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quoted 2 lines I just saw the Underworld pearls girl single at the local store. On

>I just saw the Underworld pearls girl single at the local store. On >two discs in typical UK single rip-off fashion.

It's not only to rip people off, it's also to get the record higher in the charts and thus getting more radio play and boosting the sale further. Can you agree that even IDM can be commercial when it comes to these issues?

quoted 5 lines This isn't the fault of the record companies... in the UK, there is some

>This isn't the fault of the record companies... in the UK, there is some >sort of regulation imposed on music manufacturers that limits the length of >"singles" to forty minutes (otherwise they become albums). This is why >there was Ventolin 1 & 2 in the UK, but one, single, fifty odd minute >Ventolin in the US. Stupid rule.

Yes it is a stupid rule. But stupid artists and record companies too, who don't put together two 35-minute singles into a 70-minute album. "Ventolin" works very well as an album (or maxi-EP or whatever...). The UK chart rule leads to other bad things for collectors. Often there are different releases in the UK as in the rest of Europe, so that collectors need to buy both to get all mixes. (But only if the collector is stupid enough, like me.) Another strange outcome of the complicated UK chart rules is the non-UK release of two-track CD singles in cardboard packages. These are to my knowledge for some reason illegal in the UK. Mute for example does these pressings without admitting it, and you can't find them in the UK. It's a corrupt music business... ________________________________________________________ Johan Jaatinen, unaccountably posting as Anika Agebjoern aniag@info.liu.se