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Also - and I fear posting this after seeing the Genesis thread comments - but 7 digital have Anthony Phillips Private parts (no pun intended) for £8.49/£9.99 for 5 discs
and
Tony Banks A Chord Too Far for £5.99/£6.99 for 4 discs.

This falls quite neatly into the category of “Music I wouldn’t have touched with a barge pole 30 years ago”, but which I find strangely relaxing and therapeutic nowadays.

Added to my Roon music library from Tidal, and I’ll probably also splash out £6.49 to purchase the 15 CD download from Qobuz as well.

Quite a contrast to the Tab Benoit and Alvin Lee albums I was listening to immediately prior to the Kitaro set!

Thanks for the tip!

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The new Yello album, Point (out today) is available on hiresaudio.com much cheaper than anywhere else at £15.70 and has another 15% off if ordered by the 31st.

Thanks for the heads up :slight_smile:

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Zavvi is doing a special “mystery pack” (ie you don’t know what you’re getting in advance) of 10 new jazz LPs for just £29.99 plus £1.99 UK postage. I’ve signed up for this - if any of the LPs turn out to be ones you’ve got, you can either give them away as presents or sell them; even if you only keep a couple, it’s probably a worthwhile exercise.

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All out of copyright DOL or similar releases
“mastered” from CD, no royalties or revenue going anywhere near the musicians or their estates.

There ought to be a law…

You know this, do you?

there’s a thought on another forum that these might be remainders from the Deagostini Jazz collection. apparently the pictures shown are LPs from that collection.

But, who knows. could either be great bargain or a heap of doo-doo

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No I don’t, please forgive my hasty reply, out of copyright reissues are a sore point with me, maybe they have the decimal point in the wrong position and it’s all kosher…the Deagostini theory would be a result of course at £29.99…we’ll see…

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That would be rather a pleasant surprise, if so. The few Deagostini Jazz titles I’ve listened to so far have been surprisingly good. Still, for £3 an LP it has to be worth a punt.

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I was often tempted by these but couldn’t decide if £15 a pop was worth doing or not!

Thought I should try one at least but rarely saw them in shops.

Apparently they aimed to do a 100 issues, not sure if they eventually did.

That was my thinking as well. I’m by no mean so a jazz aficionado…more an ageing prog rocker :slight_smile: , so ten “classic” (ahem) Jazz LPs at 3 quid a pop seemed a good deal, regardless of quality of pressings and such…the music should always come through. And having just dropped cash on a Tramp2 for the Sondek, it seems to me that I’d better use the d@mn thing! :grinning: :grinning: :grinning:

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Why don’t you believe 70 years is sufficient time to receive financial return from a sound recording?

Very simply I believe that if I or anyone else is prepared to purchase a recording 70 years or whenever after its creation the artist or artists estate should receive a percentage of the purchase price in perpetuity….IMHO.

I dislike these releases (DOL, AVID, NOT NOW etc) because they unfairly masquerade as something that they aren’t. They’re not illegal and no laws are being broken, but they feel wrong.

They aren’t mastered from original sources unless you count a commercial CD as that and people, especially the young with the vinyl resurgence, more than likely purchase them believing they are.

I wonder how many they would sell if the provenance was clearly stated on the sleeve? A government health warning….”This Recording has not been authorised by the original owners and is not mastered from the original source tapes and may damage your ears”.

Back to the music.

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I think your ire is misplaced @ChrisG - you should be lobbying the EU, US government, IFPI and other bodies for a change in copyright law. In fact, record companies, with a few honourable eceptions, have been robbing artists blind for decades. The same goes for the streaming services. And as for those most egregious flouters of copyright principles, the Chinese, don’t get me started.

The likes of Avid, DOL et al, are by no means the guiltiest of parties. In fact, they really are small fry. Look at UMG, Spotify, Sony, Warners, Pandora, Amazon, Apple, and the rest.

And as someone who works on a jazz magazine, I can tell you that Avid’s releases often find praise for their sound quality, presentation, curation and for unearthing obscure artists or difficult-to-find albums.

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Probably just as many. Most people really don’t care about that stuff. People like us on this forum are a tiny minority.

Well. I’m not angry and my apologies if I come over that way, I just think it’s wrong. Perhaps Avid was a poor example, but DOL and NOT NOW appear to issue commonly available albums to catch the unaware. There was no criticism of forum members intended and even as a minority we can make a difference no matter how small by spreading the word and not purchasing these.

Kev - I think you know it goes far deeper than this, especially when you look at the financials of some music rights owning businesses, where money is fed from the likes of the MCPS and akin and then, lo & behold, the rightsco. doesn’t often know how to split this money across artistes/isn’t even in contact with same - so it isn’t paid on.

End result, cash builds up and then gets spent in other directions (best no more said on this). A bit like the ‘orphan funds’ in some insuranceco’s…but they have to ring fence these AFAIK.

20% off Sale now on at Blue Note - stock up on those Tone Poets and BN80s :grin::+1:

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The best $1 (plus tax) you’ll have spent in a long while.

On Bandcamp

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