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).