Cheaper music means more money for drugs

[Patrick]

That's right -- 8 additions to the Matador Mid-Price Classics series -- CDs for 10 bucks.

Great albums from Belle and Sebastian, R.L. Burnside, Cat Power, Cornelius, Mogwai, Pavement (two of them), and Yo La Tengo.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/midlineclassics.php

Patrick

[TheSadDebaser]

whoa, awesome

[tinobeat]

how do you decide what goes in the cheapo pile and what doesn't?

mount florida in the xxxtra cheap pile? its sweet to be able to get that for $8, but just wondering why that's there and something else from that year isn't.

And if the PGMG CD is only $10 for 4-5 more days, why's the Dead Meadow still with no deadline, despite its earlier release date? is it based on # of copies sold?

you know me, always full of questions...

[Patrick]

Ah, the vagaries of pricing... it's to do with contracts, history and when we think the market can stand a price increase, basically... and when we think the market needs a price decrease on catalog titles that aren't selling as well as they could.

CD pricing needs to be more elastic than it has been the past, and you're likely to see much more of this industrywide, in both directions, and often changing several times for given titles.

Patrick

[jt. r]

this is true in denmark at least. older titles get cheaper and newer ones are more expensive. when i last visited in '99 the dollar was way up and prices hadn't changed since i was on exchange in '96. it was like denmark was on sale (insert mall of europe comment here). stereo studio as lame as it is, is cheap, but then i'd end up talking beach boys with the guys at aarhus' badestue rock. (bathroom rock)

i'm glad to hear that these prices are changing. it's exciting to finally not feel sheepish about picking up "classics"

[Squall91]

I love you.

[9000]

Originally posted by Squall91
I love you.


"cheaper music means more time for hugs" was scrapped at the last minute.

[Squall91]

Originally posted by 9000
"cheaper music means more time for hugs" was scrapped at the last minute. Heh, funny thing. I'd appreciate a hug more than drugs since I'm a drug-free kinda person.

[tinobeat]

dope's for dopes.

booze, however, is for, um, totally sweet awesome kids... or something.

[Paul]

Originally posted by tinobeat
booze, however, is for, um, totally sweet awesome kids... or something.

Martin, we've all been meaning to have a talk with you...would you mind pulling up a chair?

[tinobeat]

*drag* *scrape*

what's goin on? I was wondering why everyone was always awkward around me...

[Paul]

It's just that some of us have noticed you...um, er, you're a goddamned filthy alcoholic!

[TheSadDebaser]

No one ever gives me any booze.

[otto midnight]

i actually tried to give tino booze once and he politely turned me down.

true story.

[bitterfruit]

What's more odd is that this thread is sticky. Hmmm.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
What's more odd is that this thread is sticky. Hmmm.

Tinobeat has that effect on threads...and women...and public transportation seats...