by soundstory » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:13 pm
[quote][i]Originally posted by discoginfo[/i]
<br>I believe the real danger here lies in the fact that if CD re-releases are "substandard" (according to "the fans") and therefore sell too little, it will give further weight the record company notion that releasing real CDs is not worthwhile anymore so they focus on digital-only releases instead. Or maybe this is what they want? Digital releases costs little to produce. Some claim that the vinyl market in the late 80s was deliberately sabotaged by record companies, by making the sound bad and including some extra tracks on CDs, so that they could sell the more profitable CDs instead of vinyls could be returned if the was some noise etc. Not sure if that was true (we will never find out) but it's quite obvious that record companies releasing CDs today are not interested in having "fan input" but rely on a single person to do the track listing. In the case of this 2-CD I believe the compiler focused on including tracks that have not been issued on CD before, which is logical in a way... But unsatisfactroy for fans who want all tracks in one CD set.
About that amazon review, he does not say outright that some tracks were from vinyl, he only thought so, and did not complain about the sound too much, only that the "original" sounded "clearer". Well I don't know, I have not bought it.
/JW
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Yes I agree, it's hard to tell yet whether this is the case or not.
As it doesn't include the 12" mix of Smalltown Boy I decided not to purchase.
With some of the Cherry Pop releases over the last couple of years, it makes you wonder what's going on.
Are master tapes in general in such a bad state that vinyl is the only option in some cases?.