Got this the other day: Dear Hip-O Select Fans and Music Hoovers, Wow. Finally. Live From Santa Monica, California, It's Hip-O Select Dot Com! 20 weeks (18, actually, counting the Xmas break) and three days ago, we had a staff of one, no website, no release schedule and no way to get the releases we didn't have to you. A few hours ago (depending on when you get this email), www.hip-oselect.com went live with our three debut releases: 1) Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio's Complete Coral Recordings, which ships on April 23rd. 2) Howard Tate's Get It While You Can: The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions, coming April 30th. 3) The Chess Work Shirt, available NOW! You can pre-order the music, which will ship on the "release" date, and your credit card will not be billed until the records ship, so feel free to order early and often. We will be adding releases to the site with reckless abandon soon, but please drop by any old time and poke around. There's lots of what the gearheads call "content" to look at and hear, and the Town Square message board is poised for you to post your comments on the site and suggestions for future releases. There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline, especially if you're a fan of Classic Motown recordings and um, well, we'd better keep mum about the other albums until they're ready to hatch. Martin Briley! Fela Kuti! Richie Havens! Sorry. Those just slipped out. We'll be back from time to time, but we promise not to clog your mailbox or abuse your genial good nature. We can't wait to show you around. Cheers, HipOcrates P.S. The Vault Is Now Open. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines