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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:08:00 EST
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- From: MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET
- Subject: It's A Beautiful Day
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- >From: Hosko <RMCB@DLRVM.BITNET>
-
- 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.
-
- > 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.
-
- Since I was the "some guy" Hosko is referring to, allow me to repeat
- the story. Once upon a time there was a good CD store in East Lansing
- called CD Emporium. (This was back when stores with "Records" in their
- name actually did carry vinyl. CD Emporium was the first store in
- town to carry only CDs.) One day I spotted a copy of the first
- It's A Beautiful Day album with a price tag of $68. When I questioned
- the manager about the high price because while not cheap CD Emporium
- was reasonable (Japanese 2 CD Miles Davis sets for $35), he told me
- that some guy on the West Coast had the rights and pressed a small
- number. As I remember the story, there was only the one pressing.
- The price would increase each time the store would reorder. The $68
- one was the third time the store had ordered.
-
- I later found the first two It's A Beautiful Day as $18 discs on the
- TRC label. No address for the label, but the discs were made in
- West Germany.
-
- The CBS 'Nice Price' series has me puzzled. Last Christmas I found
- Leonard Cohen's _Songs of Love and Hate_ for $15 while Meatloaf's
- _Deadringer_ was $23.50. There was even a Japanese pressing of
- Soft Machine's fourth album for $15 with a 'Nice Price' sticker.
- Maybe the strange pricing was just Tower Records. They had some
- $15 imports, a lot more imports at their usual low twenties price,
- and several that were over $30.
-
- John McIntyre
- Physics - Astronomy Dept
- Michigan State University
-