---------- superbob said: ... because i know the best idea for promoting the next album. listen up: the first thousand copies come with a cd of tigermilk.....and only 1000 copies. no more. ever. that way we can get our hands on it, and it would still remain a rare collectable sort of thing. i think i deserve a nobel prize. And I say that I am beginning to be really irritated with the whole Tigermilk situation. Why would anyone *want* to have the thing staying unavailable? I guess superbob's point is that he's irritated that he doesn't have a copy but would be quite happy to get one and then pull the ladder up beneath him. (I might have misunderstood here). The fine efforts of Andy D (who did me my swiftly degrading tape) and such fellows is great but not enough. These songs are just so good that they deserve to go out to the people, and I know lots of B&S fans who would never dream of getting onto a list like this. How the hell are they going to hear it? Or , despite all the happiness about the chart placing, would we all be happier *really* if B&S stayed our own little secret? Is the status of Tigermilk what keeps them ours, somehow? The band say that there are too amny other things to do at the moment, but what's to stop them just letting the thing out and letting it sell itself. It undoubtedly would (IYFS seemed to tick over very happily without a great deal of ongoing promotion, by word of mouth(?)), and the money generated could be used for other things. I just don't understand it. The main point being that this is pop music and while I understand that each of us has our own obscure and unobtainable corners of pop history, it seems perverse and snobbish to artificially create this one, and it would be selfish of us to support it. 'Collectable' has nothing to do with 'pop'. The last copy of Tigermilk I saw on sale went for eighty pounds. That means that to hear the songs you either have to know someone with the LP (i.e. be in the in-crowd) or have the sort of money floating about where you can afford to splash ?80 on an LP. So... the privileged or the rich. Le Tigermilk of the bourgeoisie? Moan over. Tim H ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------