digest? & collectables

[Douglas Pearson]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:20:40 EST, Chuck Rosenberg <Chuckrecs at AOL.COM> wrote:
>
>In a message dated 3/12/01 2:11:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>ceres at SIRIUS.COM writes:
>
>>  I know for a fact that US vinyl
>>  pressings of 'Hawklords/25 Years On' still run about US$5.
>
>Yeah, I'm surprised at how many times I've come across this one. Seems like
>one of the more common Hawk-vinyls in the States. And several have been
>white-label promos at that!

You've actually found one that's NOT a promo?  Obviously, Phonogram (the US
distributors for Charisma at the time) put some real degree of effort into
promoting the thing (given the tons of promo copies, plus the fact that
there were both "Psi Power" 7"s & 12"s in the US ... anyone got a copy of
the former with the edit-of-the-edit for me?), but were unable to sell any
(it was a bad time, remember that in '78 the record industry was starting
to go through a major slump that lasted until 'Thriller' in 82 or 83).
Kind of a sad story, but a good demonstration of the fact that anyone
releasing Hawkwind albums in the USA *isn't* doing it for the money.

> (I think I might still have an extra, if anyone's interested).

Me, too ...

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com