and feedback on how we can make VMP better. and obviously continuing to press a lot of amazing records!Īs part of this process, we’re also zooming out and thinking about the role of community as part of the larger picture, including the forum. Continuing to refine the Anthology experience.Improving the overall membership experience.And we’re not done… a few more things that we’re working on this year include: This is because we’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what VMP will be when it grows up and aligning the business around that vision. You’ve probably noticed a number of changes taking place over the last few months (discontinuing curated titles, changing to media mail for domestic shipments, launching new products like Anthology, and more).

Vinyl me please saba