Saturday, 6 October 2007

FLOGGING A DEAD BAND

I thought that THE VIAGRA PISTOLS ticket prices at BRIXTON were taking things too far at £42.50p plus booking, but now i hear that the 'better than 'N.M.T.B.' LP 'SPUNK' has been re-released again in nothing less than a fucking box set with all the songs put onto singles.
For fucks sake, how many times does someone need to own the same songs, despite the different packaging? its a waste of money and is exploiting humanities need to collect things. Why don't the 'fans' collect the money instead of spending it on yet another pretty punk packaged re-re release of what you already have.
The only other person i know to ruthlessly exploit his back cataloque so much is MICHAEL 'WHACKO-BUBBLES-JACKO' JACKSON!
I don't know who is worse, those who slavishly buy anything by the PISTOLS just because it has the bands name on it or the cunning people who put the stuff out.
But on the bright side, it does have a booklet with it with some rare and unseen photos and is written by punk bore JOHN SAVAGE (so I'm told by an enterprising young man who wanted just the booklet and wasn't bothered with the box set because he had the LP, (but i wouldn't condone that, oh no.).
After all with the box set you would either put it away to collect dust because you have the LP and cant be bothered with putting the singles on (why should you?) or it would be hidden in a collectors padlocked shut 'PISTOLS' cupboard along with all the other SEX PISTOLS memorabilia never to be seen again.
The box set is a waste of money and is just a cynical attempt to ring more cash out of PISTOLS fans, and isn't it's release timely in that it is about around the same time that the band has announced live dates? (tickets £42.50p each, just in case you forgot)
Cynical shit for fans who deserve better, how many fans of other bands had to take beatings and stabbings just for liking a band or playing their records? LYDON & CO you owe their fans better, after all they have paid with their own money to put food on the bands plate's for 30 years now.they're owed at least a bit of respect, not just another cynical rip off.
"EVER GET THE FEELING YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED?" -"yes, by the pistols all the time!".

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