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Topic: CD Albums: Time To Bite The Bullet Pt. 1 The Problem

9th Aug 2017, 3:50 PM
	Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2283 Points	Just because "a lot of people have said, the concept of a national release is not relevant in the era of globalisation" does not necessarily mean that removing countries/regions would solve anything at all. If we removed countries we'd need to remove cat#s and bar codes too because most of these would also no longer match. You only need to look at EU and USA releases, mainstream or otherwise, of the same CD to see that the two biggest markets in the world seldom match in cat# and barcode. In fact it is unusual for a CD to match across these jurisdictions. I know there are reasons for this but I'm not going it to that. Furthermore, some regions/countries have some odd quirks in the way cat#s are written even if the number strings match. These include single uninterrupted strings, different spacing and added or deleted hyphens and are often particular to a local market where a CD made and marketed. The idea that globalisation has made local releases obsolete is a nonsense in reality. Most countries still produce many artists whose work is only released locally in a physical form. Conversely, there are of course others that are not popular at home but are in other parts of the world and only release their work in certain markets. Many genre specific and upcoming artists only release locally produced limited runs of their work and unless it is picked up by a major that's how it stays. So, I don't endorse the removing of the country category at all. I do however, agree with the whistler on point "1. Make it 'available in..." but I said that in the very first post on this thread. Just goes to show how dangerous buying into neo-liberal "globalisation" ideology can be I suppose. It's sure causing us some headaches.