Seriously though, after turning the sleeves round & therefore covering up the barcodes with price stickers we sold only 20 less Belle & Sebastian EPs on monday than Spice Girls singles. We didn't sell a single 12inch though. Am I alone in wondering why you can't put four songs on a 7inch? Or at least make the 12inch the same price as the CD single (ours are a pound dearer <- sorry Leslie)
well of course you CAN quite clearly fit four songs (and even five) on a 7", but you're probably gonna have to make it spin at 33, and it'll sound cack most likely, and hey! POP is about two song 7"s anyway, is it not? In plastic bags, hand sleeved by elves. um, is there still a rule that you're not allowed more than five tracks on a 12" single? any more and it's a (mini)LP... well that was the excuse we used to hear back in the subway days. nice news about the spicey grrls though. only 20 copies more, eh? so Belle and Seb will be number 3 then? with a bullet. assuming here of course that Dame Elton will be number one until hell freezes over... and probably that won't even shift it. tra la la, the duke, who has just listened to Sha-La-La 1 (don't laugh that man Hopkins, it was for a tape) and found it... lacking. ALthough i'm making a bet that the character with the floppy bowl cut in the sleeve story is in fact a Cloud. Man, they had bowl cuts to die (laughing) for. Oh yeah, and a sneaking suspicion that the bod copying the postcard cat was in fact ME! well it could have been you know.. we did do such things in those days. We even made lovely wooden badges of the cat. That and the 'you can't hide your love' dolphin, although those were in tin. burbles on into his tea for hours on end... -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------