How the record companies cheat us, part 27.

Tommy BOO

Some time ago I bought a new addition to my T.Rex / Marc Bolan collection, "The Very Best of T.Rex". I quite like T.Rex actually, Marc Bolan was a fucking genius, and I have some of their albums too. But I'm terrible at remembering song names, so I just bought this best of album, believing that it really has the best songs of T.Rex on it.
The funny thing is that I already had "The Best of T.Rex" and the tracklisting is completely different. The main reason why I bought the new one was that I didn't recognise all of the songs on it.
OK, I got back home, put on the T.Rex CD and started to boogie. Rolling Eyes

Then I started reading the booklet and saw this little advertisement there:

Also available: The Very Best of T.Rex VOL.2

VOL 2?! What the fuck?

Here's the album cover of the first one.

Does it say somewhere that it's just Volume One? Does it fuck?
No of course it doesn't, so that silly people like me would have to buy two best of albums instead of one. Bugger.
Well, fortunately T.Rex were good enough so I think I'm going to get the Vol 2 as well, but it's still bloody annoying that the record companies cheat us like that. It's not much, but I know they've done it on purpose.

I wonder what "The Greatest Hits of T.Rex" is like!! Rolling Eyes

This isn't the first time either. Some years ago I bought "The Best of Bob Dylan", again hoping that it would have all his best songs on it. Later I found that there are at least Volumes 2 and 3 as well...

Idea

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paulwhite · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 396 Location: south england

what's the lesson leant?

dont buy best ofs.

whitex

Tommy BOO · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 22:01 Post subject:

paulwhite · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 396 Location: south england

the thing is they might not have known whether or not they were going to release a 2nd best of. It was probably a 'see how the first one does, and then release another one if it does well' sort of thing.

whitex

Tommy BOO · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 22:24 Post subject:

I'm not sure if that's the truth either, Paul.
The Volume One seems to have all the best T.Rex songs from 1972 to 1975 (and a couple of songs from 1976) - The Volume Two has the best tunes of the last years of T.Rex, from 1975 to Marc Bolan's death in 1977.
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

Tommy BOO · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 01:05 Post subject:

Here's another one.

Special editions and Limited Collector's Editions.

Especially those that get released only a very short time after the first release of the actual album. Do you know what I mean?
For example, I bought this Hanoi Rocks album a long time ago, and not very long after that it was released in the UK and the UK edition had 4 bonus tracks. Now that's annoying.
I could give many other examples as well.
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 00:10 Post subject:

Well you can buy both volume 1 & 2 and you still wont have my favourite T-Rex song i.e. 'Ride a White Swan'.

Tommy BOO · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 01:26 Post subject:

John Mc · Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398

People seem to like greatest hits collections, there's 14 of them in the UK Top 40 Album chart this week. The top 20 contains albums by The Shadows, Phil Collins and Dire Straits - it like living in the 1980's all over again but without Liverpool FC being good.

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