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| From | Andrea Kremer <kremer@shore.net> |
| Subject | Re: Reissue, repackage, repackage... |
| Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:05:50 -0500 (EST) |
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Didn't Aimee Mann do something like this very recently with "Lost In
Space?" Different packaging, or a new booklet, something different... in
fact, didn't she do it *twice*? I think the original issue came with a
bonus cd that wasn't available everywhere, and I think she recently
reissued it AGAIN in a different form.
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 nonstoppop@cox.net wrote:
> I'm in the middle of putting together a piece about the obnoxious but incessant trend of labels reissuing albums a few months later with bonus tracks or a DVD in order to get people to re-buy the album. I've recently been really annoyed by two particular examples: the Thorns CD (reissued with a bonus disc of all the songs performed acoustically) and the Ringo Starr CD (reissued with three new songs and an interview disc, as well as the supposedly limited-edition DVD that was included in the initial pressings of the album). Both of those reissues are blatantly taking advantage of fans of the artist to get them to re-buy an album that they probably bought when it first came out; I mean, seriously, is someone who just happens to hear a song by the Thorns on the radio going to be sold on buying the album because it has a bonus disc of acoustic versions? Not really, because it's only just one song that they've heard, anyway. This has been going on for ages, of course; other !
> examples in recent memory are the addition of the "Hurt" video on DVD to Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around," the reissuing of Phantom Planet's "The Guest" because of the success of "California" as the theme song to "The O.C.," Pete Yorn's debut album coming out a second time but with a bonus live EP attached, and, as I mentioned in a review on PopMatters, Suzanne Vega's best-of has been reissued with a bonus DVD of her videos...but the video collection isn't available independently of the best-of...and, as I notedly just as grumpily in the review, her US label can't be bothered to issue the CD/DVD combo here, anyway.
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> Can anyone think of any other examples of reissues like these that have particularly ticked them off...?
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