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//selling out

Nah I don't think so, actually thinking about it, the Dub aren’t too bad considering they usually realase it as a spereate remix album . . . What annoys me more is if an album is re-relased later on with an extra five or so songs tacked on, and you don’t want the whole album only those few extra tracks . . . but fuck em’ this is where burning comes in.

I suppose it’s an incentive for those people who were kind of like ‘Meh’ about buying the album before . . .

//this is where burning comes in

yes but with Kiwi artists its hard burn the extra songs, unless a friend has the album with the extra tracks of course, because they arent on the net anywhere

unless your savage and Akon, because then your music is everywhere including clogging up my computer and itunes for some stupid reason,(namely 14 yr old sister)

yeah, I read it as this though -

what is the point in supporting NZ music, (*during NZ music month*) by buying the album when it first comes out (*in May*) ONLY to have it be re released a couple of months down the track (*like August*) with a bonus disc and whatever else,

//what is the point in supporting NZ music, (*during NZ music month*) by buying the album when it first comes out (*in May*) ONLY to have it be re released a couple of months down the track (*like August*) with a bonus disc and whatever else,

which is exactly what steriogram have done, BASTARDS
I bought their album when it first came out, and this month they are re releasing it with 7 new songs I think,

What Wilco did, now that is a cool idea, genius idea, that way everyone wins

//Greenday "American Idiot", Eminem "Encore" and "The Eminem show", Metallica "St anger",
Linkin Park "meteora", Nickleback "The Long Road"(although with this one Im not sure if it had a "normal" version) they all released the special edition one and the standard album at the same time,

Just as I say that, Greenday are now re releasing American Idiot with a bonus DVD, with two music videos and the making of Holiday and boulavard of broken dreams

//Dimmer did it also. Sola Rosa as well, I think.

Dimmer or Dimmer's record label? Sola Rosa or Sola Rosa's record label?
I know that I've talked to a band or two who weren't particularly happy with their albums being rereleased like that but who said it was out of their control.

dimmer's one was a little bit special as it was a recording of a live acoustic show they did well after the initial release - same with pacifier (mentioned above). If you think about looking back of a band's discography it kinda makes sense to simply reissue the album with a bonus rather than just issue a new EP with the same songs only different. But yeah, Wilco did it right.

//Dimmer or Dimmer's record label? Sola Rosa or Sola Rosa's record label?

Either way, it doesn't really make a difference to the fans that show their support when the album is first released.

I bought You've Got To Hear The Music the first week it was released, and it was a bit stink to see a special rerelease or whatever in the shops a couple of months later. I do know that Shayne was giving away copies of the bonus cd on the Dimmer website, but I didn't know it was happening at the time so I missed out.

indeed,

then they should release it as a single , with the bonus stuff on, which then allows you to buy it seperately for those who have already bought the disc, or even put a special code or slip into the cd case and you can take that in to the record store and exchange that for the bonus disc, should one come out,

there are so many possibilites and well easier and cheaper ways than re releaseing an entire album with the bonus disc, so it must just be a money thing, trying to get as much from one album as possible before you release the next, steriogram are in the process of writing and recording a second album, so why not release the bonus stuff then?

could it be money reasons?

haha I am quite bitter about this topic as you can probably see, you think you are doing them a favour by supporting them only to be slapped in the face a few months down the track when they release the bonus shit grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

When I was in my flannel shirt wearing stage, Alice in Chains released Sap as an E.P, a few of my flannel shirt wearing mates got it and I thought 'fuck that's cool, I'll get it when I save up enough pocket money to buy both my weekly pot supply and the E.P' . . . . by the time I had enough money saved up it had dissapeared from existence, woe was me, lucky I had some pot though . . . . but then later when they released Jar Of Flies, Sap was the bonus disc, 'Yay !! that's very nice of them to think of me like that' I thought . . . apparently my mates weren't to impressed though as they already had it . . .

//actually I still wear the odd Flannel shirt

My flannel shirt is as thin as cheese cloth now.

Long before the days of Real Groovy (at least in Welly anyways) there was that great cd store in Cuba Mall that used to have second hand cds in it sometimes - that's how I got Tool with a bonus cd, and probably L7 with a bonus cd as well. This was in the days before the internet so I didn't even know that the bonus discs existed before I saw them in the store. Ahhh the good old days...

//and if you were into metal they had a wicked selection there as well.

And a ridiculously large range of Tori Amos singles for such a small place - if you want to talk about expensive collecting, there's a prime example, with the British and American and Other versions of singles all having different track listings and large prices to boot... luckily it was my sister's addiction and not mine.

7 day right of return, bundle up & send back.