Beleaguered record club Vinyl Me, Please will relaunch under the ownership of VNYL Inc. after taking steps to enter liquidation earlier this year. The company has instated a new leadership team that promises to honor past obligations—notably the rash of unfulfilled orders that has exasperated customers—and, as new chief executive Nick Alt said in a press release, restore the company to “its true form as the ‘Best Damn Record Club.’” Going forward, the owners intend to integrate Vinyl Me, Please with its VinylBox and VNYL brands as a sister operation specializing in premium audio.
VNYL acquired Vinyl Me, Please after a post-bankruptcy bidding war, the new owners told Variety . The company’s new president, the direct-to-consumer operator Emily Muhoberac, said in the press release, “