Quote from: Leewar on January 04, 2023, 02:18:31 PM
Ive always wondered if there will come a time when the GO hype/marketing bubble goes pop.
Band has done what they do, pretty much always. Starting with 291 copies for Leichenlienie LP, 350 copies for Save Our Slaves 12"+7". 490 for Mind Control LP and so on... It is hard to call style of releases "hype" (= extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion), if all they do is put it available in their own store and inform people something is available. It may be bubble in a way, that they clearly like to keep smaller stuff only sold via Tesco, not like real albums that have wider distribution. Of course one can have debate should band answer the demand by increasing pressing, or follow their idea what contributes to idea of item.
As these smaller edition works are not -real albums- so to say, mostly live material, they are not made available in same way as albums. I would guess it is in fine line with traditions of industrial culture. TG had its live tape box, Whitehouse had the massive live action tape "series" available, ton of Psychic TV live tapes were there, and they were something separate. Not the album that are meant to be "in stock", but something for the followers who want to hear something between the albums. I assume it can be annoying if artist has urge to published something, but not flood the market, so to say. Just keep certain hierarchy in publications. It took long long time for GO even start to do CD repressing of albums, while old attitude seemed to be that band was always moving forward. Not looking back. Also tradition in industrial, where reissues and large availability is kind of new school entitlement. Old school was that release happened, sold out, and artist moved on to do next.
For guys who keep missing all reissues, there is curious situation, to test how not having GO logo gives you little extra time: SK1005 "Mannheim / Gothenburg 1992" LP, that was the very first Tesco Archaic Documents, it came of 2013, almost 10 years ago. Just couple of weeks ago I sold my last copy of it. Discogs has 5 for sale, starting from 19 euro. If someone missed latest announcement, there may be now opportunity to grab something that many people clearly overlooked. It has lots of early GO classic tracks and neat 1992 live recording sound. Or let's see TODOS SOMOS AUTODEFENSAS – PICTURE 7″. It is said that it is self financed, and not genocide organ, but then again, if you look at the matrix, run out groove text.... " TESCO+++ GO - MIRELES / A" hmm... Decent bleak track on one side, sounds very familiar in all ways. B-side with speech.