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(idm) Re: Clear Records Boycott?

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1997-08-12 02:16(idm) Re: Clear Records Boycott?
└─ 1997-08-12 03:24maker of all Re: (idm) Re: Clear Records Boycott?
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1997-08-12 02:16PUCKERED1@aol.comIn a message dated 8/12/97 2:03:40 AM, brett@chicken.org (Brett McCormick) wrote: >As far
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In a message dated 8/12/97 2:03:40 AM, brett@chicken.org (Brett McCormick) wrote:
quoted 4 lines As far as I can tell, this continually happens: autechre trirep++,>As far as I can tell, this continually happens: autechre trirep++, >photek hidden camera/ni ten ichi ryu, and countless others to be sure. >It may be more extreme in the case of clear, but it appears to be >standard practice. It annoys me as well.
yeah, but the AUTECHRE & PHOTEK is just because it's finally pressed in the U.S. It was a stink about CLEAR purposely advertising this LIMITED material, waiting for the retail shops to buy em up from the distributors, and then announcing a METAMATICS CD, bt never mentioning that it's just the 12"s, and then at the very last minute (literally, it seemed) it was announced that it in fact was just the 4x12" tracks. That's a bullshit marketing scam if I ever heard of one! Retail shops get screwed too! chunked in all that change for the vinyls... buying up because of it's limited press... forcing CD buyers to feel like the only chance to get the material is to buy the 4x12"s, and then dropping the bomb of "it's now on CD" which then instantly stops vinyl sales at retail shops, who are then stuck with the vinyl. I'm sure most of the shops got rid of em slowly but surely if they really tried to put them out the door... but still, I think it's a shitting thing to do as a label! WARP is sort of the same with releasing 2 seperate 12"s that SHOULD be just a double 12" set, since the CDsingle always has both parts for the price of a CDsingle. ah.... screw it! Clear hasn't released anything good since the GESCOM 12" in my opinion. (eh, I like Metamatics, too... but that doesn't count! ;)
1997-08-12 03:24maker of all>It was a stink about CLEAR purposely advertising this LIMITED material, >waiting for the
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quoted 5 lines It was a stink about CLEAR purposely advertising this LIMITED material,>It was a stink about CLEAR purposely advertising this LIMITED material, >waiting for the retail shops to buy em up from the distributors, and then >announcing a METAMATICS CD, bt never mentioning that it's just the 12"s, and >then at the very last minute (literally, it seemed) it was announced that it >in fact was just the 4x12" tracks.
Erm. Promo material from as early as the Clatterbeats series last fall indicated that there was going to be a Metamatics disc following the Clearbeats and Metamatics series. Shame, Clear hasn't done any print advertising since the Clatterbox full length 18 months ago. No matter, Greg Clow and I have been doing the advertising for them. Usenet and web page updates have detailed release information concerning this year's Clear releases since January. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/3495/
quoted 2 lines Clear hasn't released anything good since the GESCOM 12" in>Clear hasn't released anything good since the GESCOM 12" in >my opinion.
Ugh! What a funkless existance you must have! Say hello to Henry and Mrs. X on your way home tonight... :) g.