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Reply #30 posted 04/15/07 12:43am

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jdcxc said:

Jill Jones, Sheila E, the Time, the Family and Madhouse would still be selling albums today. What do you think some of WB's jazz and classical catalog albums sell? These albums would pay for themselves from Prince's fan base alone. Why do you think there is such an illegal bootleg market for these products- because of demand. WB was shortsighted and didn't consider P or output as "legacy" artists. For various reasons, I'm sure WB still prints albums that sell minimal amounts of cds by other artists.


You really can't compare a big corporate conglomerate to some back hole bootlegger. A bootlegger might consider himself having a successful product if it sells 800 copies in a year, the WB - probably not. There aren't enough fans to keep things in print. Hell, there aren't enough fans to keep some Prince albums in print.
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