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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ggw on March 29, 2004, 12:04:00 am

Title: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: ggw on March 29, 2004, 12:04:00 am
Deep discounts on the Rough Trade catalog at Best Buy
 
 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?j=1&id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category&cmp= (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?j=1&id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category&cmp=)
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 10:43:00 am
Your link just takes me to best buy "cookes not enabled".....But they are.
 
 How do I navigate to the sale? I did see The Tyde, twice was only $8.99 which is a fantastic price for a great album.
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 29, 2004, 10:52:00 am
i was wondering about the link figured it was just my non microsloth browsers...
 
 and being cynical how indie is a label who Manufactured and distributed in the US by BMG distribution, a unit of BMG Entertainment.  Last time i checked BMG wasn't very indie  :)
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: ggw on March 29, 2004, 10:53:00 am
The link works fine for me.
 
 Try this one:
 
  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category)
 
 Or, go to the home page, select the "Music, Movies and Games" tab.  Then, under "This Week's Entertainment Offers," select "music."  Then Scroll down to "Huge Sale on Rough Trade CDs"
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 10:54:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
 
 and being cynical how indie is a label who Manufactured and distributed in the US by BMG distribution, a unit of BMG Entertainment.  Last time i checked BMG wasn't very indie   :)  
Do you think the acts on Rough Trade get a couple of million up front, then if they dont do well, get dropped after two albums?
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 10:55:00 am
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Try this one:
 
  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat27000050021&type=category)
 
 
Ding ding DING!!!!!
 
 
 Thankyou.
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 10:58:00 am
Oooooops. I have 15 out of the 24 already. I guess I am a rough trade fan.
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 29, 2004, 11:07:00 am
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
   
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
 
 and being cynical how indie is a label who Manufactured and distributed in the US by BMG distribution, a unit of BMG Entertainment.  Last time i checked BMG wasn't very indie    :)  
Do you think the acts on Rough Trade get a couple of million up front, then if they dont do well, get dropped after two albums? [/b]
Rough Trade and Sanctuary Records who own them are "major" indies who i'm sure have more favorable record contracts.  i just find it ironic that they are so tightly joined with BMG which is hardly a indie company.  being distributed BMG does have it advantages, but does it mean that BMG can then reject a product because it doesn't meet it's standards?
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 11:18:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   but does it mean that BMG can then reject a product because it doesn't meet it's standards?
I doubt it somehow. Some of the records are quite odd/poor. I cannot imagine the bulk of Rough trades artist acheiving high sale, can you?
 
 I really dont care if they are an indie or not as long as they keep putting out records by Adam Green, the Tyde, the Libertines et al
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: Bags on March 29, 2004, 11:34:00 am
I've heard really mixed responses to Fiery Furnaces.  They were showing up for a while as one of 2003's "it" bands, but I've heard from regular folks (ie, not music critics) that they pretty much blow.
 
 Boardies?
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: skonster on March 29, 2004, 11:39:00 am
I think the album is pretty good/interesting, but not one I listen to that often.  The lead woman singer's vocals can be a bit grating (female version of the guy from stellastar? maybe? - I don't have either album in front of my so that may be a bad comparison), and the album sounds as if it could dissolve into a complete mess at any moment but manages to hold together.
 
 
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Originally posted by Bags:
  I've heard really mixed responses to Fiery Furnaces.  They were showing up for a while as one of 2003's "it" bands, but I've heard from regular folks (ie, not music critics) that they pretty much blow.
 
 Boardies?
Title: Re: Indie Records on sale at Corporate Behemoth
Post by: markie on March 29, 2004, 12:04:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bags:
  I've heard really mixed responses to Fiery Furnaces.  They were showing up for a while as one of 2003's "it" bands, but I've heard from regular folks (ie, not music critics) that they pretty much blow.
 
 Boardies?
I reviewed it for Bigyawn.net
 
 I would go and see them live, but I found the album moderately annoying.