Music to our ears
David Power from Lucan has got in touch with rare news of a genuine bargain. The Doors back catalogue has been reissued by Elektra/Rhino Records/WEA, a move which involved the remaining Doors members and the original producers remastering the tracks from the original tapes.
“Among other things, they reinstated items that were censored from the original albums,” says Power, and the sleeves include new notes and custom CD cases plus bonus tracks.
“All of the above normally results in the price of re-released back-catalogue discs increasing towards the €20 mark, but these reissues are available for €9.99. WEA are to be congratulated,” he says. He stresses that he has no connection with any record company and is of the opinion that that this is the way the music industry should be marketing music: “Flogging non-CD-quality music on the internet for a euro per track is not the way forward.”
An expensive way to stand out from the mainstream masses