Wanted! 1 Gud Cide - Look What The Streets Made
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YEAH, THERE ARE RELEASES FOR 100, 200 OR WHATEVER AMOUNT OF UNITS YOU WANT. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TRUE. SOME MANUFACTURES WOULD DO IT BACK THEN AND SOME HAD SET MINIMUMS. THE LESS PRESSED, THE HIGHER THE COST PER UNIT. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY. THEY WERE CALLED "TEST PRESSES" BACK THEN. THIS WAY THE RECORD COMPANIES COULD TEST THE MARKET TO SEE IF THEIR ARTIST/ALBUMS WERE WORTH GOING FORWARD WITH FULL MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION.
Yeah, I've always thought that there only were the 2 presses of that CD. I got what supposedly is a limited third pressing of that album. I bought it from an amazon seller with 1000+ rating who sold CDs he got from local CD outlets. Immediately when I got it I thought it was a bootleg because it was a CDR light brown printed disc with a matte one page booklet (I don't think it was a scan) and a back tray card. For years I thought I had been screwed until I discussed this with one guy who ran a reputable internet rap record store. He got the same CD twice and he told me that this was an official re-release. I guess it was made in the beginning of the 2000s. Was this a BS story? It sorta convinced me that the initial seller really did sell me something that wasn't a bootleg but I can't be sure though.
i know about 20.000 releases and never ever heard about stuff like this. even the pressings that were around 300 copies were made on CDr back then because it just didnt make any sense with the technical standard back in the days to make a glassmaster for less than 500 copies.this changed in the last 3 years. evrything else is unrealistic , 100 copies would have been EXACTLY as expensive as 500 copies, so they would have done 500 copies.
500 copies cost the same as 1000 copies. Its because most manufactures don't want to make a glass master for anything less than 1,000. With that being said, you can press as many copies as you want, you just pay more per unit. And depending on the manufacturer, you could get 100 pressed, they just recommend you get more. I think also some manufacturers will press 1,000 regardless and throw away the excess copies, I'm pretty sure discmakers does this.
lol dude show me one release and then i give you right , personally i never saw one and i can say i know ALOT of stuff and the exact quantities of em.aswell it doesnt make any sense to me because of the old technical standard back in the days and the SAME costs , this fact accords with the fact that i never ever saw an original glassmaster cd pressing from the mid 90s which was under 500 copies. mikal and your responses re horrible and doesnt bring any facts to this discussion.only one who said a constructive Comment was Basement Music but i still havent seen a release like that so i guess people back in the days never ordered 100 copies instead of 1000 copies for the same price.they could order 1000 copies and throw 900 copies theirself away ,then we got a 100 copy pressing tho.