HW: Voiceprint CD

[Colin Allen]

True enough but the blurb on the back of the "new" cd makes it sound like
Manna from Heaven!

COLIN
----- Original Message -----
From: "ANDREW GARIBALDI" <andygee at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Voiceprint CD


> far be it from me to defend Voiceprint on this matter, and I'm not really,
> but I figure that seeing as how they sold so few of the mis-pressed one,
> they are figuring that so few people will have it already that the
majority
> will be happy to see it.
> However, I am of the opinion that some 'dodgy mis-pressing, altho'
> technically 'collectors item' status (to a degree) is hardly a bona-fide
> freebie from what appears to be the main label for all things Hawkwind,
> these days, especially, when, as you say, they must surely have had
> something else on the table before this arrived, altho knowing them, that
> may not actually be the case - I could imagine them 'waiting to see what
> dropped out of the skies', but count your blessings it wasn't some even
> dodgier compilation, perhaps.
> Andy Garibaldi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Allen" <colin at CALLEN18.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:21 AM
> Subject: HW: Voiceprint CD
>
>
> > Well, my free CD arrived from Voiceprint this morning and, guess what,
it
> > IS the mis-pressed Spacebrock which I already have!  As this mispressing
> > happened after the anouncement of the "free CD", one wonders what the
> > original freebie was meant to be.
> >
> > Does this strike anyone else as a cynical move to shift some dodgy CDs?
I
> > do hope that no-one from the band was involved in this decision as it is
> > really cheap IMHO!
> >
> > COLIN (A fan for 25 years, whcih don't seem to matter any more!)
>