Maybe I was ahead of the curve, but with the exception of  Especially For
You and Green Thoughts, my original purchases of all the Smithereens
releases were on CD.  If I remember correctly, starting with 11, both vinyl
and CD formats were released.  It took a few years, but I did go back and
replace the vinyl copies of Especially for You and Green Thoughts with the
CD versions.

However, your theory may be correct, as I never did replace any of my Stray
Cats vinyl releases with the CD reissues.  It could be that my appreciation
of them was pretty short lived and the Smithereens catalogue holds up a lot
better a few years down the road.

It would be interesting to see how many other Audites members have vinyl
copies of releases that they chose not to update to the CD format.

Mark E.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: SMITHEREENS


> One thing I will say about the Smithereens, and I have no scientific
> evidence to back it up.  But I think that given the timing of their best
> releases and the timing of the arrival and adoption of CD technology, they
> are a band about whom a vastly disproportionate number of fans/purchasers
> would say, "I have the records but never replaced them with CD copies."
> Which in a practical sense means they command a low "share of ear" even
> among their fans.  (Another band I'd say the same about: Stray Cats.)  All
> this talk reminded me of how much I (used to) like them, and how often I
> listened to them. Had a friend who had a fling with a girl who had a fling
> with DiNizio. so we're practically related.  Yet now my vinyl is in
storage
> and all I have is a sort of unfulfilling anthology.  Oh, and Smithereens
11,
> which I ought to dig out.
>
>