----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt MacQueen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stewart Caig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:48 PM Subject: (313) Private Pressings (was 69 represses)
> > Theres loads of better records coming out that are better and > > much better value for money from a pure musical point of view that are > > struggling to even sell 500 copies, so it kinda smacks of arrogance > > from > > Peacefrog to release 500 and then use the numbers to justify the price. > > Great point. It is a great point! But as Placid said in the very first post, I don't think you can put a price on great music. Yes, that is precisely what is driving these prices. Yes, it is expolitative. But am I willing to say no to a great record if I really really want it? No. This is the point. I am much more of a neophite than most of the vocal members on this list, or indeed most Detroit techno heads in general, but if I love a record then very few prices will stop me. I still try to rationalise the purchase versus other record buying options, but I don't think it deserves this much debate as though it were a policy issue. If you like it enough to buy it, then you buy it. If you don't, then you don't. Let your actions drive the market. No one is shopping in a record buying vaccum. I'm not saying people shouldn't speak up about being ripped off, but in my mind this is nowhere near the same league as SID prices (the records not the store), or Pixies tickets 2 hours after going on sale, etc. This is pricing something at a higher value and hiding nothing about that process. In my mind that clarity of sales is rare enough that it leaves no one to blame but yourself for either buying it and regretting it or not buying it and regretting it. Everyone deals with the limits of their record buying budget. Everyone draws the line somewhere. This is why I've only bought 'Shattered Dreams' so far. I've liked the others as well, but not enough to justify the price of a 3x pack of Ennio Morricone remixes in its place. I'm happy with that tension. Why is everyone else complaining? I just want more money period, but who doesn't? And it's not like people are poaching these on Ebay like Pixies tickets. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
