Comments on: Don’t Buy Our Album, It’s Crap

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:17:27 +0000

OK, so what’s the odds that this is really a promotional stunt to sell tickets for the upcoming tour?

By: NRT

NRT — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:15:40 +0000

Keep up, Tim! – or maybe it was the Guardian.

Five hours before you posted that, the BBC reported that the album was being withdrawn and Sony BMG were investigating how it had been re-issued without Gillan’s approval.

Yes, re-issued – the slightly weird thing is that the live album had been released before, apparently without objections from the band.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6400545.stm

By: Serdar

Serdar — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:40:36 +0000

One of the first examples of this I can remember was the amazing amount of dross-from-the-vaults that RCA shoveled into record stores right after Elvis’s death. Some of them were little more than repackagings of existing material; some of them were (as Dave Marsh put it) at least novel forms of butchery, like tracks where they removed Elvis’s instrumental backing and just left his voice and the sparsest possible accompaniment; some of them were just junk like Elvis Having Fun on Stage, the single biggest rip-off record from a major label apart from Lou Reed’s f-you to RCA, Metal Machine Music.