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Originally Posted by DaveMartin
Hey, sorry if you were confused, but I feel that we were pretty clear about what was offered. I also feel that we went pretty far and wide with the news about the Buy Early Get Now promotion. Where do you live? What stores are you referring to? In other territories the BEGN promotion is a much newer concept that might not have run as smoothly.
Also Sonic Youth are not on Matador in Japan. They have a separate deal there that we have nothing to do with.
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I just got in touch with the record store where I've been doing the majority of my (offline) business for more than 20 years: Fred's Records in St. John's, Newfoundland--
the record store in the Atlantic Canadian region of 4 provinces; it's been in business about 40 years. Here's what they had to say about the
Eternal/'Live Battery pre-order deal:
"The method that they wanted us to use to get the LPs to the
customer was convoluted and required us to order more product
than we can realistically sell. That borne in mind, the guy who
does the orders decided not to opt into the buy early, get stuff
program. It's a shame really. That being said,
The Eternal is their
best work to date, IMHO."
Well, there you have it: Sonic Youth have ascended to musical Nirvana, the folks at Matador feed children to Moloch. Someone please write a sycophantic letter of apology to David Geffen, or otherwise let the bootlegging begin.