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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-14 10:41 [#00308758]
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ok, people here have been listening to Gantz Graf for like
the past month at least, and its not due till August. And
Squarepusher too... and its not even out till september...

this is madness...

my question is... why is it out there? Do you think that the
labels intentionally leak it on the net, so word wil spread
(although they deny it and then blame mp3s for killin record
sales) or do you think that its some punk ass that has
access to the new material, and puts it on the net... or the
artist themselves, by thier own free will?

But i mean, how many people really have access to it before
its released?

If i released a cd, id want to have some mystery to it... id
make sure no one could leak it on the net... so the cd
release date would be a bigger event...

i dunno... just some thoughts im throwing around at 5:40 am


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-07-14 10:48 [#00308761]
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it's gets on the internet from promo copies that are sent to
radio stations and record companies and special people.

or at least that's my understanding.
i may be wrong.


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2002-07-14 11:02 [#00308764]
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Yeah, and the promo material has very little or no cover
art.



 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2002-07-14 11:13 [#00308770]
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Maybe leaked mp3's increase exposure, not hurting cd sales
at all. That'd be my guess, plus a while back there was some
post about how the decline in cd sales could be accounted
for the general economic environment not necessarily the
introduction of the mp3 format?


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-14 11:27 [#00308774]
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yeah, I do wonder whether it ruins the excitement
sometimes...but I think they just accept now that it's gonna
be leaked onto the net and in a way, it does build up a buzz
for a record...& i kinda suspect some of the leaks are
internal to the label anyway be that artists themselves or
label staff...

I still get excited over releases even if I've already got
em, GG I've had for ages (poster, video & Mp3s) but I'll
still be buying it on day 1 (or before if pos:)...for the
artwork, better quality & to support the artist/label...

same goes for anything else I've had before the actual
release date...I think that's true for anyone who's into
this sort of stuff...

(and for a golden example of leaking check Radioheads Kid
A...certainly didn't seem to do that any harm and that's
more or less a mainstream release...I believe even RH
themselves were very pleased at the way the leaks built up a
buzz around the record...)...


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2002-07-14 12:06 [#00308780]
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Yeah, its also a good way to spread around your own TRACKS.
There r still people on SLSK who are sharing my Geodgaddi
fakes.......


 

offline hannibal from United Kingdom on 2002-07-14 14:41 [#00308805]
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they must have sent out gantz graf promos very early if
they've already been on the net for ages. whats the
reasoning behind that?


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-14 15:20 [#00308812]
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I think WARP were intending to release GG a while
back...delayed and then was set for July...

Delayed again to Aug 5th...

Think it might have been problems with getting the DVD
together but not 100% sure...the poster I've got is from
NOV2001 and that's a still from the GG vid so it must have
been done for a while...


 


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