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Post by gzutt on Jul 1, 2009 3:29:50 GMT
Agreed on pretty much all fronts. We're definitely lucky with the Whitehouse reissues, excellent quality and reasonable price, if they keep coming I'll keep buying them. No way I'm paying $700 or whatever for the original tape version WSOTG or even the original Psychopathia LP though. My main concern is utmost audio quality and you're not going to get much of that with either, especially the tapes. No fucking way would I be content with the masturbatory self satisfaction of showing off my dinged up original pressing when I play it and the surface noise is audible at all times.
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Post by ottom on Jul 23, 2009 19:20:06 GMT
What on earth do you all do for a living that you can afford vinyl and tapes for hundreds of pounds/dollars a piece? I solicit myself to unsuspecting young Russian women outside of my 40-hour workweek. It gets the job done now that I have a real-life issue called ¡§paying the rent¡¨, which used to be ¡§music shopping spree¡¨.
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Post by ottom on Jul 23, 2009 19:22:17 GMT
I would be the type to appreciate the cassette-quality of WSOTG (not going against the above-posters, either). Does it excuse someone paying triple-digits for it? No. See the very first post on this thread. I may never know the exact quality of the original cassettes, but hearing them on cassette in general is totally esthetic and kinesthetic for each person.
So then there¡¦d be very mixed reactions of finding digital-quality works that originated on cassette, let alone that defeats the purpose of ¡§cassette-quality¡¨.
I had searched for these cassettes on file-trading sites because the stories and history behind them are very interesting, and the opportunity to make cassettes out of them is very obvious because there could be very little chance for artists to secure re-releases or even sample clearances. I admit it¡¦s what I¡¦d do. It¡¦s a technological loophole. I¡¦m just the type of person that if the means are possible for cassettes, then there, pending that there¡¦s the sad reality that it may never see re-release. And if I have them, I have them. I¡¦m not that explicit in having the ¡¥real¡¦ thing in this case.
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Post by Lord Cornwallis on Aug 6, 2009 22:33:47 GMT
What's this I hear about reissuing only parts of WSOTG?? WTF?! Who wants that? Fucking nobody, man! They better not fuck up on this one. Really man. That is going to piss the fanatics/collectors off hard, motherfucker! Total fucking blueballs if that happens. All of WSOTG please in its fucking entirety and dont waste our time with bonus live etc. tracks.
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Post by pissfun on Oct 23, 2012 6:35:38 GMT
so what's it been 4 or 5 years and still no sign of that boxset with some (or all) of WSOTG included. from what I understand they released the fundamentally pointless Archive 4 box a year ago as a palliative but I've seen nothing to confirm (or deny) that remastering of WSOTG is ongoing.
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Post by Danhod on Oct 23, 2012 11:37:29 GMT
Archive 4 was a bargain!
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