Dan Gould Posted January 9, 2012 Report Posted January 9, 2012 Got this email today: Dear Amazon.com Customer, Customers who have purchased or rated music by John Patton might like to know that Got A Good Thing Goin' On is now available. You can order yours for just $9.04 by following the link below. Got A Good Thing Goin' On Big John Patton Price: $9.04 Ships from and sold by garagesalesabbatical Product Description Got A Good Thing Goin' On by Big John Patton This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. Doesn't this mean that some Amazon Marketplace seller is making CDRs and selling them? Has Amazon transferred rights to manufacture CDRs "on demand" to select Tom, Dick and Harrys? Seems questionable to me but I guess its kosher. Quote
Eric Posted January 9, 2012 Report Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Got this email today: Dear Amazon.com Customer, Customers who have purchased or rated music by John Patton might like to know that Got A Good Thing Goin' On is now available. You can order yours for just $9.04 by following the link below. Got A Good Thing Goin' On Big John Patton Price: $9.04 Ships from and sold by garagesalesabbatical Product Description Got A Good Thing Goin' On by Big John Patton This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. Doesn't this mean that some Amazon Marketplace seller is making CDRs and selling them? Has Amazon transferred rights to manufacture CDRs "on demand" to select Tom, Dick and Harrys? Seems questionable to me but I guess its kosher. I thought they had contracted with (a single) 3rd party to do this for them, but I could be wrong. I have bought a couple of these over the past year (?) or so. Sound-wise seemed fine, but you could tell on the graphics. Kind of raises an interesting question - do you download somewhere or get the CD-R (both through legal channels of course)? All things being equal I am a "physical media" kind of guy, but this seems to diminish when the physical product is "not quite" the real thing. Edited January 9, 2012 by Eric Quote
CJ Shearn Posted January 9, 2012 Report Posted January 9, 2012 I've been getting a lot of emails from Amazon about BN titles being made available on demand, wouldn't this make the original CD issues harder to find, if third party sellers are carrying the on demand CDR's? Quote
John Tapscott Posted January 9, 2012 Report Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Bought a recent Phil Woods CDR from Amazon - Phil Woods and Strings - The Thrill is Gone. Looks like it was a Venus release, recorded just 2 or 3 years ago. Cover art and personnel only, no liner notes. Great CD, wherever it came from - Phil with a rhythm section and a small string section - highly recommended to Phil fans. Edited January 9, 2012 by John Tapscott Quote
Swinging Swede Posted April 6, 2012 Report Posted April 6, 2012 A problem I can see with this is that when you want the actual CD and are willing to pay more for it, sooner or later someone will send you a CDR instead. Quote
colinmce Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 Bought a recent Phil Woods CDR from Amazon - Phil Woods and Strings - The Thrill is Gone. Looks like it was a Venus release, recorded just 2 or 3 years ago. Cover art and personnel only, no liner notes. Great CD, wherever it came from - Phil with a rhythm section and a small string section - highly recommended to Phil fans. Can you say a bit more? I might be interested in picking up some Venus titles this way if the packaging is a facsimile of the original. Quote
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