Kid Calamity
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 13:45
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Ironically it was Punk where all this started. But then, 'Punk' was quite a middle class thing, in reality.
BTW I don't think I've paid extra for anything in a special box or with items of ephemera. Although I was as pleased as tuppence with my free t-shirt that came with the 12" of Psychedelic Furs' 'Pretty In Pink'.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 13:49
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I've sometimes forked out (a bit) extra if it's a band or artist really close to my heart but not to the tune of trillions.
I've been quite lucky in finding sexy-versions of things at silly, cheap prices in places like Fopp and second hand places though. Got a 3cd Discharge Box set of everything they'd done for £3 in Fopp once. Result!
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 13:57
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When I lived in Bilston, near Wolverhampton, we had a 'chart return' shop in the High Street. That meant that record companies would ensure maximum potential sales by making sure that that shop of all others in the district had the most bonkers formats. I remember a Jellyfish CD single in a sleeve that was transparent and filled with blue oil.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 14:01
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Nice. I like things like that. Something playful and tactile.
You should release a Glowpeople song on a highly irradiated cd so that after people have touched it they themselves become actual 'Glowpeople'!
Am marketing genius!
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singingringingtree
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Re: for those without a spare kidney....
Mar 20, 2012, 14:02
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mr sulcus wrote: and the cds appear online somewhere too!
the CDs will be released on their own on the venerable Ace Records to coincide w/ the standard edition of the book ... last i heard it was a triple CD, but may be down to a double now ... it's all musics JC has written about in the book, many long-ass jams (he's not keen on unnecessary edits) ... i don't think it'll break the bank either
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Citizensmurf
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Re: for those without a spare kidney....
Mar 20, 2012, 14:08
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singingringingtree wrote: mr sulcus wrote: and the cds appear online somewhere too!
the CDs will be released on their own on the venerable Ace Records to coincide w/ the standard edition of the book ... last i heard it was a triple CD, but may be down to a double now ... it's all musics JC has written about in the book, many long-ass jams (he's not keen on unnecessary edits) ... i don't think it'll break the bank either
Where did you read this? If the cds contained the 12 minute version of Alice Cooper's "Don't Blow Your Mind", then I would for sure love to have it. I've never been able to track it down. In fact, there are a few of these AOTM's that have eluded me, even as downloads. There was a time when I would record the audio stream to save the music, and if I really liked it, I'd buy the real thing.
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singingringingtree
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Re: for those without a spare kidney....
Mar 20, 2012, 14:39
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Citizensmurf wrote:
Where did you read this?
a band i was in has a track on the CD
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keith a
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 14:47
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Moon Cat wrote: I don't know. If you had £200 to spare would you feel the same?
I don't know for sure, cos I haven't. But I suspect that I would still feel pissed off about it.
I've been a Cope fan for years and years. He's had a lot of my money over the years but for the most part I've never really begrudged it, even when I had to buy another Kilimanjaro for the new sleeve, and then another for the US version with Suffocate on it. Etc.
The most unhappy I've been with anything like was when Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse was released and I had to buy it on cd and vinyl to get all the tracks. I'm sorry but that doesn't sit well with me. Even so I bought it, figuring that Cope had entertained a few of us for nowt on that busking tour so this was a kind of way of paying back.
But this is preposterous. The record industry is in disarray and seems out to fleece those remaining record buyers - that's people like us lot here. Many people aren't paying for their music so those that are appear to be seen as some life-saving cash cow that are there to be milked dry and I've had enough of it. I would have loved to have bought that Beatles boxset or the Smile one, but the prices are outrageous. CD's were more expensive in the 90's than their comparative price today, but the Pet Sounds boxset was probably fifty quid max in the late 90's. There's no reason why Smile couldn't be an equivalent price.
Anyway, judging from the piece of this Compendium the book industry is presumably in the same disarray and out to fleece customers in the same way. They will no doubt tell me that it's a beautiful package and it might well be, but two hundred quid? TWO HUNDRED QUID? It's a disgrace. And for fuck's sake, we don't need leather covered books in this day and age. Really...
Elegant Chaos will never sound the same.
People I see
Just remind me of mooing
Like a cow on the grass
We don't need books to remind us of them as well.
So in case you hadn't guess, I'm not buying it. And that really pisses me off.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 14:58
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Readybrek will be giving it away in special packs. Actually... Do they do free gifts in cereals, anymore?
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necropolist
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Re: Copedium: info?
Mar 20, 2012, 15:05
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Kid Calamity wrote: But then, 'Punk' was quite a middle class thing, in reality.
with respect..... was it fuck.
And, I suspect the superduper packaging etc here is more down to Faber than Mr C.
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