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Author Topic: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)  (Read 4260 times)

OfflineRobson

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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2025, 09:23:58 PM »
Vinyl only releases are dirty move toward people that are just in love of the music.

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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2025, 10:10:16 PM »
Vinyl only releases are dirty move toward people that are just in love of the music.

I guess so. Of course it is all about nostalgia selling. If memory serves, the BiA CD did the same thing back in 1985, serving people truncated versions of all songs on side A, except the one it deserved to be...  ;D
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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2025, 10:44:30 PM »
I agree about vinyl "only" releases (like The Boy). This years' record was released as a CD long ago and was just released on vinyl for the still booming market. I am sure next year will see another one, maybe Wag The Dog or All The Roadrunning (20 years next year).

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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #33 on: April 13, 2025, 11:32:05 PM »
All The Roadrunning has been issued on vinyl record.
The return of the vinyl record is a peculiar trend. It is merely 5% of total sales, and CD is another 5%.
But 50% of the buyers NEVER open their records, while more than 50% of the ones that do, play the records on crappy systems.
So record companies can safely assume that 75% of the people will not have a problem being fed with expensive yet below average records and the rest 25% may be lucky enough to find a good copy after returning several copies to whichever store they bought it from.
All collectors that are also into music, will open the record and listen to it. But although I condone this strategy, I was surprised to receive this at the shop a couple of days ago!

Seeing how many official live albums the Rolling stones have been releasing in the last decade or so, and the frequent Neil Young releases, I would feel despair if MK had a similar release schedule. I wouldn't be able to afford it. And it would lose its appeal.  So I am actually grateful that he is giving us one new or one from his back catalog every once in a while. A nice idea for a RSD release would be if he played some of his favourite songs, by other artists, like the two songs by JJ Cale, or some of the ones that appear in various collections . But since new recordings cost money and RSD releases are limited, I understand that this would be hard to do.
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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #34 on: April 16, 2025, 11:06:52 AM »
I didn’t get up this year, alike any other year. I’ll buy the record online somewhere, someday. The Boy EP was on ebay and dropped in price weeks after and got this one on CD already. My wife would call me crazy if I’d queue up. ;D

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Re: RSD: One take radio sessions on vinyl (8 tracks)
« Reply #35 on: April 16, 2025, 10:14:44 PM »
Got it today, listened to it. Best thing about it is the cover. Record plain but with the usual GZ Media noise, but at least no scratches or pressing defects. Sound quality mediocre, versions also not very good. They indeed sound like from an average band that plays together for the first time. At least Collector heart is happy. If the BIA Box comes also from GZ I will return it.

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« Last Edit: April 16, 2025, 10:17:47 PM by Love Expresso »
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