Test Pressings
For every project produced by VMP, our staff reviews plain black test pressings to ensure that its sonics and pressing quality are up to our high standards. Once these test pressings are approved, our partner pressing plants begin pressing our projects on whichever vinyl colorway we’ve chosen. The approved test pressings are then filed into a storage locker in Denver, Colorado, where they’ve been sitting since we got our first tests in 2016.
Over the years, we’ve accrued over 2,000 sets of test pressings, and instead of letting them sit untouched in storage, only heard by one or two staff members, we’re making these ultra-rare pressings available for the first time ever. Here’s your chance to cosplay as a VMP staffer and hear these albums as they were before they made it into the world as a ROTM, Anthology, or Store release.
Available in each product line — Classics, Country, Anthology (separated by discrete album), and Store Exclusives— and including each disc of multi-disc albums, you can own a piece of randomly selected VMP history.
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