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Howburn Digger
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Re: Cope Re-Releases
Jan 10, 2018, 08:15
thesweetcheat wrote:
Howburn Digger wrote:

I remember when they issued JD's "Transmission" on 12". They gave it about 6 months.


One of Factory's best attributes was they kept the NO/JD catalogue in stock right until they went bust(!), at least as far as 12" singles went.

Mostly they just kept pressing stuff while there was demand for it.


Yeah, but "Transmission" wasn't ever a 12" when it was originally released back in October 1979. It was only a 7" single (I still have my copy in a textured pic sleeve). Then IC died in May 1980 and Factory waited just 6 months and then they cashed in with a 12" release in time for Christmas 1980. Re-packaging and reformatting JD/ IC old material to cash in on old fans and new. The original 7" was still available to anyone who wanted to buy a copy. But Factory had reformatted the extremely limited catalogue in order to expand the sales potential of JD material. "Buy both - and feel diseased"... I know... it "Paints a Vulgar Picture".

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