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Title:	Welcome to the CD Notes Conference
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Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1517
Total number of notes:	13349

1156.0. "Blue Note "Cut-Outs" Beat LP Prices!" by BETHE::LICEA_KANE () Sun Apr 17 1988 15:31

    A first.          
    
    I finally bought a CD for $1.00 less than the price of the equivalent
    LP.
    
    Donald Byrd "At the Half Note Cafe, Volume 1" for $7.99 at Tower
    Records.  It's a "cut-out", where the spine of the CD has been
    cut through.  I can't find a cut-out LP of the same album, so
    I think the comparison is quite fair.  The LP is priced at $8.99.
    
    Besides being cheaper, it's also longer, with two long songs
    on the CD ("Child's Play" and "Chant") replacing one very short
    filler ("Theme") on the LP.  A longer version of "Theme" appears
    on Volume 2 of both the LP and the CD, so no loss there.  (Volume
    2 wasn't available as a cut-out, though.  I'll wait.)
    
    I'll leave it to the tube heads to say that the LP is of course
    much better.

    By the way, there are a number of Blue Note cut-outs at Tower,
    and $7.99 is a good price for great music.  Two other Blue Note
    Cut-outs I picked up:
    	Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "A Night in Tunisia"
    	Freddie Hubbard, "Hub-tones"

    The more great music is sent to places that don't buy great music, the
    more great music will appear in places that do buy great music.
    Except we'll be able to buy great music a great prices.
    
    								-mr. bill

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1156.1	A Second Vote For Blue Note Cutouts	AQUA::ROST	That's right, Sam	`Mon Apr 18 1988 09:17`	20
	I second the recommendation. A lot of the Blue Note stuff is really classic jazz and has been unavailable for years. As usual, the reissues haven't sold super well, so they're already getting cut out. The majority of them have extra (non-LP) tracks. I picked up the Chick Corea "Song of Singing" with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul and it has an extra 30 minutes. I've seen a Jimmy Smith called "The Sermon" with 5 (!!!) extra cuts. Most clock in at over 60 minutes. A real plus is that until the seventies, Blue Note didn't use multitracking. Their records were all done live to two-track tape, with the results that the CD remasters are realy clean, very low hiss. At least in MA, these cutouts are real easy to find. Strawberries and Tower have bins full of 'em and even City Hall Music in Marlboro has a bunch (though they want $8.99).
1156.2	Drilling holes thru CDs	VICKI::LEBLANC		`Tue Apr 19 1988 14:14`	4
	I guess it was bound to happen! 'cut out' CDs... I love it! Considering the alleged 'high cost' of CD manufacture, the record companies must be boiling over 'cut outs'.
1156.3	Look for Antilles/New Directions cut-outs	DSSDEV::HALLGRIMSSON	Eir�kur, CDA Product Manager	`Wed Apr 20 1988 14:35`	6
	Another label with some really good stuff on cut-out currently is Antilles/New Directions. In particular their DDD jazz and modern classical discs are a great deal at cut-out prices. Eirikur
1156.4	Good Vibrations has Them Too	ESKIMO::TBROWNELL		`Fri Apr 22 1988 06:56`	7
	Good Vibrations in the Greendale Mall (Worcester) had a decent selection as of last week, all 7.99. I picked up one by Eric Dolphy and another by Wayne Shorter. I was satisfied. Tb
1156.5	The Cutouts Will Be Vanishing	AQUA::ROST	Now Sally is a happy girl	`Thu Aug 18 1988 13:15`	10
	The Blue Note cutouts will soon be vanishing. Blue Note has restored the titles to the catalog and will be dropping list prices on all reissue CDs and LPs. LPs will no longer be pressed on premium vinyl. Roundup records who have been selling cutouts by mail for $8 are going to raise prices to $10 after Sept. 30th. the pre cutout price from them was $13.
1156.6	going fast!	ULTRA::LARU	put down that ducky	`Fri Aug 26 1988 10:08`	3
	lechmere si selling blue note cutouts for 6.99. selection is limited. bruce