{"id":505,"date":"2025-06-04T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:27:25","slug":"denvers-vinyl-me-please-sold-as-it-sues-execs-for-starting-rino-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/denvers-vinyl-me-please-sold-as-it-sues-execs-for-starting-rino-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver\u2019s Vinyl Me, Please sold as it sues execs for starting RiNo plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vinyl Me, Please, the once-thriving Denver subscription service that is\u00a0suing its former executives\u00a0for allegedly wasting company funds on a record plant, has been sold.<\/p>\n<p>VNYL Inc., a St. Louis company that owns similar subscription services,\u00a0announced Tuesday\u00a0that it had acquired Vinyl Me, Please on May 27 for an undisclosed price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have big plans to grow this community and welcome a new generation of collectors,\u201d VNYL CEO Nick Alt was quoted in a news release about the sale, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/vinyl-me-please-acquired-owners-restore-record-subscription-1236416655\/\">which was\u00a0first reported by Variety<\/a>. \u201cBut first, we have to do right by the customers who built it. That means making things right, listening closely and proving \u2014 through action \u2014 that VMP is still worth believing in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vinyl Me, Please\u00a0has been criticized\u00a0by customers in recent months for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/04\/25\/vinyl-me-please-customer-complaints-refunds-orders-lawsuit\/\">slow delivery times<\/a>. The company has apologized at times and said it was restructuring its business.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"7075675,6928210,6788992,6698762,6625696\" data-relation-type=\"curated\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/04\/25\/paramount-pressing-record-plant-lp-vinyl-gary-salstrom-david-rawlings\/\" title=\"Record pressing plant is thriving in RiNo after Vinyl Me, Please debacle\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tRecord pressing plant is thriving in RiNo after Vinyl Me, Please debacle\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/02\/21\/vinyl-me-please-scam-sites-subscription-changes\/\" title=\"Denver\u2019s Vinyl Me, Please battles scam sites while making changes to its business\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tDenver\u2019s Vinyl Me, Please battles scam sites while making changes to its business\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/10\/09\/vinyl-me-please-rino-plant-top-secret\/\" title=\"Vinyl Me, Please says execs used codename, NDAs to keep RiNo plant \u2018top secret\u2019\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title premium\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tVinyl Me, Please says execs used codename, NDAs to keep RiNo plant \u2018top secret\u2019\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/24\/fired-vinyl-me-please-execs-countersue-record-service\/\" title=\"Accusations fly as fired Vinyl Me, Please execs update lawsuit against former employer\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAccusations fly as fired Vinyl Me, Please execs update lawsuit against former employer\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/18\/vinyl-me-please-delays-price-increases-anger-members\/\" title=\"Delays and price hikes at Vinyl Me, Please anger subscribers as Denver record club struggles to right itself\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tDelays and price hikes at Vinyl Me, Please anger subscribers as Denver record club struggles to right itself\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>VMP was founded in 2012 and thrived amid a national revival of vinyl. But Rich Kylberg, a Harvard graduate and chief strategy officer at VMP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/05\/03\/vinyl-me-please-denver-fires-ceo-lawsuit-rino-plant\/\">until his firing last spring<\/a>, has\u00a0claimed in court\u00a0that the company was struggling with stagnant revenue by 2019. Vinyl Me, Please burned through $3 million in investor capital and lost $1 million in 2020, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Kylberg was fired alongside CEO Cameron Schaefer and Chief Financial Officer Adam Block for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/05\/03\/vinyl-me-please-denver-fires-ceo-lawsuit-rino-plant\/\">starting Vinyl Media Pressing<\/a>, a 14,000-square-foot plant in RiNo. Vinyl Me, Please claims they used company funds on the venture, which was independently owned by the trio.<\/p>\n<p>The fired executives\u00a0are countersuing\u00a0Vinyl Me, Please for unpaid compensation and claim they were let go to save on severance. A three-day trial is scheduled for mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen what impact, if any, VNYL\u2019s acquisition has on that case. In its news release, the new owner says it is focused on rebuilding the trust of customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVinyl customers deserve a white-glove experience, and that\u2019s far from what they\u2019ve gotten recently,\u201d said Emily Muhoberac, the new president of Vinyl Me, Please. \u201cWe intend to do that by getting back to the fundamentals of VMP with a great customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\">Get more business news by signing up for our Economy Now newsletter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinyl Me, Please, the once-thriving Denver subscription service that is\u00a0suing its former executives\u00a0for allegedly wasting company funds on a record plant, has been sold. VNYL Inc., a St. Louis company that owns similar subscription services,\u00a0announced Tuesday\u00a0that it had acquired Vinyl Me, Please on May 27 for an undisclosed price. \u201cWe have big plans to grow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}