They are bastards...
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Kevin, You are right, these media companies are bastards. I love how they put out a greatest hits package and slap on two new songs because they know the fans have all of the artist's cds and they have to find a way to get them to buy the "new" cd.Then just the other day I found out that DVD makers are simply slapping black bands on DVDs and calling them Widescreen release. They actually cut the top and bottom off of the "formatted for your screen version." I'm not kidding. I just bought the new "To Live And Die In LA" dvd and read this, so I popped in the vcr tape and DVD in and compared them. And the bastards did just that - on the DVD the viewing screen is actually narrower. What crap.And then how about releasing a movie, then a few months later they release it again as a "Limited Special Edition." What crap.Although some places are doing well. Take Rob Zombie's Greatest Hits package - for ten bucks you get the cd with about 20 songs and a dvd with all of his videos. That was a deal. And then Neil Young's Greendale did the same thing for about fifteen.
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Kevin, You are right, these media companies are bastards. I love how they put out a greatest hits package and slap on two new songs because they know the fans have all of the artist's cds and they have to find a way to get them to buy the "new" cd.Then just the other day I found out that DVD makers are simply slapping black bands on DVDs and calling them Widescreen release. They actually cut the top and bottom off of the "formatted for your screen version." I'm not kidding. I just bought the new "To Live And Die In LA" dvd and read this, so I popped in the vcr tape and DVD in and compared them. And the bastards did just that - on the DVD the viewing screen is actually narrower. What crap.And then how about releasing a movie, then a few months later they release it again as a "Limited Special Edition." What crap.Although some places are doing well. Take Rob Zombie's Greatest Hits package - for ten bucks you get the cd with about 20 songs and a dvd with all of his videos. That was a deal. And then Neil Young's Greendale did the same thing for about fifteen.
