Tony L
Administrator
A thread to express moral outrage and indignation about hugely important titles that are currently out of print. I shall start with:
#1 Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man. The revolution will not be reissued, repackaged or rereleased. His greatest album and one of the most important records made in the whole of the 1970s. At the moment if you want a copy you have to buy a compressed MP3, 'unofficial' vinyl, or find a copy of the long-deleted 2001 CD lying around on the internet somewhere. I am absolutely stunned such a wonderful and hugely influential album is unavailable.
#2, #3 & #4. Kraftwerk 1, 2, and Ralph & Florian. Yes Mr Hütter and Mr Schneider, we can see the mound under the carpet where you tried to brush history in the hope no one would notice. But we did notice. We saw what you did there, and many of us still have the original vinyl, and we'll keep telling people about it because we think it's rather good. You can't just slam the car door and drive away from your back catalogue. (amazingly these three titles have never had an official digital release, any CDs out there are pirates taken from needle-drops of vinyl, likewise any non-1970s Vertigo or Philips vinyl is a fake - these are very widely pirated titles, and the same goes for the pre-Kraftwerk RCA Organisation album.)
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#1 Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man. The revolution will not be reissued, repackaged or rereleased. His greatest album and one of the most important records made in the whole of the 1970s. At the moment if you want a copy you have to buy a compressed MP3, 'unofficial' vinyl, or find a copy of the long-deleted 2001 CD lying around on the internet somewhere. I am absolutely stunned such a wonderful and hugely influential album is unavailable.
#2, #3 & #4. Kraftwerk 1, 2, and Ralph & Florian. Yes Mr Hütter and Mr Schneider, we can see the mound under the carpet where you tried to brush history in the hope no one would notice. But we did notice. We saw what you did there, and many of us still have the original vinyl, and we'll keep telling people about it because we think it's rather good. You can't just slam the car door and drive away from your back catalogue. (amazingly these three titles have never had an official digital release, any CDs out there are pirates taken from needle-drops of vinyl, likewise any non-1970s Vertigo or Philips vinyl is a fake - these are very widely pirated titles, and the same goes for the pre-Kraftwerk RCA Organisation album.)
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