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- From: dap@portal.vpharm.com (David A. Pearlman)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Pink Floyd is TOO MUCH
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172113.2319@portal.vpharm.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:21:13 GMT
- References: <168C4950A.KCSCHIE@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Organization: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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- In article <168C4950A.KCSCHIE@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu> KCSCHIE@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu writes:
- >Before you pop down $100-150 for this new Floyd set, consider this:
- >It is unlikely that many of these sets will sell at such a high price.
- >Eventually they will probably release the newly remastered discs
- >individually, perhaps even the rarities disc. I'll wait for that before
- >I spend that kind of cash on music I already have. After all, I've got
- >both the gold disc releases of DSOTM and The Wall and they sound great.
- >I also have the Harvest import of Animals, and it also sounds good. I'd
- >love a remastered WYWH. While we're on the subject of the new box, I'll
- >flame this: what a waste of money and time to include MLOR in the set!
- >I would hope it sounded as good as it could the first time it was released.
- >
- >Cheers!
-
- In fact, Momentary Lapse of Reason (MLOR) is the only album in the
- box that was NOT remastered for this release. If more objective heads
- had prevailed, it wouldn't have been in the box at all (I talked to someone
- behind the scenes and he said that only after tense business negotiations
- was MLOR included). But it is what it is...
-
- dap
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- David A. Pearlman
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- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. email: dap@vpharm.com
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