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quoted 8 lines The way that I have always understood limited pressings is

>The way that I have always understood limited pressings is >so that a song doesnt get Juice Tigered, eg - played to >death... A good example is, say, the chemical brothers (if >u like um) you like hearing one of their songs out mabe the >first 50 times you hear it then it gets really OLD! A >better example is IM Ready by Size 9 (josh wink) 2 weeks >after it was released i went to a party where I heard the >song 10 times in one night (Im not overeggagerating)

quoted 2 lines I digress, im just rambling

>I digress, im just rambling >DJ Ebben Flow

Well all i can muster is....Just because a record gets a limited pressing doesn't mean a DJ isn't gonna play it 10 times in one night!, or everytime you go out. What it means is that not as many people can gets their hands on a copy, and therefore it's less likely that a track'll be played at all, let alone ten times at a party. Making a recording limited doesn't make it good or interesting, i've been bored by limited and un-limited records alike. I think the point of limiting records creates a self-promoting market, when a record comes out that would be vaguely well recieved and unlimited, people buy it, and you might well sell quite few. If on the otherhand you limit the release to 1,000 copies it becomes a collectors item, this is only a broad sence, lots of labels release limited editions which never become collectable. However take the HAB 12"'s on Warp...Limited release of R.D.James, first week of it's release and it was already trainspotted (maybe a slight exaggeration). People without having heard the music would eventually be hunting the record down, and therefore it's the limited status of the record that is self-promoting. On the otherhand, as i've mentioned, lots of labels release limited editions, of artists not well known and are therefore unlikely to be trainspotted. Often a label can't afford to press a whole load of records, and even if they do, they may not sell very many. Limiting a release may bring someform of publicity, and anyway it would be unlikely that they could sell, or afford to release more. Nick.