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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Errrrr.....ummm..... |
| Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:12:50 -0500 |
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Ummm....looks like audities has a hick-up....I sent this a week ago.
>From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Reissue, repackage, repackage...
>Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:03:23 -0500
>
>At Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:40:28 Bill wrote:
>
>>Including a bonus disc with the INITIAL pressings is nothing new and
>>rewards
>>the die-hard fans of the artist who will rush out and buy the material
>>immediately. Releasing a single album and THEN releasing an appended
>>package
>>(like The Thorns) is just flipping the bird to the core audience.
>>
>>So I guess the moral here is that the major labels want me to wait just to
>>make certain they're done screwing around? Not very bright. And they
>>wonder
>>why people download music...
>
>The movie companies have been doing this with DVD's since the get-go. "Lord
>Of The Rings" has been the biggest culprit. Holiday-specific release dates
>for the initial DVD sell-through of a double disc theatrical screener with
>nary a bonus feature....6 months later, with a second holiday market in
>mind, they unleash the 4-disc extended maxed-out, bonus feature, deleted
>scene, easter egg hunt spewfest.
>
>Got sucked in buying the wrong version of "Fellowship Of The Ring"...didn't
>fall for it on "Two Towers"...waited for the 4-disc set and saved myself
>the expense of a lame double disc coaster.
>
>Jaimie Vernon,
>Bullseye
>
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