Similarly Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers,” for my money his best album, has been repackaged in editions ranging from a $20 CD to a $250 9-LP set. That said, most, but not all, of these sets come into the world at various price points for vinyl, CD or mixed sets.Ī 3-disc version of Prince’s 1987 masterpiece “Sign ‘O’ The Times goes for about $30. Quinn Bishop, owner and manager of Cactus Music, says, “A lot of these projects get teed up because people realized it’s not just the Beatles that can get people to spend $150-$200 on a set.” An Elvis Costello, “Armed Forces” set whispers to me at $200. Just five sets - with music by Prince, Petty, Wilco, Lou Reed and Grandaddy - set me back $630. This year has been a rich one for music enthusiasts. Those willing to spend get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing. Those who ante up - from $100 to $500 - get newly pressed LPs, previously unreleased demos and alternate takes of known songs, live material, newly written reflections on old music by Prince, Elvis, Tom Petty, Sade, Fleetwood Mac, the Staple Singers, Elvis Costello, Wilco, Lou Reed, Black Sabbath, the list is formidable. Those reissues of albums by Talking Heads or Nina Simone - which retail in the $20-$30 range - are like going down to the pond and catching bluegills or tommycocks.īut in the summer and fall of 2020, the recording industry has upped its efforts to push bigger fish. According to the Recording Industry Association of America vinyl sales hit $232 million to the $130 million earned by CDs. During the first half of 2020 record sales doubled those of CDs for the first time since the 1980s. On the micro level, record labels continue to rush old albums onto vinyl, a response to vinyl sales increasing over 15 consecutive years. To look back, though, has been to topple into a wonderland of old music extracted from storage and put in slick new clothes. But with a touring industry shut down for eight months, the vitality of new music has been stifled to a degree. Certainly there has been ample new music recorded and released this year. “Don’t Look Back” or “Get Back.” Who’s to say if there’s a preferable path?ĭuring this remarkable year, inclinations in our culture have been to transport to the past or think about the future while muddling through a problematic present. 28, two days after the 62nd annual Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy announced Thursday that "Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute to Prince” will tape at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan. and Earth, Wind & Fire are set to perform at a Prince tribute concert this month. John Legend, Foo Fighters, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, H.E.R. 4, 2007 file photo shows Prince performing during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
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