Re: How am I supposed to come up with $320?
- From: "Richard Loeb" <loeb123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:41:54 -0400
"Eric Nagamine" <enaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard Loeb wrote:I thought we were talking about why the Siegfried is on 4 CDs and the theory
"Eric Nagamine" <enaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard Loeb wrote:
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Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James Kahn) appears to have caused the
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In <dd2dnWN1j-vzvnrZnZ2dnUVZ_rOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx> "William
Sommerwerck"
<gizzledgeezer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I just sent the following to Testament, with a subject line of "not
buying the Keilbreth Ring"...
"Because you have chosen to spread these recordings over more sides
than
necessary (thus adding inappropriate side breaks), and you are
charging
full-price for 50-year-old recordings...
"I've decided to wait until these are remaindered at a low price
before
I purchase them."
Yes, let the record companies know that classical music buyers won't
pay
top dollar for top quality recordings--is that really a great message
to
send? I understand the gripe about four vs. three disks for the
convenience factor, but all the complaining about price seems to me
misguided. How is the fact that it's a 50-year-old recording
relevant?
I'd rather reward companies for bringing good stuff out of the vaults
and pay top dollar. (Obviously I'd rather pay less than more, but
I'd
rather have more available. That's more likely to happen if they can
charge more.)
The message I'd send is: Yes, we will pay fair prices for recordings,
and
*perhaps* premium prices for particularly special ones. BUT THIS IS
GOUGING!"
--
Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!
Only a couple of points but here goes anyway.
Testament are not a pirate label. They pay for recordings they
licence/license as I understand.
Maybe the only way they could keep their profit margin (which they
clearly must have if they are to stay in business) was to spread the
recordings over "more" discs?
I understand it is worse in America but some of that may be down to the
distributor/exchange rate?
My understanding (via a friend at MDT) is that the sales have been very
high, requiring repressing in some cases I believe.
Being by nature an optimist I would hope that the sales figures of Mr
Keilberth's Ring may well ultimately subsidise other worthwhile
reissues which will not achieve similar sales figures.
Seems to me that it is similar to music making. If you want a
particular conductor/soloist you meet their fee.....or you hire someone
else.
Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins
What I heard ( may or may not be true) was they just copied the same
side breaks as in one of the other sets and didn't really think about
whether it would fit on three CDs - could be Richard
Supposedly the took the original LP side breaks as Decca cut them at the
time, especially since I've heard that Testament plan an LP release of
the set.
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Aloha and Mahalo,
Eric Nagamine
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/mahlerb/broadcaststartpage.html
No the Decca side breaks for the Siegfried LP set are different Richard
????? Since Decca never issued the Siegfried previously and AFAIk,
Testament hasn't issued their LP's yet.
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Aloha and Mahalo,
Eric Nagamine
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/mahlerb/broadcaststartpage.html
was that they copied the CD breaks from another (I don't know which) set. I
only said that the Testament CDs don;t match the Decca breaks in any way -
must be some other set. Richard
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