After months of complaints that Vinyl Me, Please had stopped fulfilling orders, processing refunds, and responding to emails, the Denver-based record club has announced its liquidation. The resolution of outstanding orders—including hefty annual subscription fees—is now in the hands of a third party, Vinyl Liquidators LLC, which has taken charge of Vinyl Me, Please assets as part of an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC). Those creditors, primarily customers with unfulfilled orders and subscriptions, must file their claims before Wednesday, October 1, 2025, according to a notice viewed by Pitchfork. Any proceeds from the liquidation will then be distributed to the claimants.
Since launching in 2012, Vinyl Me, Please has offered boutique, collectible record pressings to a subscriber base paying as much as $654 a month for the highest-tier membership, as The Denver Post’s John Wenzel reported last month. The article traces the period of instability back to the firing, in March 2024, of three senior staff, whom the board of directors allege had conspired to divert company funds to build a pressing plant. Cameron Schaefer, the company’s former chief executive, said he believed that he and the two others had been fired to save on severance.
The subsequent disarray led to shipping delays, price increases, and other issues reported by members. Several customers told Wenzel that, as recently as last week, the company was still charging for memberships and listing items as in-stock, despite the apparent collapse of the platform and its customer services. Subscriber Erik “DJ Hazbro” Dunham told The Denver Post, “Needless to say this club has been a huge part of my life and ultimately shaped not just my music taste but also the way I enjoy music. To see it ending this way, basically stealing the money of the very people who had supported it over the years, cloaked in silence with no acknowledgment of the inevitable end or what is happening with orders, is heartbreaking on top of being a disgusting abuse of trust.”
Confusingly, Vinyl Me, Please emailed subscribers late last month—weeks after initiating liquidation—to say that “operations will return to normal” in mid-May. Subscribers should nonetheless have received instructions on how to file claims via email.
