Membership Renewal

Brane_of_JFK

Mine auto-renews next week, just curious as to why anyone would choose Analog over Digital now given the "annual" single has gone away. Any other reason to keep analog??

HesCalledDyer

Nope.

pjl44

At this point, the additional benefits you get with Analog are:

- Membership item
- Free digital bootleg
- Hard copy of Deep

I guess you're just gambling on whether the membership item will be another t-shirt and how you feel about that.

PB11041

I plan an staying Analog, unless they make a clearer and clearly more depressing announcement of what it means prior to my renewal.  When they first did this digital analog stuff, in my personal opinion the single had taken a run of some pretty unspectacular choices, beginning in 2006 and then of course they decide to drop a nice 10" of two great cuts from Red Rocks 1995 after I went digital.  So long story short, I can lose $20 while trying to figure out if there are any better clearer analog plans ahead.

MedozK

pjl44 said:

At this point, the additional benefits you get with Analog are:

- Membership item
- Free digital bootleg
- Hard copy of Deep

I guess you're just gambling on whether the membership item will be another t-shirt and how you feel about that.

To me he is not gambling. We already know the 2019 membership item.
https://pearljam.com/shop/analog-member-items/2019-ten-club-analog-member-shirt

If you like it, pay up for the Analog membership. Or if you want the hard copy of deep (which is 2 years behind) or the digital boot.

If you don't ... pay for Digital membership and see what the 2020 membership item is in Jan. 2020... and move up then if you like it.

JojoRice

Mine actually renews tomorrow.  I'm staying Analog.  I like the 2019 shirt. 

Brane_of_JFK

Thanks all for the input. Probably just staying analog for the time being. The email announcement wasn't very specific as to what the benefits were for analog now that the single is gone. If the only reoccurring benefit will just be the shirt moving forward, that's an easy pass.

HesCalledDyer

Analog is exactly the same as before, just without the vinyl single.

PJNB

If you like this years shirt stay analog. If not go digital and wait till next year and repeat. 

Travelar

I downgraded because 10C doesn't appear to have a plan other than offering less for the same. Had they announced something other than "we're excited to see what the future brings" I might have entertained staying Analog.

RS65573

Travelar said:

I downgraded because 10C doesn't appear to have a plan other than offering less for the same. Had they announced something other than "we're excited to see what the future brings" I might have entertained staying Analog.

Exactly. My auto renew was today. I hate change after 25 years but cant give money away.

Spiritual_Chaos

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

HesCalledDyer

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

STOP!

Spiritual_Chaos

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

STOP!

Be resonable now. The chunk of cost that was the vinyl will obviously be replaced by something. You think they would remove something and just keep the new margin as profit? 

Unless, they were losing money on it in the end or something.

i think something new will show up.

HesCalledDyer

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

STOP!

Be resonable now. The chunk of cost that was the vinyl will obviously be replaced by something. You think they would remove something and just keep the new margin as profit? 

Unless, they were losing money on it in the end or something.

i think something new will show up.

The membership benefits are listed on the Ten Club page, they have been for a month.  Everyone needs to stop thinking something is replacing the vinyl or something new is showing up.

Spiritual_Chaos

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

STOP!

Be resonable now. The chunk of cost that was the vinyl will obviously be replaced by something. You think they would remove something and just keep the new margin as profit? 

Unless, they were losing money on it in the end or something.

i think something new will show up.

The membership benefits are listed on the Ten Club page, they have been for a month.  Everyone needs to stop thinking something is replacing the vinyl or something new is showing up.

I still believe it. I just don't know what yet.

It would blow my mind if they just got rid of something and then kept the same price.

Then I would really feel like they were taking me for a sucker.

PB11041

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What will replace the vinyl @Santos L. Halper ?

STOP!

Be resonable now. The chunk of cost that was the vinyl will obviously be replaced by something. You think they would remove something and just keep the new margin as profit? 

Unless, they were losing money on it in the end or something.

i think something new will show up.

The membership benefits are listed on the Ten Club page, they have been for a month.  Everyone needs to stop thinking something is replacing the vinyl or something new is showing up.

Covering their ass is not the same as not changing anything.  Wanting to make it very clear that in 2019 the single was done was the first order of business.  That might not go further but that was the first major step.

HesCalledDyer

OMG

BettrMan21

I'm dropping down to digital. I hate to do it after all these years but I really don't want give away $20. It's a pretty shady thing to do to loyal customers/fans but hey, if you can get away with it, may as well do it I guess.

helplessdancer

i dont renew until october and for sure i am going to move from analog to digital

Brane_of_JFK

BettrMan21 said:

I'm dropping down to digital. I hate to do it after all these years but I really don't want give away $20. It's a pretty shady thing to do to loyal customers/fans but hey, if you can get away with it, may as well do it I guess.

I'm in a similar boat. Yes it's only $20, but if something is getting taken away and the price remains the same, that's pretty bad business.