In a message dated 3/13/00 5:21:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, cim_@hotmail.com
writes:
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* Most of the artists concerned just aren't interested in re-visiting areas
they've already explored, both in terms of writing new material in that
style or releasing/re-releasing older tracks. If they did it, it would
probably only be if they were tempted with large amounts of money, which
would be unlikely to be made back purely from re-issues.
* Despite what you might say, the overall demand for it is NOT high, it is
not a lucrative thing to do. There might be quite a few IDM kids who would
buy it (lets guess a few hundred?) but there needs to be enough non-hardcore
fans (these are the people who buy the bulk of a release) to buy it and make
it worthwhile re-pressing. >>
Those are two of the saddest reasons I've ever heard
not to reissue anything. CiM, I think you and I had this
discussion before, and I brought up Underground Resistance
and the other Detroit labels who keep everything in print.
It shouldn't have anything to do with money, it should have
to do with great music, and whether or not 5,000 people
want to buy it: that's why we have pressing sizes. It's also
not like the artists have a lot to do with the record. Just
ask them for their permission to put it out, bang, that's that.
If the Detroit labels hadn't kept things in print, think how
many people out there would have never heard stuff on
Transmat, Metroplex, UR, etc. etc. This self-nullifying
Kafka-esque notion of letting work disappear is ridiculous.
Matt
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