yep. The most recent restocks on both I believe were the last copies. Probably only restocked a few copies this time. The sell out though includes the albums purchased by stores. Twisted Sister at least is still in stores everywhere here. I think it was 3,000 copies total.
Yes, that is exactly why I think licensing is a big issue now. I'd bet between us, we could come up with a list of close to 100 albums between 1984 and 1986 that deserve MoFi level treatment more than Twisted Sister. Makes one think that labels and rights holders are being a lot more hesitant about licensing.
But I wanna rock...
The three biggest names of the past year: Dylan, Miles, and Cash have all been Columbia.
I’ve said it before but there’s nothing stopping the big labels from going straight to RTI to press their own One Steps or audiophile pressings. MoFi doesn’t own anything proprietary as far as I know. We have seen it with Rhino and Craft and Blue Note. There’s no reason to give their best titles over to MoFi. The labels own the music already, so just skip MoFi. If MoFi wants to pay to license Twisted Sisfer the labels are fine with it.
I am interested in the one step licensing, because that's a relatively new thing. I could see the bigger labels saying sure, you can do 2LP 45rpm supervinyl editions and we get the 33 rpm. Craft getting into the one step game is a big deal due to the amounts of rights they hold. Curious if you see Sony or Universal get into that game soon.
..........and yet, for the most part, they don't do it. In my opinion, in time, the "Audiophile" pressing craziness will die down, the thing is that for whatever reason it's become THE hot item to EVERYONE. I mentioned this before, but it seems like pretty much all the Youtubers have glommed on to these pressings, when in the past it wasn't even a thought.
I definitely agree that flippers and releasing these albums in batches instead of dropping the entire print run at once has created the FOMO hook, line and sinker...........and yet, for the most part, they don't do it. In my opinion, in time, the "Audiophile" pressing craziness will die down, the thing is that for whatever reason it's become THE hot item to EVERYONE. I mentioned this before, but it seems like pretty much all the Youtubers have glommed on to these pressings, when in the past it wasn't even a thought.
On top of that, I still think the bulk is being snatched up by flippers, they have nothing better to do than camp and wait, and there's always some green behind the ear, new to the hobby, buyer that just buys the OOP hook, line and sinker. When the casual buyer of these pressings wakes up and starts to ask "Why", because they went that route for the wrong reason in the first place and sales start to dwindle in the aftermarket and flippers end up having to sell near purchase price, all we be back to normal................I can dream
..........and yet, for the most part, they don't do it. In my opinion, in time, the "Audiophile" pressing craziness will die down, the thing is that for whatever reason it's become THE hot item to EVERYONE. I mentioned this before, but it seems like pretty much all the Youtubers have glommed on to these pressings, when in the past it wasn't even a thought.
On top of that, I still think the bulk is being snatched up by flippers, they have nothing better to do than camp and wait, and there's always some green behind the ear, new to the hobby, buyer that just buys the OOP hook, line and sinker. When the casual buyer of these pressings wakes up and starts to ask "Why", because they went that route for the wrong reason in the first place and sales start to dwindle in the aftermarket and flippers end up having to sell near purchase price, all we be back to normal................I can dream
There are definitely flippers buying these but I don’t think it’s only them...the Hoffman crowd and MoFi usual crowd are buying them up like crazy too...and MoFi albums have almost always held their value and gone up. It’s not something new. The thing that will change is MoFi saying they will keep most new releases in print and not limited to 4,000 copies or whatever. Dire Straits is an example of that. Flippers will still say “OOP!” when the albums aren’t in stock but if you keep up on what’s not limited then if ya miss a repress just wait for the next one...........and yet, for the most part, they don't do it. In my opinion, in time, the "Audiophile" pressing craziness will die down, the thing is that for whatever reason it's become THE hot item to EVERYONE. I mentioned this before, but it seems like pretty much all the Youtubers have glommed on to these pressings, when in the past it wasn't even a thought.
On top of that, I still think the bulk is being snatched up by flippers, they have nothing better to do than camp and wait, and there's always some green behind the ear, new to the hobby, buyer that just buys the OOP hook, line and sinker. When the casual buyer of these pressings wakes up and starts to ask "Why", because they went that route for the wrong reason in the first place and sales start to dwindle in the aftermarket and flippers end up having to sell near purchase price, all we be back to normal................I can dream
Totally agree, but they are also part of the big UME machine. The fact that Verve/Impulse seems to be struggling with trying to the same thing and they are part of the same umbrella group shows how hard it can be.
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