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Elitism or financial necessity for small labels? Can you think of an example where something was stupidly insanely limited considering the size of an artists' fanbase? What are the motivations for doing so, do you suppose?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the endless series of Muslimgauze limited editions made perfect sense, both before and after he died. And I own quite a few of them!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

And to be a bit less cryptic -- they made sense because the size of the fanbase was large enough to warrant them but small enough not to order general releases as for the rest (even though the audience overlap was almost one to one).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes it gets really irritating though - especially when there's hype involved. It frustrates me no end to try and get hold of a record in the first week of release to find it's sold out already.

Why are record companies / bands so keen to let records, for which there's an obvious demand, go out of print so quickly? Hello, I have money that I'd like to spend, and you don't want it???

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I found Stereolab's endless one off singles a little frustrating but they've been pretty good about compiling them.

― Winkelmann, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

As the person who runs a label that's pressed a bunch of things in extremely limited editions (from 3 copies to 100), there's something I really like about making stuff in a fancy handmade way for an audience that's naturally fairly small. (Among the limited-edition things I've released, the only case where demand has significantly exceeded supply is Franklin Bruno's _Growth Spurt_ EP, which I imagine will show up on his singles comp anyway.)

― Douglas, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

according to stereolab website, there were only 3000 total copies of sound-dust on LP, which i thought was too few. i saw one of the 'book' ones, reportedly one of the REM guys bought it. fek if i'm paying 65 dollars for that album.

― ron (ron), Thursday, 22 August 2002 05:38 (twenty-three years ago)

where would new zealands so-called-arty droned stoned industriously lazy bunch of shamen be w/out limited editions ?

limit supply, push up demand

no possibility for there to be any consensus on whether the music's any good if no-one's heard too much of it

(actually, these particular new zealanders are pretty embarrassing)

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 22 August 2002 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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