4 Men With Beards

i shaved all of their beards. officially beardless, I can confirm.

My first (and last) purchase of a record from 4 Men with Beards was this: https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/master/16158-Funkadelic-Maggot-Brain. The cover and record looked really good but it sounded awful. Hiss, pops and clicks, undulating volume, you name it. Based on my experience and the other reviews here, I won't be purchasing another album on this label.

The absolute kings of "mp3 on wax." Shine on, you crazy diamonds, and continue getting 14-year-olds to pay way too much for something they could get for free on YouTube.

Men with beards = hipster wankers. Always avoid men in beards, if they´re not Santa Claus.

It seems that, along its sister company Runt, 4MWB ceased its activities. Adios, amigos!

Label best known for shitty quality. Avoid. 3 more words.

These people should be ashamed. They have zero respect for the music that they put out and for the vinyl format. Terrible pressings, terrible mastering, likely from CD-masters. Awful stuff. The very definition of a hipster label, all style over substance. Avoid at all costs.

I just want to the chorus of public shaming that is going on and say that this label SUCKS! I bought a total of 4 reissues from this company's catalogue back in my early vinyl collecting days, before I knew any better. I own the first two Flipper albums and Desertshore by Nico and they all sound like shit. Very flat, dull, and lifeless with an unacceptable surface noise-to-music ratio. Seriously, I have albums from the 70s with less surface noise than these reissues... it's quite obvious that this label rarely, if ever, has access to the original master tapes when reissuing vinyl. Not only is there no advantage over my FLAC rips of these albums, it actually sounds worse. This is a perfect example of why 180 gram vinyl, in itself, doesn't mean anything. If the master plate sounds like shit, you can press it on whatever mass of wax you want and it will still sound terrible. This label's M.O. seems to be duping naïve young record collectors into seeing a sticker about "180 gram" and assuming that means it will sound good. As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd. The only record I own from this miserable label that sounds ably decent is Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star, so I guess rarely they can get it right. Either way, I think we as a community should not this label because they clearly don't give a shit about quality and are just cynically cashing in on the "vinyl craze" alongside many other unscrupulous reissue labels. Don't get me wrong though, there are some labels out there providing much needed reissues for albums that would otherwise be out of reach for most of us. The difference, though, is those labels actually take pride in putting out a record that sounds good.

I know it wasn't just me...but something was wrong...especially completely changing the labels. You dont do that. If the album doesn't have the actual record label on it either from its original pressing I feel something is wrong unless it came from the artist themselves.

Just played the 4MWB reissue of Bauhaus' 'The Sky's Gone Out' and thought I'd put the CD on by mistake. Not unlistenable, but very flat, dull and ultimately underwhelming.