Metamatic Forums John Foxx John Foxx In The Glow (The 1983 Tour - Definitive Edition)

I'm still waiting for The Hidden Man to be reissued.

Well as you know it was a strictly limited edition so, yes, I imagine it will be re-issued before long.

(Please stop me if I'm starting to get tedious on this subject.)

I have a dim memory that at some point we were told that limited editions that go out of print would be available as mp3s from Townsend. Seemed like a reasonable solution -- people who miss out on the limited edition can still hear the albums, but the actual physical artifact is still limited to the first x thousand buyers.

I agree, Steve. That may be as close to a win-win situation as is possible. Fans who are late to the gates aren't shut out entirely and won't have to resort to paying inflated prices on auction sites to get the product (unless they choose to do so), the artist and record company make some money from the downloads instead of being cut out of eBay purchases and fan-circulated bootlegs, and the people who paid for the exclusivity of a limited edition product won't feel they've been exploited.

Perhaps with improved tracks?

The interview is being remixed, apparently.

With complete respect to all who are posting here, I was looking through my old vinyl single collection and found my Endlessly limited edition picture disc and re-released version's limited edition gatefold sleeve. They both sounded exactly the same as the regular versions save for some depth of sound deterioration on the picture disc (bad vinyl?). I was then confused by what "limited edition" actually meant, as I was never under the impression that the goods I bought would be the only opportunity to buy the music in question.
It is an interesting conundrum with many view points - I hope it continues to get discussed here constructively.

My lead on from this is that I wonder if Mr Foxx has found artistic flaws in the earlier material that he thinks needed fixing. This kind of thing fascinates me, as I always wonder how artists decide something is ready for release (and more obscurely, I wonder if Leonardo would "adjust" the Mona Lisa if he had the opoprtunity to do so today). I'm personally glad that an artist I like is still revisiting music and offering different perspectives, even if they are only slight changes in some cases. I'm in control as to whether I buy or not, and if it exposes the work to a wider audience, then that has to be a good thing. With the recent events that John Foxx has done (last 12 months at least), from Quiet Man to DNA it isn't unreasonable to assume that there may be quite a reasonable surge in interest in his work, that is worth reissuing some work.

I don't believe that this will water down any intrinsic value of original versions - they are what they are, and subsequent copies will only ever be such.