[KRAFTWERK] KW 1 and 2

[Matthew Dean]

Hey,
   
  LRC said:
   
  I see if you lived in the US you'd be one of 
those folks preaching against birth control and 
advocating pre-marital abstenence/post-marital 
monogamy. Yes, probably the ideal, but HIGHLY unrealistic.
   
  I live in South Africa and I'm one of those people. Music is hardly in the same league as
  morals and murder. Just to let you know :-)

  Glenn said:
   
  Maybe, bying second hand original Philips/Vertigo LPs from that time ? ;-)
Or refrain from buying at all? Nobody as a "right" own/have/listen to all 
their music.

Nice thinking - please tell me where one would get them in South Africa, or other countries
  for that matter. If you look at the likes of EIL, if you got an original - in comparison that
  works out at a lot of money down here in Africa for example. Especially as prices have shot
  up drastically in recent years. Call it GBP 20 for an LP - that is a few days worth of work in 
  South Africa, or a month's work in Zimbabwe. Oh, not to forget the huge postage costs, and
  anything over GBP10 value we also pay additional VAT (so 17.5% in the UK and then 
  another 14% over and above) as customs duties. Also, places like here in Africa, they are 
  still in the stage of getting rid of all their LPs and LP players, so the equipment is very hard 
  to get, just to play them - let alone connect them to a PC and convert them. I have a few 
  LPs of Kraftwerk that I got when I was in Holland and England, but no LP player. Also, as 
  LPs are worthless here, they are not worth selling either (though when I go back to Europe, 
  I will make a killing!). I actually reckon that I'm among the only people in Southern Africa 
  who actually have Kraftwerk LPs, and then definitely the rarer ones at that...
   
  Then here's a grey area - I have Exceller 8 and Elektro Kinetik. I didn't have the LP player
  or means to convert, but I did get a chance to listen to them. I used my bootlegs, then
  edited the songs to sound EXACTLY like the LP's edits. Now, am I a bad boy because I 
  used CD bootlegs, or am I in the clear because I own the original LPs? And even if it were
  bad, who could prove that I didn't just do a straight conversion?
   
  I think Kraftwerk should just act like Neu! did in that although they didn't want to release
  their stuff officially, they did anyway because of all the bootlegs. If KW were to release the
  first 4 pre-Autobahn albums officially, nobody in their right mind would ever buy the bootleg
  release. If you have GBP 15 to spend on an old KW album, do you buy the official one or 
  the bootleg one? Hard choice... :-) I mean, even here in backward Africa, I can go to the 
  nearest CD importer and get the Neu! albums officially, whereas before I had to rely on the
  bootlegs I got some 9 years ago in Europe.
   
  Cheers all,
  Matt

       
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