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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