spoon_of_grimbo: Ground Rules For Re-releases...

spoon_of_grimbo 09.14.07	1. An album must be AT LEAST five years old to be worth re-releasing!!! 2. Futhermore, it should either suffer from terrible production (and I mean terrible, not just a bit shoddy. If it was meant to sound a bit rough, leave it that way!), or be currently out-of-print/hard-to-find, if it's to be worth the re-release treatment. 3. If I already own the original album, I don't want to have to pay full album price for a handful of b-sides... 4. ...Unless of course there's enough of those outtakes to make a whole album, in which case, fuck bonus discs, release it as a separate album INSTEAD of the re-release! 5. Fancy new artwork does not warrant a re-release. There's too many albums with shit artwork, so if someone gives you some good new art, save it for a later release and spread the goodness! CONTINUED...
spoon_of_grimbo 09.14.07	6. A bonus DVD, you say? Well, since 9 times out of 10, the bonus DVDs suck, why not save the small amounts of live footage, backstage dicking about, promo vids, and studio footage for when the band in question is ready to release a full-length DVD? That way more full-length band DVDs will have a decent amount of worthwhile extras rather than just a live set. 7. If you're re-releasing a considerably-sized back catalog, the chances are you're famous enough to do so, so they'll mostly still be available, or nobody was interested the first time around, so don't bother. 8. But if you really MUST re-release a whole back-catalog, at least double up the albums in low-price double disc sets, or get two short albums/E.P.s on one disc. 9. "I know, since the record's really rare, we'll take a song or two off the re-release to make the original more of a collector's item." ...Or how about NO, CUNTS!?!?! Collectors who are THAT anally retentive are all bastards anyway, and if you want to make a re-release worth anyone's time and money, you really don't wanna be TAKING STUFF OFF IT!!! 10. Regardless of the reason for the re-release, it'd be a sound idea to implement a scheme where people who gave enough of a shit to buy it first time around can trade their original copy in for a new copy, or at the very least, a part-exchange discount.
Cesar 09.15.07	Did you had a bad experience with a re-realease or something?
Yazz_Flute 09.15.07	haha cool list on a completely different note your profile picture scared the crap out of me for some reason when I first opened the page.
CeeBone 09.15.07	#10's actually a pretty decent idea.. but (i'm not entiiiiiirely sure how much a band makes from their album sales.. i thoguht the majority of their $ was from touring), wouldn't that give them less dollars
the_patient 09.15.07	number 10 is a good idea but it would never work. and this list needs another point: recording companies taking advantage of one of their artist's death. theres far too many examples of that happening.
MrKite 09.15.07	CeeBone, if they had enough money to re-release something chances are they have money. Plus everyone knows the real bands don't care about money, duh.
Willie 09.15.07	Roadrunner Records are the fucking worst at that re-release shit. They'll re-release an album before a newer one has even been made, and it might have one or two extra tracks at the most... and I'm talking literally months after the original was released! Screw those guys!
spoon_of_grimbo 09.15.07	yeah, its mainly roadrunner that's prompted me to do this. all four KsE albums have been re-released, when only the first one is even SLIGHTLY rare. surely the bonus tracks from all four could have been put on ONE rarities release instead? the same goes for stonesour's two albums, and countless other RR releases. i have no problems with record labels making money, but throught legitimate means, i.e. not ripping ppl off. oh, and bodominflames, that pic is half of my face from a halloween photo, mirrored (notice it's symmetrical) and fucked about with on a cheap photo editor demo. here's the original pic, not half as scary: http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/6536/halloween13ll2.jpg funny you should mention it now, since i fell off my bike (pushbike, oh yeah i'm hardcore) the other day and did a similar thing to my face with real blood, not nice...
spoon_of_grimbo 09.15.07	and btw the_patient, i know that exchange thing's been done before at least once, apparently the band Nevermore hated the original mix of the "enemies of reality" album, but didn't have time before the release to rectify it. so a few months later they allowed fans to exchange their copy for a copy of a remixed and remastered version they had made. i think this was on wikipedia...
Willie 09.15.07	I remember that thing with Nevermore's album "Enemies of Reality" cause I'm one of the people that took advantage of it.
Fort23 09.15.07	nice list