[mb-users] "Disc #" v. "Vol. #"

[Chris Bransden]

On 08/12/06, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/8/06, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:
> > On 07/12/06, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > These were never publicly released standalone. I don't personally
> > > think the fact they leacked onto the p2p sites counts.
> >
> > i personally own releases with even less distribution than that, yet are
> > still considered valid parts of the artists discography.
>
> Of course they are a part of his discography. And they've been added,
> correctly, as a box set.


if they are valid, then boxsetnamestyle steps in and we don't get seperate
entries for boxset and non-boxset versions, just the latter.

> what's more, i believe that once a release is available separately (in
> > whatever quantity), it proves there is no real artist intent for it to
> be
> > part of a set, so it's best to add them separately. the fact they are
> > referred to as 'volumes' proves it IMO.
>
> If the _artist_ released them.  I don't think artist making a few
> cd-r's and handing them out to friends, is "releasing".  The label
> claims they are unreleased, and you can't possibly claim artist intent
> for things that were leaked illegally to p2p.


the label would, wouldn't they :) you make an EP to be given out in any
fashion it becomes a MBz release. demos are entered here, aren't they?
whilst i can see the logic in re-adding an official release of a demo
separately (demos are "released" as a necessity rather than intent), i
*personally* think that these had all the artist integrity the first time
they were released - this is just repackaging. that's why i voted how i did
= i'm not trying to change the rules here (there are none to define a
'release' for boxsetnamestyle), just let democracy sort it out :)


The fact he's releasing them publicly at all, as a box set, is
> obviously also artist intent to release them... as a set.   This is no
> major label, AK is pretty "special" and so is this artist, it's not
> like they are rushing out a compilation he didn't 100% approve of.  He
> probably personally hand wrote the liner notes.


of course. i'm not saying there's not intent to release them as a boxset,
but i don't think that has any affect on the application of boxsetnamestyle.
the releases are already collated by title regardless.
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