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polygon
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response 25 of 60:
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Sep 4 07:14 UTC 1991 |
WEA?
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mcnally
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response 26 of 60:
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Sep 4 08:08 UTC 1991 |
The truly gigantic recording industry monstrosity that includes (among
myriad smaller labels, I imagine) Warner, Elektra, and Atlantic.
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krj
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response 27 of 60:
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Sep 28 10:44 UTC 1991 |
Perhaps this is the place to repeat my list of the Six Major Labels and
who owns them:
Sony Music Formerly Columbia, but that name is quickly turning
into simply a designation for the pop/rock operation.
WEA Warner Elektra Atlantic. Owned by Time Warner, which
according to a recent news article is shopping for a
foreign partner.
MCA I have a naggins suspicion that they have recently been
purchased by the Japanese conglomerate Matsushita, but
I'm not sure.
BMG Formerly RCA, which is now just a part of the German
Bertlesmann Music Group
Capitol Owned by a conglomerate called CEMA, possibly British?
Polygram Venerable Dutch operation, part of the Philips empire
Each of these labels has a little flock of smaller labels which they either
control, or else provide manufacturing and distribution for.
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mcnally
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response 28 of 60:
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Oct 9 09:46 UTC 1991 |
So apart from a few albums like Sting's "The Soul Cages", Bonnie
Raitt's "Luck of the Draw", a couple of other albums, and many, many
CD singles, has anyone spotted any new releases arriving in digipaks,
eco-paks, or other cardboard packaging? When is WEA supposed to
switch over?
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krj
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response 29 of 60:
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Oct 11 07:00 UTC 1991 |
WEA is supposed to switch over to "Eco"-paks on April 1, 1992.
I saw another cardboard-packaged CD in the used store I was in tonight:
Susanna Hoffs' "When You're A Boy".
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krj
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response 30 of 60:
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Dec 17 07:31 UTC 1991 |
The new domestic R.E.M. CD single, "Radio Song", is packaged in one of
those yucky cardboard packs. Sigh. I've been hoping I'd see an import
in a jewel box, but no such luck yet. (Did you realize that there have been
at least 7 CD singles issued from the OUT OF TIME album, to date?)
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mcnally
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response 31 of 60:
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Dec 17 11:51 UTC 1991 |
Can you say "greed"? I knew you could... The $10 CD-single scam
R.E.M. (or Warner, or whoever..) has been running is pretty annoying.
Why couldn't they just release an album with all the "bonus tracks"?
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hawkeye
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response 32 of 60:
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Dec 17 15:19 UTC 1991 |
That's what "Dead Letter Office" was/is. Maybe they'll release something
like that again in another 3-4 albums???
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mcnally
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response 33 of 60:
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Dec 18 09:10 UTC 1991 |
Why not now.. They've certainly got an album's-worth by now..
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krj
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response 34 of 60:
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Dec 18 19:51 UTC 1991 |
R.E.M. had an additional album's worth that didn't go on DEAD LETTER
OFFICE... mostly live versions.
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ty
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response 35 of 60:
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Jan 2 18:20 UTC 1992 |
I agree with Mike. G-r-e-e-d
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krj
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response 36 of 60:
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Jan 13 08:06 UTC 1992 |
It's been reported that Tower Records was only going to carry the
cardboard *-pak version of the new U2 album, which is available in
both cardboard and jewel box packaging. That isn't strictly true, at
least in Ann Arbor; Tower here is offering both versions. However, they
are charging an extra buck for the jewel box version, in spite of the
widespread reports that the jewel box is cheaper to produce.
My paranoid soul is convinced they are comparing the sales of the two
formats, having stacked the deck in favor of the cardboard *-pak.
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mcnally
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response 37 of 60:
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Jan 13 08:26 UTC 1992 |
Hopefully they'll look at their results and decide that a substantial
number of people despise the digipaks enough that they'll submit to an
atrocious gouging not to have to deal with them. More likely they're
gearing up to wage a campaign to get people to think that CDs in jewel
boxes are more expensive.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 60:
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Jan 29 09:49 UTC 1992 |
Does anyone know when WEA is supposed to switch completely over to
"ecopaks"? It's probably too late to change things now, but is there
anyone left making a last effort to stop them?
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krj
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response 39 of 60:
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Jan 29 16:39 UTC 1992 |
April 1 is the announced cutover date. After that, anything I *have* to have
on WEA, I buy from Canada, or if Free Trade means the Canadians get the
crap-paks too, from Europe. Speculative buying of WEA artists stops then.
I've been trying to think who's on WEA who I just couldn't give up; so far
all I can think of are R.E.M. and Luka Bloom.
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mcnally
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response 40 of 60:
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Jan 30 04:43 UTC 1992 |
It was discouraging when I was in Wherehouse today.. I saw quite
a few discs that had been released in digipaks or ecopaks. It's a bad
sign.
I don't know if I feel strongly enough about it to refuse to buy
a WEA release if it's an album I really want, but I have to admit that
those artists on WEA that I might otherwise pick up on a lark are going
to have a lot harder time competing for my record dollars.
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bad
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response 41 of 60:
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Jan 30 18:05 UTC 1992 |
What means "digipaks" and "ecopaks", again?
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mcnally
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response 42 of 60:
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Jan 30 22:55 UTC 1992 |
El-cheapo (not really, supposedlyt they cost marginally more than
jewel boxes..) cardboard CD packaging, ala Sting's "the Soul Cages",
Bonnie Raitt's "Luck of the Draw", or U2's "Achtung Baby!"
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krj
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response 43 of 60:
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Jan 31 07:12 UTC 1992 |
I'm sure if I closely compared the "digipak" and the "ecopak", I could
learn the differences between them, but they're all cardboard "crap-paks"
to me!!! :-)
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krj
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response 44 of 60:
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Feb 8 08:46 UTC 1992 |
Rumor central: Several Usenet writers quote a Billboard story reporting
that WEA is backpedaling on their plan to convert all CD packaging to
the cardboard "eco"-pak on April 1. The Usenet articles say that WEA
has found that the cardboard packaging costs more than the jewel box,
and WEA is also worried about the consumer hostility they've encountered.
More details after I see a copy of the Billboard story firsthand.
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goose
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response 45 of 60:
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Feb 8 09:23 UTC 1992 |
Alright! I could never see how that paper thingie was supposed to
be better than a jewel box.
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mcnally
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response 46 of 60:
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Feb 8 10:23 UTC 1992 |
That means that now's the time to make a big push.. Who has an
address for WEA?
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steve
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response 47 of 60:
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Mar 7 08:34 UTC 1992 |
Ahem: Who has the address? Its still worth writing them an *bitching*.
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arabella
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response 48 of 60:
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Jun 26 22:35 UTC 1992 |
Is there any new news on the digipak controversy? Any chance
some of us can be helpful by protesting their use?
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krj
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response 49 of 60:
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Sep 4 04:17 UTC 1992 |
The latest on CD packaging: Sony Music has started shipping CDs which are
all ready for the elimination of the outer longbox on 4/1/93. Inside the
longbox, the CDs are sealed with a holographic sticker and then shrink-
wrapped. Come 4/1, store staff just strip off the longboxes of the stock
on hand and re-rack the discs in the new fixtures.
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