Re: Pixies - Minotaur

--- In [email protected], George Partakides <geopart@...> wrote:
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> First things first.  Vaughan is a university professor now?  Is there no more of V23?  Now that I think, of it I can't remember the last time I saw a V23 cover in a 4AD release.  Not this year certainly.  Or am I wrong?

The Big Pink artwork is done by v23 - they still very much exist! They're currently working on the Japanese Big Pink EP (which is 5-6 tracks, plus videos) - I think set for release in June?

> Then, $ 450.00?  Are they serious?  This whole thing is ridiculous, isn't it?  These guys released 5 studio albums, then you got the CDs, then the Japanese re-issues, then the UK re-issues, then there were so many compilations, then the live albums and now this?  What is the phrase you Anglosaxons are using, flogging a dead horse?  Blah, record collecting...there is no romance in it anymore!  

I'm not sure why it's happening - I don't know enough about the label that is doing it, but it looks like they specialise in deluxe packaging and reissuing albums like this (looking at the ones that are pictured in the trailer). It does seem a lot to buy something which is basically something most people already have, plus the Brixton DVD (of which there's been plenty of bootlegs knocking around for god knows how long). Not sure about this blu-ray stuff, as I don't have any means of playing it! One day, maybe..

>This is going to be my last year of collecting 4AD.  After that I am quitting.  30 years is enough, isn't it?  I will only be buying occasionally, stuff I really like, like Beirut and Bon Iver.  I mean, Future of the Left?  I would have never bought it if it wasnt on 4AD.  And it is on 4AD because there is no more Too Pure.  Anni Rossi?  Give me Lisa Germano any time.

Funnily enough, we're just listening to a test pressing of the new FOTL album and it's sounding pretty good (I liked their Too Pure stuff anyway, and loved McLusky).

> Oh well, the times they are really a-changing.  Or maybe I am just getting old.  47 for God's sake!!!!!

Heh, if it's any consolation, we're all getting old! I'm currently trying to find a decent storage solution for all my CD's, and am getting rid of a lot to make space, only keeping what I really want to keep.




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