Actually I was complaining about getting too much unnecessary guff for too
much money. Just so you know. I believe sociologists refer to it as
conspicuous consumption.
quoted 66 lines From: Dan Haskovec <dan@pry.com>
>From: Dan Haskovec <dan@pry.com>
>To: production unit <productionunit@hotmail.com>
>CC: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] geogaddi, and absurd packaging in general
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:26:19 -0800 (PST)
>
>This has to be the first time I've heard someone complain that they are
>getting too much for their money. Sure you could squeeze 5 lp sides down
>to 4, at the expense of either content length or sound quality. Oh well,
>whatever makes you happy. ;)
>
>dan
>
>
>
>On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, production unit wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Yo Peeps,
> > I got Geogaddi today, and, frankly, my opinion is my own and I
> > can't be bothered with THAT debate.
> > However, I was a touch miffed at shelling out twenty pounds for a
>lavishly
> > packaged triple vinyl set, one side of which is just an etched picture.
>I
> > feel they could easily have squished it onto two records (possibly at
>the
> > expense of some of the more dispensible short tracks, although it's just
>my
> > view that they're dispensible yadayadayada). After the lifesize
>surfboard
> > that was 'Drukqs' on vinyl, it seems to me that Warp are edging towards
>the
> > sliperry slope of Mo' Wax-isation.
> >
> > Does anyone remember the period they had when they were just releasing
> > preposterous, humungous feats of architecture for covers e.g. Money
>Mark's
> > second lp and that fucking ace Divine Styler album that I paid a small
> > fortune for, which respectively featured a spinning kaliedoscope type
>thing
> > and a cover that turned into a huge oregami pyramid? Now THERE was a
>good
> > reason not to do coke, especially if you ran a record label!
> >
> > Anyhoo, it's all just a little too much expense for too superfluous a
>result
> > if you ask me. You didn't, of course.
> > marciablaine.cjb.net
> > forthcoming:
> > e.p. on Dalriada
> > inclusion on Benbecula "Music Volume 2"
> > inclusion on Law & Auder "I Am:Bient"
> > inclusion on Struktur
> >
> >
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inclusion on Struktur
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