---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jason Brunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I've got mixed feelings on the matter- it's great when you finally >track down a record you've been after (sometimes for YEARS), not so >nice when you have to pay more than a "reasonable" amount for it >(about £20-25 is the most I've ever paid for something, and rarely over >a tenner). We had a guy call the shop last week who wanted a whole >load of Chain Reaction releases but ONLY if they were in the original >"brown card" sleeves and NOT the "new" black ones- that's when it gets >a bit silly for me- we had them all so he was happy but it just struck >me as strange that he would have knocked them back had they been in a >different sleeve! thats just total nonsense. personally, i wish everyone who made good music kept it in press all the time. change the labels, i dont care. i dont like buying bootlegs so i wont. legit reissues im super cool with, like all the transmats and KMS that have come out in the last year. im less likely to be down with comps since they probably only paid out a flat fee to license those tunes, but in extreme cases (the arthur russel one on soul jazz with "in the light of the miracle" on it) ill go for that too. i dont give a crap about a record's rarity. the number of deejays playing actually good records already makes it a rarity to hear good stuff as it is. i just play good music. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com
