NewsOut This Week / on 18 March 2016
Elvis Presley / The Albums Collection (60CD)
Massive box collects Elvis Presley‘s 57 RCA album’s and adds three discs of rarities. Also comes with a big hardcover book. 
a-ha / Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha
The band’s spring tour kicked off last week in Russia and this week sees this new a-ha compilation paired with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased remixes.
Haircut One Hundred / Pelican West (2CD deluxe)
Haircut One Hundred‘s debut is reissued by Cherry Red with a bonus disc packed full of various 12-inch remixes.
Alex Harvey / The Last of the Teenage Idols (14CD box)
Enormous celebration of the work of enigmatic Glasgow blues-rocker Alex Harvey with this 217-track, 14-disc career-spanning collection of his work.
Pet Shop Boys / The Pop Kids
First single from the Pet Shop Boys forthcoming album, SUPER. The CD single features three versions of the track plus two new songs.
Various Artists / Fly: Songs inspired by the Film Eddie the Eagle
Gary Barlow is ringmaster for this circus of 1980’s pop stars. Holly Johnson, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw and Paul Young are amongst the artists providing new material for this better-than-expected soundtrack.
Primal Scream / Chaosmosis
The Scottish rockers’ eleventh studio album is released this week, and is now widely available following a PledgeMusic campaign last December.
Iggy Pop / Post Pop Depression
Post Pop Depression is Iggy Pop‘s 17th studio album and out at the end of this week on CD and this limited edition vinyl package.
- • UK Order: Post Pop Depression (limited vinyl LP)
- • USA Order: Post Pop Depression (limited vinyl LP)
- • GERMANY Order: Post Pop Depression (limited vinyl LP)
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Amazon asking £6.83 for that PSB single is an utter disgrace and i also noticed that New Order single Singularity on there as well priced at £8.04. There is no way a CD single should be priced above £4.99.
It’s not Amazon doing it as such – They’re working from a dealer price set by record companies. HMV store price was also £6.99 as was an indie shop I ended up getting it from. Blame the makers and in this case, Neil and Chris as they’re in charge of stuff like this now. If Amazon had flogged it for a fiver they’d probably be making no profit at all.
The Amazon price is the cheapest, by a few pence, for this.
If that’s the case that they are working from the dealers price then how come those forthcoming Associates reissues are £12 on their Pledgemusic page yet on Amazon the pricing is all over the place especially The Affectionate Punch which they are asking £18.38 which is a total joke. Amazon set their own prices.
Labels/artists have higher margins when they sell direct to fan (eg Pledge) so prices can be cheaper. Amazon can indeed charge whatever they want, although they always have pay pay the dealer price for the product in question.
There is no dealer price for Pledge music. They take 15% of income.
We are really into the dull portion of the year when not much is coming out and SDE has to start announcing CD singles….
SDE has a history of announcing PSB CD singles…
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/?s=pet+shop+boys
The boys confirming more album reissues for later this year (Autumn) on Graham Norton’s show today – @ 2 hours 50 mins in is when he asks them. No specific mention of Please though….
It will be interesting to see the UK chart positions of some of these: A-ha’s Objects In The Mirror (Steve Osborne version) & The Pets Pop Kids are both Radio 2 ‘A’ playlisted, and Fly Like An Eagle is their album of the week. Hopefully it will give a good ‘shove’ to the sales figures. These days there can’t be many better promotional freebies a band can hope to get than that.
Indeed. Will be very interesting…
Looking forward to the Iggy album. The tracks I’ve heard so far have been superb!
Pet Shop Boys and A-ha ordered – really looking forward to the PSB b-sides!
awaiting aha and haircut 100
Hi All
I can’t wait for A-ha and the Fly soundtrack CDs to arrive in the post!
Cheers!