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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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[pastels-badge.livejournal.com]

The deluxe reissue phenomenon is totally all about having an artefact and about the associated cultural capital, I think. We were talking about this in a class of mine and my professor called it "the revenge of the object." I think I might have to write a paper about it.