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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:17:09 MEZ
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- Comments: Resent-From: Hosko <RMCB@DLRVM>
- Comments: Originally-From: The Central Scrutinizer <CV01@SWTEXAS.BITNET>
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- From: Hosko <RMCB@DLRVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Cobham/T.Williams/It's A Beautiful Day
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- Michael said:
- >>I am extremely incensed at the dog-in-the-manger attitude of major labels
- >>who hold copyrights of important, in-demand records and won't make them
- >>available. Can you say _It's a Beautiful Day_? Thought you could.
-
- Mr. Scrutinizer said:
- > I'm curious about this one Michael. This discussion came up before, but
- >I found this CD priced as high as what you would expect to pay for any
- >imports (~$25). It was released by an outfit called (*synapse failure*)
- >San Francisco Sound (? -- they also have done some Moby Grape releases for
- >a slightly more reasonable price). I think John Mc mentioned finding it as
- >an import. So what's the scoop on this? If CBS is sitting on this one (it
- >was originally on Columbia wasn't it?) then are these "grey market" CD's?
-
- This topic came up 6 months or so ago. Someone said that some guy on the
- west coast had got the rights to _It's A Beautiful Day_ from CBS and had
- pressed a batch of CDs. And, when all were sold out he would press another
- lot, but increase the price, and carry on doing this, making the CD more
- and more expensive. When I heard this I dashed out to see if I could
- find a copy (IABD was on my 'Records To Be Replaced By CDs' list).
- Without too much trouble I found an copy on CBS's 'Nice Price' series.
- Maybe I was just lucky, beacuse I haven't seen another copy since.
- If this story is true then I hope that others don't start doing the
- same, because this is an example of pure exploitation.
-
- Hosko
-