On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, toaster oven wrote:
quoted 24 lines The copies I received were not shrinkwrapped, so I'm> > The copies I received were not shrinkwrapped, so I'm
> > confused as to what really went down. Some people seem
> > to have bought it for $11.99 or so, shrinkwrapped, which
> > is great, but they obviously didn't come thru the same
> > channels as the ones I bought (could the stores have
> > shrinked them?).
>
> i bought one in houston, unwrapped, for $17.91, and it's worth every penny. it
> took a few listens, but i am quite enamored of it now.
> but onto the import/domestic debate...
> it seems as though we have a debate on the meaning of the term "domestic."
> someone spoke earlier about how caroline/astralwerks is releasing the import as
> a domestic (hold on, let me cull up the original msg.):
>
> Chris Niemitz sez:
> >What I meant to
> >say was that It was not being released on Caroline (therefore Caroline
> >wouldn't know as much about the release as the people at Astralwerks,
> >who had mailed as the post and were in charge of distributing
> >the import as a domestic).
>
> im not sure whether or not astralwerks is in charge of importing the cd's, but
> if they are distributing the imports over here, then they are still imports.
> 'domestic' usually refers to cd's being released in the US by an american record
Looks like were in a debate over semantics here.
1.)$6 difference in price tag (between domestic and import) might
not be a lot to some, but it is to me.
2.) my exact words (this time) were "distributed as a domestic." If
Astralwerks had slapped a sticker on it, would it have made a
difference? As the initial post by AW to this mailing list
stated, AW ordered 9800 copies of a release that was to be
limited to 10,000 copies in the UK--- ie. in order to do this they must have
planned in advance to have the extra US copies manufactured and
imported).
This trivial issue aside, has anyone notice the number of discs
being distributed in the US for domestic prices? It seems there's
been a lot in the past year (PSB's Very Relentless, Freezone vol.1,
the Solar Quest cd, I've even seen the Ambient Dub vols 1-3 new for
$12.99 each, Another Fine Day, and many others).I've also seen
more stores price newly released imports for less than usual
($13.99-$17.99).
At the same time, anybody notice Tower's markup of domestic
CD's? (from $14.99 to $15.99)? Pretty soon domestics and imports
will be the same $?
Anybody know what's going on here? (It's not NAFTA or GATT and
it's not the value of the dollar either).