Wierd tapes - who wants 'em.

[Feel the panic !!!!!!]

Alright there,
I'll be interested in your idea.

colm

"My ass may be dumb but I ain't no dumbass"


-----Original Message-----
From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 09 April 1999 11:58
Subject: Re: Wierd tapes - who wants 'em.


>Keith Henderson writes:
>
>> Colm naively asks...
>>
>> >Anyone out there willing to burn a copy of these weird tapes onto CD-R
and
>> >maybe pass them on to unfortunate fans who where too young to know about
>> >them when they came out?
>>
>> Haven't you been paying any attention??  :)
>>
>> Mike?
>
>I'm still on the case.
>
>> P.S.  BTW, since I've never owned any official copies of the Weird Tapes
(as
>> it always seemed to be a pain in the ass to order overseas off-line), I
>> guess I'm not eligible to receive CD-R's, eh?  But is there a possibility
of
>> putting in a 'duel' order for the tapes *and* CD-Rs at once?  Is there
any
>> contact with the folks at Wolden (is it?) about this idea of
>> digitally-archiving them?  Could I pay a middleman to make Wolden happy?
>
>I guess I could organise that for the overseas folks though obviously
>it'd be more expensive to get 'em sent to me and then sent out again
>with the CD's. OTOH it'd be easier for Wolden to copy 'em as a batch
>than singly.
>
>I could probably do this and try to arrange a bulk deal with Wolden if
>there are enough people wanting 'em to justify the effort. The deal with
>Wolden used to be 5 Pounds per tape (times 8 tapes) but with numbers
>maybe the unit cost could be negotiated down.
>
>For the sake of research, who'd be interested?
>
>> (Here we are again, eh Mike?  If I had any faith in the postal service (a
>> little better today), I'd be more positive.) :)
>
>Ain't that the truth.
>
>FoFP
>