So your phone call offer was after you sent a complaint email? Mine was basically unsolicited. Although, the FB message did come fairly soon after I replied to Cam's comment about asking Blue Note about sending them a digital file of the liner notes/back cover with the comment: "Serious question - How would this digital file be different than the one that VMP said above did not exist?" This was in the thread where VMP had finally responded to the situation saying that Blue Note had told them the digital files for the cover did not exist and they had resorted to trying scanning originals. I had prefaced it "serious question" because I didn't want to come across as being a dick, but genuinely wanted to know since it was very odd if Blue Note already told them something didn't exist, why would they ask them for it again? Especially after they had gone through all that trouble over it with buying original albums and scanning them and then having to figure out different art.
I'd say this is is pretty good, except lose all mention of CD and the Dexter Gordon LP in the box set. Just make it about how the streaming format loses that appreciation for the physical art object that Blue Note albums were and the history and information in the liner notes and how important he feels that is?
Give it a while, at the rate of their price increases it's only matter of time.
I still laugh about that to this day. The perfect rebuttal. A simple screenshot of Barnes & Noble.com. Also if I'm correct that same person tried to get a staff member of staff fired for the Charles Manson record
I think if you really want him to directly address how the deal with deciding on the look of new reissues, this is as close as you can get. I would change the example to explicitly mention MM, something like: i.e. when Music Matters reissued Grant Green's Solid with the original, iconic Blue Note labels instead of the blue background with white or black B, what was the process like on deciding that?
Yeah, but I suppose it depends on the goal. I like this because it results in Don personally going on about how important those covers and liner notes are, but what you composed would get a response that more covers the process of deciding on changes to the look of reissues. To be honest, though, I think that would get more of a glossed over response, while I think he would wax poetic more about the importance of Blue Note LPs as art objects and liner notes as important material.
that is a good word for it
2 days turnaround on my seam split. Will be fixed by shipping a new one in a week or so.