HW: Cosmic Overdrive: Oh Dear delete if offended.. swear words afoot....

[Andrew Garibaldi]

Rats - I wish I had time Mike to say why it's one of the ideas you've come
up with that is, at best, unfair on the shops, and at worst,could quite
easily land you a fine for defacing product instore.
It is no disrespect to you to say that, sadly, most shop managers will be
more intent on ejecting you from the store as soon as possible than having
an eloquent discussion on the merits of dubious Hawkwind titles, and
probably the truth of the matter is that they really will think "nuts" to
stocking the band's work if this is the sort of thing that ensues. Yer
heart's in the right place but the shops are not the culprit. Try the BPI
and see - that should get a lot more response and may even get results.
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Cosmic Overdrive: Oh Dear delete if offended.. swear words
afoot....


> Iain Ferguson writes:
>
> > Sorry for the following, I've just blown up....
> >
> >
> > cant we screw Dave (asshole)Anderson over.
>
> I'm game.
>
> > He really pisses me off
>
> Moi aussi.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? The first thing that comes to my mind
> is that we produce and distribute amongst ourselves some stickers. These
> should be arranged to state the truth (meaning we have to find it out).
> Let's say that they say "Not official Hawkwind release. Avid fans say
> these are not the best quality sound and advise a different purchase"
>
> We all spend time looking at CD's in record shops. We arm ourselves by
> printing these stickers (every stationers has cheap A4 sheets with up to
60
> stickers on them - I use them for sending postcards) and applying them
> as necessary. The record shops will soon enough notice and may take it
> further. At the very least they'll avoid reordering just to avoid the
> hassle of peeling off the stickers. It may not take this happening in
> many shops in a chain for the word to percolate to where it needs to.
>
> The only real risk is whether they'd avoid the hassle by not ordering in
> any Hawkwind stuff at all. Would this be obvious by the stickers
> targetting only particular albums?
>
> If someone gets caught doing this then it might in the long run be even
> better. Demand a chance to see someone and question why they're stocking
> poor quality non-official material.
>
> Over to the floor...
>
> FoFP