sorry, i must've misunderstood yer previous post... that's a good indea, but wouldn't that be very expensive for the person demanding AND for the middle man (the record store you're ordering from)? - k Chris Selvig <selvig@earthlink.net> wrote: I'm not proposing labels do some sorta crappy mixtape type of CDR; they already have the artwork and the masters, y'know, so they could do print-on-demand copies of CDs that'd be the same as if they pressed up a bunch of regular CDs. At 02:52 AM 9/20/2003 -0700, kev booyaka wrote: to me, the cover art is very important. so printing of CDR's from labels don't come as especially good news to me...i'd rather use SoulSeek anyday. i hope Ipecac will re-release the whole Cows catalogue some day... - k Chris Selvig <selvig@earthlink.net> wrote: None of the Cows stuff was put out by majors, but with the exception of the early stuff on the Treehouse label, I'd be surprised if those records don't see a reissue someday. A 180-gram audiophile pressing of "Effete and Impudent Snobs," that's what I need... Erick's broader question is a good one, though - majors could certainly sell o/p stuff as MP3 downloads (yuck). I think there was a thread a year or so back about doing a print-on-demand CDR service, which one of the big book distributors (Ingram?) does with obscure titles. They could even license record stores to do this, thinks the hopeful retailer in me. CEMA (Capitol et al) did a larger-scale version of that in the mid-90s, taking preorders for a CD of Cecil Taylor's "Conquistador" and just pressing enough to fill preorders, rather than press palletloads of CDs to gather dust in their warehouse as they usually do. -Chris At 05:38 PM 9/19/2003 -0700, kev booyaka wrote: Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software Chris Selvig _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software