quoted 12 lines I have just been informed by Astralwerks that ISDN won't hit the streets>>I have just been informed by Astralwerks that ISDN won't hit the streets
>>until 6/13. From the blurb, I quoteth:
>>
>>The new, jewel-box packaged version of I.S.D.N. features a different
>>cover, a deluxe full-colour 16-page booklet and 2 newly substituted
>>tracks.
>>
>>I did not know about the substituted tracks. That is, of course, a bad
>>thing because you'll have to buy the new one.
>
>Anyone want to take bets that the two new tracks are "Snake Hips" and
>"Amoeba" from the Far Out Son of Lung reissue?
I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but I have to say
this or I'm going to explode:
Sometimes A$tralwerks makes me so happy, (I do like some of their stuff)
and at other times I say "fuck them" and want to puke:
"EXTREMELY LIMITED $UPER RARE I$DN", re-i$$ues, re-package! Well, okay
folks, uh, now it's not so rare, plus more/different mixes, so buy them
both, and we'll all do it again in a couple months! Yippee!
Does anyone remember the words from this old SMITHS song:
_Pant_A_Vulgar_Picture_
"re-issue, re-package, re-package, re-evaluate the songs,
double-pack with a photograph, extra stripe, and a tacky badge....
At the record company meeting, on their hands a dead star,
and oh, the plans they weave, and oh, the sickening greed."
[I'm not implying that FSOL is a "dead star," I like them much,
but the rest pretty much fits].
A$tralwekrs is owned by a major label, folks, (Virgin, I believe?) And
Virgin deserves *NO* trust until they have proven themselves differently to
the techno/IDM/ambient/whatever communities. Their "History of Ambient" 1,
2, 3, at $24.00 a pop was a poor showing, I thought.
I know thousands will doubt me for challenging this oh-so-Virgin icon
of IDM labels, almighty A$tralwerks, but just consider this as some
radical food for thought. I know I'm pretty off-the-handle here, but just
THINK ABOUT IT, that's all I ask.
peace, now back to our regularly scheduled program. :)
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Matt MacQueen -- multimedia production
-- human interface, CD-ROM, Web
<macqueen@student.msu.edu> -- aural nukes in the mix
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