Kevin Sutton ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  I used to regret the major's demise, but hey, Testament is giving us
>what is truly the worthwhile stuff of the old Angel catalogue.  There is
>no reason that they or someone like them can give us the worthy stuff from
>other biggies.  Let em get on with dying.  It was is decrease the surplus
>population.

But Testament only works because someone at EMI realised that a) there
wasn't a big enough market for them to reissue themselves and make money
but b) a smaller company could do it.

I'm sure that a more dog-in-the-manger attitude applies at other majors.

I'll be convinced otherwise when one of them licenses classics from the
past to a small independent.  Sony?

Deryk Barker
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