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That's also what I've been told. I'm kind of two-fold here ... so much stuff is rotting (or has been lost already) in the vaults of the majors and they don't give a sh*t, literally.But still, when I have a choice and don't need to sell a kidney, I do go for the official release. Anyway, when I see Freshsound and others ripping off small labels like Mode/VSOP or Uptown or Mighty Quinn, that really pisses me off big time, and to me it's ample proof (if any more is needed) that the pretending-to-be-good-saviour-chap(s) there are in it only for the money ... if they were the true fans and stuff, as Pujol pretended in some intereview that was discussed here, too, he'd simly not, ever, rip off any small label. Not sure what my stance regarding Fantasy is ... Concord cares a tiny little bit, but not really ... and loads of stuff are OOP, so I understand those who do that route. I picked up most of the OJCs I wanted while they were around, but others couldn't, so ... But: Agreed. I fully agree in this respect!

Do I get one if I bring my gun, too?

Sheesh, get a rest folks! And please, where's them sources about *all* mono tapes being lost? The facts, ya know

Thanks! Guess I'll just let my pre-order go through, it costs me less than 40€ anyway, so ...but I still wondered! How about the Legacy Edition of "Round About Midnight"? Have that one, too - but again I don't see any info on mono or stereo. I didn't bother to spend big money for the glued up albums box ... spent HUGE money on those metal spine boxes (they cost around 130-200 $ in Switzerland back then ....) and I'm more than okay with them, so I don't have the Albums Collection to compare.

Someone asked above if the metal spine boxes included some of the music in mono, kinda suggesting they did ... Not having refined ears (or a mono button, neither on my amp nor in my head) and not being willing to rip it all to a computer and check visually ... can anyone expand on that? There are no notes whatsoever in all these Sony reissues, about if the music is mono or stereo (so naively I'd always assume it's the later, if it dates from, say, 1956 or later, als the Miles stuff does). Not even "Miles Ahead" is in mono - they actually state the box contains the first ever stereo reconstruction faithful to what was used on the original (mono) album, so ... Anyone knows of detailed information regarding mono or stereo being used on the box sets?

Jim, this goes further off-topic, but of all the kickstarter and indigogo campaigns I took part in so far, there was only one other than yours where you got (actually get, it's not yet finished) such regular updates. And I think yours is the only one offering some video or other actual preview content, too. You handle that stuff in a great way

They do ship the disc - at least it seems so, with the 15$ option ... but they don't specify additional shipping costs (which usually are around 8 $ or so). Will give this a moment to mull over, the campaign is running for a month, so ... Might it be for legal reasons that they don't offer the CD + DL (of all the music) internationally?

the "rewards" are kinda for locals, too ... why not offer the longer DL version + CD internationally? beats me ... but this does look interesting!

And Mosaics aren't meant to be cheap ... although with the US$ getting weaker and weaker in the past 15 years, they're at a point where to me, they do seem cheap. When I started buying, they cost me 150% of today's rates, there were times when they were up to 170% ... and yet they never seemed "expensive", really.

Now $45 Not sure how that works for you (with VAT and shipping), but 42 € at amazon.de might be a rather good offer? 42 Eur is more expensive than $45. Yeah, I know, that's why I was asking about VAT and shipping - to me, it would end up cheaper for sure, but I woulnd't know about delivery to Israel.

Ya know, they had wigs with integrated metronomes back then ... and George Washington had false teeth of wood (and his mouth emitted a rotten foulish stench) ... but then wood was good in a way, since it did help Ludwig van catch some sounds, putting a piece of it into his mouth, the other end on the piano (guess if he had wooden teeth, too, it would have been to no avail, but how wood, ahm, I know?)

Pre-ordered one, too ... not sure I really need all of it, even more so as I have what I guess are the most essential ones (Sextant, Headhunters, Thrust) and a couple of others, too ... but hey, it's closing time!

Sure hope the bidder had his commas right! And Blue Train, you seem like a fetishist, too, always having to chime in with your facts not fiction creed ... it does get tiring. Your facts are very often one man's opinion (namely yours). It's not worth boiling it up all the time, makes the impression your a facts-not-fiction-fetishist with no life (and little grip on how facts and fiction are related or how facts are "made"). Sorry, don't want to get personal, but your on-going lamento is really asking for it.

long live Mose indeed!

Now $45 Not sure how that works for you (with VAT and shipping), but 42 € at amazon.de might be a rather good offer?

Like Carla and Steve playing "Rut"? The board does not forget

Well, I know - besides, that's a good LP!

The thing is, if you've buying other stuff, have rough plans of what you want to get when, it's just impossible to do Japanese at the same time, too ... either you save your money and then run to buy the next fifty, or by the time you'll have the first dozen, there will be 200 new ones out, and a year later, they're all gone again ... so there's that. I did get a couple of Toshiba's EMI reissues though and enjoy them (not speaking of audio crap, just got them because they were not around elsewhere), but usually it's a bit of a hassle even with items I really want. That may just be my feelings about it, but well yeah, there's that. And sorry Hans, of course I was joking!

Well no, that's on the LP

Yup, their disc with Neneh Cherry seems to be huge in some circles ... (it wore rather thin to my ears, after five or six spins though).

... and available for a mind-boggling seventeen days

106 € on amazon.de and a cool cover, too:

God sent Indie Rock as a punishment (no idea what for, don't blame me!) and now we also have to suffer through Indie Jazz? Please, no! Another style alltogether, but why not try Tortoise?

Pre-ordered three of them a few days ago and just received mails telling me the estimated delivery date was postponed into early January ...

can't say anything, but there's been a previous thread: