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Sleaz told me that while the Ape of Naples box set edition is SUPPOSED to be lim. to 23 sets.
ONLY 13 have been made and were already sold to long-time Coil collectors for about $2000 US dollars.
Sleaz also said that Ian Johnstone(who made the delightfully beautiful box sets) is "taking a break" from making them...
and he HOPEFULLY will make the last 10 later in the year.
SO, for anyone with $2000 to blow.... keep your fingers crossed!
Sleaz told me that while the Ape of Naples box set edition is SUPPOSED to be lim. to 23 sets.
ONLY 13 have been made and were already sold to long-time Coil collectors for about $2000 US dollars.
Sleaz also said that Ian Johnstone(who made the delightfully beautiful box sets) is "taking a break" from making them...
and he HOPEFULLY will make the last 10 later in the year.
SO, for anyone with $2000 to blow.... keep your fingers crossed!
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Wed, March 15, 2006 - 8:34 PMSaw today on the Soleilmoon new release list that the 2nd CD edition of Ape is now out and supposedly there is different layout of the inside cover photos (I didn't like the flimsy foldout sheet that came in the first edition anyway) and new image printed on the disc (FWIW to any of you)... -
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Wed, March 15, 2006 - 9:28 PMYES, Sleaz JUST sent me a copy of the 2nd pressing. I can't WAIT to get it!
:-)
actually, in the upcoming interview; he talks about how they were VERY unhappy w/ the 1st pressing -
- thus why there is now, a MUCH better 2nd pressing, that will NOT fall apart so easily(in your hands) to the slightest and most carefully handled touch!
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Thu, March 16, 2006 - 6:09 AMAmazing how music production is becoming a "fine-art" with the money made through limited edition, personalized releases to collectors rather than mass production.
Is this because Coil always had a wealthy, but specialist audience, or is it due to inernet downloading? -
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Thu, March 16, 2006 - 8:05 AMsick Coil fans have more money than sense.
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Thu, March 16, 2006 - 10:36 AM> Is this because Coil always had a wealthy, but specialist audience, or is it due to inernet downloading?
Both, of course, but artists like Coil have been hit harder by free filesharing and are more compelled to resort to such strategies - I'll bet Madonna or U2 could be issuing fine art signed editions of their albums that would sell for thousands of dollars more than any Coil work, but they don't NEED to - I'm not a collector and I don't have that kind of money to buy these things, and I think it is rather overindulgent, but I'd be doing the same thing if I thought I could sell exclusive fine art overpriced editions of my music and it would keep me from having to take a stupid day job in a grocery store... -
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Re: THE FIRST 13 COPIES OF COIL'S "THE APE OF NAPLES" SPECIAL EDITION LP BOX SET ALL SOLD FOR 999 POUNDS EACH! ...Plus ANOTHER 90 pounds for shipping!
Fri, March 17, 2006 - 7:22 AMDon't get me wrong. I think there's a beautiful aspect to this. I'm glad there are collectors who find Coil special editions valuable enough that they *can* support Coil.
Reading England's Hidden Reverse I'm impressed by the way the punk do-it-yourself ethos blends into the craft ethos of personalized, hand-made, releases of music to small groups of fellow-travellers. And this seems a continuation of that.
I'm interested, because I believe that the mass-production model of music is inevitably going to fall apart and will need to be replaced by something else. A deeper relationship with wealthy collectors obviously works for fine-artists. Although doesn't support nearly as many artists as musicians. I wonder if a subscription model would work (eg. the artist says "we'll release this when 2000 people have paid a subscription in advance to support it)
I guess Coil used to make money on remix and film work, which might have subsidized their own releases. But remix work also depends on a mass-market.
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