Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (07/27/90)
Really-From: portuesi%tweezers.esd@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) >>>>> On 27 Jul 90 19:21:00 GMT, Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU said: > Really-From: <GREINER%UCLASTRO.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> > The CD box set with the extra two or three discs with b-sides and > rarities sounds great, but will the b-side discs be sold seperately as > well? If it includes all the discs it will be darn expensive. It also > would seem like a strange marketing stratagy, since most people who > would be interested in a rarities disc probably have all the normal > discs already. It's a great marketing strategy from their point of view. Only the Kate Bush fanatics like us will be really interested in the b-sides and rarities, and they know we will pay most anything to get them, even if we have to buy another copy of all Kate's albums to do so. The elasticity of demand (if I may borrow an economic term) is so high that they'll still sell well, even with the added burden of the other albums. And those other albums make money for the record company. > I suppose they will be "special edition collectors items" > or what not but for those of us on limited budgets a seperate realise would > be very convient. Oh well, either way it's great news! Maybe we won't have > to wait 5 to 10 years for a major Kate Bush realise after all! My question is whether or not the CD Box Set will be released by CBS here in the United States, or if we're going to have to pay even *MORE* to get the import version. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "man, this is weak."
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (07/28/90)
Really-From: <GREINER%UCLASTRO.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
The CD box set with the extra two or three discs with b-sides and
rarities sounds great, but will the b-side discs be sold seperately as
well? If it includes all the discs it will be darn expensive. It also
would seem like a strange marketing stratagy, since most people who
would be interested in a rarities disc probably have all the normal
discs already. I suppose they will be "special edition collectors items"
or what not but for those of us on limited budgets a seperate realise would
be very convient. Oh well, either way it's great news! Maybe we won't have
to wait 5 to 10 years for a major Kate Bush realise after all!
Wade G.Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (07/28/90)
Really-From: adobe!!dkletter@decwrl.dec.com (Akbar & Jeff's SUPPORT GROUP for the vaguely dissatisfied) Michael Portuesi (portuesi@sgi.com) sez: >It's a great marketing strategy from their point of view. Only the >Kate Bush fanatics like us will be really interested in the b-sides >and rarities, and they know we will pay most anything to get them, >even if we have to buy another copy of all Kate's albums to do so. >The elasticity of demand (if I may borrow an economic term) is so high >that they'll still sell well, even with the added burden of the other >albums. And those other albums make money for the record company. or they could be completely stupid like what Elektra did with the Cure's boxed set of singles that were already previously available and the only extra thing you paid for was a keen box and a rather boring poster. not to mention that if you bought all those singles separately, it would cost LESS than the !@#$^!1! boxed set. there are gud boxed sets and then there are crummy ones. i just hope they aren't trying to make a fast buck because i only have two Kate albums on CD and if it's really worth waiting for the box, i'll do it. --d "not meaning to inject any pessimism" -- "Yellow... black and rectangular... with wedged shapes inside... Oh, I see them everywhere... Am I losing my mind?"