From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Mon, Jul 13th 1998, 20:42
From Blag Jesus Sex Machine Sent Mon, Jul 13th 1998, 20:42
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, AudioPig wrote:
> rumours can sometimes be dangerous to the wallet. this "import ban"
> thing, regardless if it's fully based in fact, may just be a good
> advertising/p.r. job thought up by the "reasonable people" at warp n'
> nothing.
>
> certainly there have been plenty of instances where cd's eventually got
> repressed in the u.s. with extra tracks ("drum n' bass for papa" comes to
> mind), but they didn't involve any sort of ban zanyness. and this doesn't
> really involve the 2Xlp pressing, for i doubt that Nothing is going to
> press any vinyl. thoughts?
>
You expect us to believe that a RECORD COMPANY would do something so DIRTY
AND UNDERHANDED? You know, I never really thougt about it, but that I'm
now convinced that The Nefarious Greg Eden and other WARP executives are
off in some dark office somewhere RIGHT NOW plotting which "bonus" tracks
to put on the domestic release...
Even though there's not going to be a domestic vinyl release, getting the
import is the usual gamble with mail order vinyl, you have a pretty good
chance of ending up with records more suitable for say, holding fruit, or
one with a 4 labels glued into the grooves or something... at least that
always happens to me.
If you got screwed on the Plug record, think about what jazz fans go
through (if you're also a jazz fan you already know where I'm going with
this) the MOTHER%^$#ERS reissue the SAME RECORDS *over* and *over* and
*over* except they'll remaster it, then add one track, then add 3 tracks,
then put in some new photographs, then (finally) put out the "definitive
box set" including tons of extra material... ask anyone who paid $37
EACH for the japanese imports of John Coltrane's "Live at the Village
Vanguard" cds (it had been out of print in the US for years) how happy
they are about the box set that came out last year (which had like an hour
of extra material)
Anyway, I'm paranoid now, so I'm gonna wait for the domestic release.
.Bil.
IAMaCOPIER