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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: re: CD-only releases
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:01:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 09:01:04 1984
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> From: rocksvax!dave

> The Police "Synchronicity" CD has "Murder By Numbers" on it whereas
> the vinyl version leaves this off.  Seeing this was one of my favorite
> Police songs I was a little disappointed to find out that all albums
> with the same name are not the same.

This is not particularly new, though it's not exactly common, either. I bought
a 10" disk by Rickie Lee Jones called GIRL AT HER VOLCANO, and then ended up
buying the cassette for it because the tape had a "bonus song not available on
LP" (I don't off-hand recall which song it was). Because this happens so rarely,
I don't get as irritated about this as I do the increasingly common habit of
record companies to use songs "not available on LP" as flip sides of hit
singles. Of course, no one's *forcing* you to buy the singles just for those
songs, but if you really like the artist/group, you're stuck between a rock and
a hard place.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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