> This is just beyond ridiculous. First of all, I can't imagine either
> the Ryko or the Rhino reissues sold all that many copies. What could
> possibly be the financial incentive to keep re-releasing this stuff in
> different formats?
Costs 40 cents to press a silver disk and they retail for $20. You don't
have to do a lot of volume.
> Fourth, aren't Elvis Costello
> fans a notoriously snarky bunch who don't take too kindly to buying
> the same albums over and over again in slightly different formats?
No, they're a notoriously snarky yet gullible bunch who have already
forked
it over 4 times--vinyl, Columbia CD, Ryko CD, and Rhino CD. Universal
knows
50,000 suckers when they see them.
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