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23rd Apr 2015, 1:26 PM
	Neil Forbes Rock, Country or R. & B. - Classic Hits for me! Member since Dec 2014 252 Points	biffbampow wrote: A total waste of time and vinyl in my opinion since the original pressings aren't exactly scarce. Lennon solo is rather depressing since it's way too uneven and lumpy. "Plastic Ono Band" is the only keeper for me. The rest can be condensed to one album of highlights. The world does NOT need new vinyl pressings of "Some Time in New York City", "Rock and Roll" and "Milk and Honey" - has it ever occurred to anybody that maybe combining "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" featuring just the John tracks and no Yoko might be a sensible idea? The ping pong game with labels is downright absurd. How the Hell is it that Universal owns MCA and Chess Records but reissue Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry on GEFFEN? I find that senseless and offensive. Come on Universal... when are you gonna celebrate Ringo Starr's induction into the "rock and roll hall of fame" with a vinyl box set containing all EIGHTEEN solo albums he's made? Aah, some of you are coming around to the way I see the recording industry(not entirely, but partially). As I see it, companies like Universal, and Warner too, if it comes to this, need to have their rabid and rampant acquisition of other companies severely curtailed. The ownership "clock" on record labels should be wound back to 1965. EMI would have its Columbia/Parlophone/HMV/Stateside grouping, plus Motown, Capitol, Roulette and other labels, as an example, MCA would have Brunswick/Decca/Coral, and that would be its lot. If not wound back to 1965, then at least 1983, the advent of the CD. Whatever labels held and issued by whichever companies, that's where label ownership would be FROZEN. Companies would only be permitted to launch new in-house labels(budget issue labels perhaps) but would be FORBIDDEN from swallowing up other companies. There's got to be room for all record companies, large and small, to exist together in the marketplace WITHOUT the threat of being swallowed up in one gulp by the larger companies.