AwayWeGo
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Posted: Aug. 26 2015, 19:50 |
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Quote (Cavalier (Lost Version) @ Aug. 26 2015, 18:27) | Commiserations, AwayWeGo - I don't think this is a search that's going to get any easier. If you haven't already, you could pick your way through the saga of the original release (and a related topic) here, but it was a relatively-limited edition in the end. The prices you're seeing reflect the box, book and discs to a point - sometimes the idea of the whole package creates value in the mind of the target audience - but in the case of Crises it's the rarity that is fuelling the asking prices. The tentative price of nigh-on £60 was adjusted to one in the low-thirties, which sold out in double-quick time. Some more were then produced but not in numbers to match the Oldfield fan-base. If you'd been looking in late 2013/early 2014 then you might have found one of the last few new copies from the standard retailers. Ever since, you and your kind have been at the mercy of the re-sellers, I'm afraid. |
Thank you for a well-written and well-thought-out response. I think you are right about the price being at the mercy of the sellers.
I want to say that, you may have noticed my, let's say, obsession with obtaining desired versions of Oldfield's albums by reading my entries on this site. I just sort of consider myself a music preservationist of sorts. We live in an age of mp3s and convenience where I dare say most people haven't a clue how to carefully copy music from an uncompressed CD and keep it in its original lossless form. I'm afraid that if I don't try my best to obtain these CDs, the original sound data files of old releases will be lost to time, not in the strict sense of the word (since SOMEONE will always have them), but in the sense that I won't be able to access them without paying so much that I can't eat that month. The same will likely be true for anyone else of normal income who may want to hear the original releases. It's just been causing me a lot of stress lately that I have money and the music exists, but there are so many barriers between the music and me, a willful paying customer.
I've also been going through this thing where I am realizing it's not fair that someone else, simply because of where and when they were born, may get to have a copy of an album forever, preserved in a digital code, but that I, someone who happened to be born somewhere else, cannot have that album, even though I have the same amount of money the other person used to obtain their copy. It isn't fair. Not now. Not in the age of the internet. It all comes down to corporate shenanigans and the music market, where profits outweigh the historical importance of music as a form of art to be preserved and not thrown away when its use is done.
Sorry for the rant. Anyway, thanks for replying (:
I suppose for more (and I would be curious to hear your opinion also), you could check out my latest post in the "General Discussion" section about the whole remastering practice and how it makes things harder on some of us.
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