Re: (idm) New Autechre lp/cd banned...

From Lance C McGannon
Sent Thu, Jul 2nd 1998, 21:45

At 01:40 PM 7/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Before everyone gets all pissed at nothing/Interscope, think about it for
>a minute. Nothing/Interscope can't file anything in court to stop an
>import record from being sold here, so thier "import ban" has to be in
>full willing cooperation with warp, meaning they agree not to sell it to
>distributors who will ship it to the US in thier contract to license the
>album to nothing/Interscope. So before anyone makes any short-sighted
>complaints about nothing/Interscope, make sure you get equally pissed at
>your buddies Autechre and Warp, because they are just as guilty.
>
>Besides, I can't imagine some little "import ban" stopping a bunch of
>sweaty creepers from getting ahold of this album. It'll just make it that
>much more of a trophy piece.
>

i'm not condeming anybody or any label. i'm
just delivering the news. i just remember how
difficult it was to get that =B5-zip ep that was
import banned.

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