WHat Up with the Crappy Sleeve

[LEFTHANDLOU]

Just picked up the re-released Boards of Canada Twoism Vinyl, and boy did Warp Cheeze out on the Sleeve and Label. I mean okay we all know that its a re-release, and the original was rare and all that shit, but come on man.......Using stickers on a white label ....what crap. Its was a cool graphic on the original too, now they reduced it to a size of a fucking stamp.

Talk about going ass backwards, their last album's vinyl was decked out, full color graphics on a fold out, with inner sleeve graphics, colored labels.....And even that cool engraved family on one side of the third album. Now this shit..... I mean they did'nt cheap out on the CD version of the release! Whats the deal.

[pille'ocheoni]

sounds like a riot needs to be started:)heheheheh.yeah we got the copy of the cd,not the vinyl yet.but that sucks.well.what the fuck is designers republic doing!they are bad ass ,and always pump out good shite.:(

[Ruben A]

hehe..strange. Putting stickers on whitelabels cost almost the same as a rare color label....in production..!? So whyy...

[Sheridan]

because it makes it more 'underground'.

[wheezer]

I thought for a second there in my early-morning stupor that you wanted to know what's up with Trackhead Steve?

This actual topic interests me much less! :)

[grobelaar]

I don't like re-release labels, its cheesy commercial shite that engenders 'collector' culture... I particular hate it when the graphics have big splashy Re-release all over it, does my head in...

If the music is good and people want it then re-press for sure, but don't go turning the originals into these precious things that nobody dare play, or touch, "no, don't even look"

And probably totally ironic that some of the people who'll probably cough up cash for a re-release version are DJs that probably made the original popular in the first place by playing it loads and thus their original copy now consists of a few faint groves on a piece of vinyl...

[ischo]

warp just ain't what it used to be....

[gunjack]

what is?

[tsr_tomas]

still the worst re-relese ever is probably Dopplereffekts album on Gigolo... talk about re-relesing 3totaly underground hard toget records into a album.
i can tell you that many people who had bought the original´s where pretty mad =)

but still... i´m one of the suckers who bought a copy of the album, haha !

[LEFTHANDLOU]

Wow in retrospect I think I was a bit harsh yesterday in my post, but I'm more a collector than a DJ, and I think great DJ's are great collectorsso it all goes hand in hand. Twoism is a great album, but i already had all the songs on there. I think one of the best things about collecting vinyl is the large space for graphics, I don' know about you guys but these things are important to me.

Now i understand that they may be trying to distinguish the re- release from the original so that they don't piss of the 600- 700 people that had the original, but fuck this is a bit extreme. Anyway at least I have it on vinyl.

[Mercedez Ben]

what the fuck IS up with trackhead steve?

"crazy wild"

[wheezer]

well I would've thought our windy city crew might've been able to clear things up, but obviously I am mistaken... last sign of life I have from the man is a joint production with Paul Johnson on Dust Traxx, and that record has got to be like 4+ years old...

AND I'M STILL MISSING THAT RELIEF REKKID WITH THE CRAZY WILD TRACK ON IT! ARRRRRRRRGH!