David GerardDead Can Dance have released their complete catalogue on Bandcamp
Allen Brunson@davidgerard wow. i can remember a time when i had to pay nearly a hundred bucks on an auction site to get a copy of "the serpent's egg." not sorry though. if i'd waited until now, i would have lost about 20 years' worth of listening
Ian MalcolmEek! I had no idea it had become rare or hard to acquire - my CD copy was picked up from a used record shop in the mid '90s for about $8. 😬
@imalcolm @davidgerard 4ad’s distribution was poor and spotty over the years. they would let stuff go out of print, it would be more or less unavailable for like ten years or so, then they would refill the pipeline with a remastered version or something, ad infinitum.
Ah interesting. I got most of the 4AD catalogue I was into back then (DCD, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Bauhaus) from smaller indie record stores here in Melbourne, where stock seemed to go in and out of availability according to the movement of the planets or something anyway. 😉
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4AD distribution into Ireland was through whoever Beggars Banquet were using at the time.
The bigger 4AD acts were easy to find, the smaller ones not so much.
I got the Presages sampler LP (new, a few years after release) in the bargain bin of a small independent Dublin record shop that mostly sold Metal. The shop staff didn't know who any of the bands on it were; I only recognised one of them (but bought it anyway, as I was really getting into CT and DCD).
4AD distribution into Ireland was through whoever Beggars Banquet were using at the time.
The bigger 4AD acts were easy to find, the smaller ones not so much.
I got the Presages sampler LP (new, a few years after release) in the bargain bin of a small independent Dublin record shop that mostly sold Metal. The shop staff didn't know who any of the bands on it were; I only recognised one of them (but bought it anyway, as I was really getting into CT and DCD).
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
The earliest Cocteau Twins CD reissues pushed each disc's running time by adding relevant Peel Session and EP tracks to each album. The idea was to justify the higher costs of the shiny new Digital Audio Disc format (as compared to dusty old vinyl).
Now, the CD and the download are almost the same price, and the vinyl costs 2x as much.
The earliest Cocteau Twins CD reissues pushed each disc's running time by adding relevant Peel Session and EP tracks to each album. The idea was to justify the higher costs of the shiny new Digital Audio Disc format (as compared to dusty old vinyl).
Now, the CD and the download are almost the same price, and the vinyl costs 2x as much.
@dec23k @imalcolm @davidgerard i can think of one time they did that:
https://www.discogs.com/release/28515-Cocteau-Twins-Garlands
... but they also released "garlands" on cd without the bonus tracks. i am pretty sure that was the only time? i have all the cocteau twins records on the original 4AD CDs, and as far as i know, the track lists are the same as the original vinyl releases.
(i didn't get into the cocteau twins until well after CDs were common, so i never bought any of that group on vinyl.)
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
I bought most of their albums on vinyl first, as and when I could afford them, except Garlands. It had a simultaneous LP and cassette release, and the cassette had the Peel Sessions as 4 bonus tracks, so I bought that at the time instead.
I can remember seeing at least 3 of the 1980s albums on CD in a shop in the late 1980s (on a high shelf behind the counter, not racked where I could get my paws on them), with EPs from the same year as bonus tracks.
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
I bought that issue of the Garlands CD, just for the additional 2 bonus tracks (and I still don't have it on vinyl). When that went out of stock, subsequent CD remasters didn't have any bonus tracks.
I didn't bother buying any of those other Cocteau Twins 1980s CD issues, because I already had the LPs and EPs on vinyl.
I'll have to dig into Discogs when I have more time, but a quick skim shows that not all of the CTwins 1980s CD releases are listed.