That wasn't the case in Canada where the initial listing on Amazon.ca was around $70 Can which is about $50 US. After a few months the price started to drop and as soon as it fell below $50 Can I bought a copy. My point is that no record priced at the $50 mark is going to sell a lot no matter how good it is (and this is a very good record). Most single disc reissues these days are pricing at around $25-$35 Can.
I didn't know you were in Canada. I'm not too sure, though, that IR has much control over how their offerings are initially priced by out-of-country vendors they have wholesaled (wholesold?) to.
I know that the first Stealer's Wheel didn't sell well on SACD but I am hopeful that it will eventually sell well enough to convince the label to put in on SACD as well.
Mono mix of ISB's Safe At Home on (SA)CD. Remix of the first two Pure Prairie League albums. In sore need of some bottom end.
Our pricing experience in Canada isn't evidence that Ferguslie Park didn't sell well in the USA based on high pricing in Canada. That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Americans didn't buy it because it was expensive in Canada? The pricing of IR titles is consistent with other premium reissues, like Analogue Productions, Mofi, Impex, Speaker's Corner, Music Matters, Analog Spark, etc that are using the same formula. They seem to sell. When an album doesn't sell it's because the title didn't connect with the audience for the music. Furthermore, given their premium price of $99 USA, would you agree that Mofi selling out all their copies in pre-order of their one-step series is "a lot"? I think the price barrier is much higher in general that it appears it is for you.
I said at the time (see post #560) that prices in Canada were off the scale. I was only commenting on my experience of trying to find an affordable copy of this when it came out. If you're in Canada, buying from sellers in the US is often not an option, given the added costs of shipping, customs duties, brokerage fees etc. I've occasionally bought other premium US-produced reissues from Canadian suppliers but never paid more than $50 Can for a single disc - and frankly wouldn't. But obviously the Canadian market is going to be different from the US market. Still, I do think there would have been a few other Stealers Wheel fans north of the border who would have snapped this up at a better price. Hopefully they will do so now.
This is correct- it was $35 SRP like everything else. And I have no control over what sellers sell for in Canada. This is an old saw at this point.
Now darn it, let me tell you this- that is the best damned record you'll ever get for $18! It's a better album top to bottom than the first, and the Lp and jackets are just amazing!
No control at all. I honestly don't know why something I have no control over is a continual topic on this forum. It's absolutely pointless belly aching.
Oh yeah, without a doubt , ‘Ferguslie Park“ is the finest album they released, so many great songs and it sounds soooo good, original vinyl is great but intervention’s is just sublime.
Heads up- 100% Fun came in and the stickers were wrong and need to be re-done. Street date is bumping from 6/22 to 6/29. Apologies. Pre-orders directly from me might arrive a smidge early ...
I always love the term "street date" for records. Makes me imagine I'm going to walk outside and there'll be kids waving albums, yelling "Gene Clark! Get your Gene Clark right here! Hot off the presses!"
Then we'd complain about how the SACD was thrown too far from the porch, or that it crashed through the front picture window, or that it ended up in the hydrangeas. Gotta keep some creaky old man perspective here.
Is that a compilation? I've shied away from those as the masters are most likely compilation not master sources. Never know though I guess.
