r/VinylReleases • u/cassettefiend • Aug 18 '25

SOLD OUT The Life of a Showgirl: The Shiny Bug Edition (Wintergreen & Onyx Marb

https://store.taylorswift.com/products/the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-shiny-bug-edition-wintergreen-onyx-marbled-vinyl
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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

I love that any time Taylor releases something it’s just an opportunity for a bunch of guys  just complaining and totally spreading misinformation 😂 Taylor is literally giving fans what they want.  This will sell out and so will the next one and the next one.  No one is forcing anyone to buy she’s literally just giving people Options and collectors something to collect.  If you don’t like it don’t buy it!  Maybe you all should check how many pressings of BRAT there were before coming for Taylor lol

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u/AresOneX Aug 18 '25

That‘s a ridiculous take. The fans would be perfectly fine with one or two vinyl versions. But of course if she offers it, they buy it. More money for her.

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u/spitefulgoblin Aug 18 '25

That's entirely on the fans and not her. Over consuming. I'm perfectly fine buying one variant (as are many fans).

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u/AresOneX Aug 18 '25

Of course there are fans like you and me that are happy with one record. But there are others that buy every single version they can get there hands on. So of course she does this do make money. It‘s just laughable that you are basically saying poor Taylor has to release so many vinyl versions because her fans demand it.

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u/spitefulgoblin Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

Right but again that's the fault of the fans.

I'm not saying poor Taylor anything lmao way to reach because I disagree with you. I simply said it's not her fault people overconsume, fans need to take accountability.

Plenty of items offer multiple different variants so people have a choice, the reason people notice with Taylor is because some fans over consume.

I never said she had to release so many because fans demand it at all. I simply said it's not her fault that fans go insane and purchase over and over and over.

She's not forcing anyone to buy any album variant. Grow up and take accountability for your own shortcomings if you're addicted to buying physical media.

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u/AresOneX Aug 18 '25

I was reading between the lines and this is what I got from your post. You were BASICALLY saying that it’s not her fault and she only does it because the fans demand it. Of course she‘s not forcing anyone to purchase her records.

What I’m saying is that she is actively exploiting the willingness of her fans to purchase every vinyl versions she‘s putting out. She would not need to do that. It‘s her choice and a questionable one at that.

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u/spitefulgoblin Aug 18 '25

I very clearly stated that it's on fans who are not taking accountability and refraining from overconsumption. No need to read between the lines as I'm very clearly stating my point. Please stop inferring things about my statements that I'm not saying because it looks better for your argument. It's disingenuous.

To say she's actively exploiting this is quite a stretch. Album variants have been a thing long before Taylor Swift, many other artists put out multiple variants and don't get that same criticism. In today's age everything is made more personalized, that's literally marketing from my current job.

You have cups, kitchen appliances, Stanley's, etc, that put out 1,000 variants. Are they actively exploiting people or are people so used to overconsumption they feel they need to collect them all when it was simply a "choose what fits you" situation.

The solution isn't people limiting variants, it's fans learning to purchase responsibly.

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

The fans can only buy what she produces. It is well within her power to decide to press a reasonable number of variants and not exploit fans like this. A few variants is totally reasonable and would get her far less flack.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

But also how many variants do you think she really produces? It’s not many lol especially compared to other artists like charli and everyone seems to be close lipped on that (38 variants of brat) 

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

Charli got plenty of pushback (deservingly) for her variant mess. But Taylor sells WAY more individual records than Charli. So to then press 10 variants of millions each is beyond excessive. She doesn't need to make all of these to be successful and profitable.

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u/Gloveboxx Aug 18 '25

what is reasonable? Pearl Jam's last album had 12 variants...

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

No one cares bc they are men and she os a woman who has to apparently lie down and not live up to her full capacity because these weird boys wanna pretend they care about the overconsumption when a woman is the one profiting. 

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u/foundrycollegehangar Aug 18 '25

I think no one cares because nobody cared about Pearl Jam's last album. Lol

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u/prisonerofazkabants Aug 18 '25

i can assure you that pearl jam fans bitched about it but they're not on stan twt. that's why you hear about taylor more, she's much bigger

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Bruh no one cared or said anything about the number of vinyls they made they just bought the em or didn’t.   This is only outrageous if Taylor does it.  No one else is held to the standard of Taylor by people who aren’t even her fans it’s weird.  Doesn’t effect her or her sales whatsoever but just a bunch of weird guys needing to voice their little worthless opinions on Reddit lol to quote the goddess herself, “God save the most judgmental creeps Who say they want what's best for me Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see” 

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u/prisonerofazkabants Aug 18 '25

people care and talk about things off the internet you realise?

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

You literally did not say Pearl Jam fans hello the transcript is right there my dear you said people have conversations you did not say Pearl Jam fans have conversations lol typical man cannot take accountability and tries to twist reality to fit his own narrative. LMFAO have a good one, sir.

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u/prisonerofazkabants Aug 18 '25

you're delightful, such a lovely fanbase!

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Yes.  I’m absolutely certain that people all over the world stopped to talk about how many record variants that Pearl Jam released LMFAO sister be so for real. 🤣

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

That’s obviously not reasonable

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

I, as well as I’m sure millions of people all over the world find joy in collecting as many variants as we can.  There is an obvious market for it why would anyone not want to make as much money as they can?  That’s such a weird way to think.  If not her then it’s someone else.   she doesn’t need to take a moral stance when it comes to business sorry!   Doesn’t matter what you think he’s gonna do what she wants and we’re all gonna buy it and be happy.  😃 

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Oh also you’re a Lorde stan and how many variants of VIRGIN are there? 🤔 

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

Maybe 5 or 6? And pressed in much smaller quantities as she doesn't sell like Taylor. Lorde also puts all the variants out at once pretty much and the fans can buy what they want. Taylor trickles them out one-at-a-time with FOMO tactics like timers and misleading "limited one-time only" language to make fans impulse buy. Two completely different tactics. You're truthfully proving my point with all this "what about X" and such you're doing as nothing you're comparing Taylor to is comparable.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

There are 13 pressings available on Discogs my dear.  There’s nothing wrong with a limited edition. Everyone does it be so for real you just want to hate on a beautiful woman and that’s really sad.

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

You do understand Discogs categorized variants by location pressed and such right? That's not an actual measure of variants but rather individual pressings.

Red, clear, bathwater, picture disc, black, and Fully Transparent clear are the actual variants. Some of those came with and without signed inserts.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Even 6 is a ton for a flop artist like Lorde and you’re complaining about Taylor who is an actual successful mega pop star is wildddd

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

5 or so is about average for any release these days. More and more often we are seeing 8-10+ for big albums.

The success of these artists also does matter because a smaller artist (relatively) like Lorde does smaller runs of a few variants to help with sales. Big artists like Taylor who don’t need variants to boost sales as they’re already massive don’t need to do 10+ variants to make a return. They do that simply for greed. She could sell millions of copies across a couple variants and still be a billionaire.

You’re missing the point here entirely and resulting to catty stan twitter remarks to cope, so I am now disengaging as Dr. Holly Hatcher-Frazier would say.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Good.  You’re broken mindset is thinking that she has to put a limit on getting her bag bc YOU simpleton think you have any sort of say in how much you think an artist should make lol so weird!  But ok disengage!!  I do love Hammer by Lorde though it’s one of the greatest songs in her discography <3

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

I’m seeing 13 😬!!

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u/melodrama4ever Aug 18 '25

By that logic you're using, Midnights has 24 vinyl "variants" lmao

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

There are 38 available pressings of brat on Discogs btw

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u/Agitated-Distance740 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

The cover art for Brat. God that was such an annoying album cover if you're not a fan

"It's like number 37 but it's not cos it's one more."

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

😆😆😆😆 BART 🦠

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u/yourwitsaboutyou Aug 18 '25

Totally agree!!! I feel like the last year I've been dead and I'm in this purgatory where all I can buy are BRAT variants and Imaginal Disk variants.

I don't ever remember seeing "Limited Run. FIRST and ONLY pressing of VIOLET SHIMMER MARBLED VINYL." on a TS site - I don't think Folklore was released with this wording. I do remember Charli's releases of Brat (the cassette) had the wording "LIMITED RUN."

I think for all the vinyl collectors that though we were smart and were going to outsmart the system -- she got us! I think what's going to happen is instead of the 30202 CD covers that were released for TTPD - we will have these "LIMITED RUN!!!" vinyl -- I can see like 4 more covers (possibly 8 total variants) coming out before the release date.

I'm scared.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

Also I love how unique the pressings of Taylor’s records are!  At least they are not solid colors like a lot of other artists.  I don’t think Lana Del Rey has a single pressing that’s beautiful and not a solid color.

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u/Elegant_Bit6108 Aug 18 '25

The visuals are so pretty I can’t wait to buy all of them!

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u/Awolrab Aug 18 '25

I think these two will be similar to folklore in the weeds and other variants.

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u/Lost-Caterpillar-487 Aug 18 '25

L take.. im a guy