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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have in my paws four deluxe 2CD reissue packages of 808 State albums - namely 808:90, Ex:El, Gorgeous and Don Solaris.

This thread isn't really about the merits of 808 State though.* I just find it interesting that a band who were - after their initial emergence and big hit anyhow - fairly minor are getting this tombstone luxury reissue treatment.

Will there come a time when everyone who strung together a 3 or 4 album career in the 80s or 90s has these kind of monuments? And where's the cutoff - who were the first band to hit cult status with an audience who simply won't care about CD reissues?

*FWIW my at-the-time responses to these were (in order) bit chilly; great stuff; disappointing; never heard.

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[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Discussing the "controversy" surrounding the £90 deluxe version of the new Dylan Bootleg series comp, it was suggested seriously by Mark Radcliffe on R2 the other night that ppl would buy it for the packaging and not the music. The implication was that the future of marketing to fans was to give them artefacts or memorabilia with, pro tem, a free CD thrown in. Eventually even the CD will be dispensed with, I assume.

Re: cut off point. Not Radiohead or The White Stripes; they'll definitely get the reissue treatment sooner or later. Narcade Fire, maybe?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it is true! i signed up to the (hyuge) buffy-angel dvd subscription reissue in order to get a FREE MUG (which is rawther small in my massive-tummed opinion)