<![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 02 May 2007 18:20:10 EDT Wed, 02 May 2007 18:20:10 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1389576 @Jupiter8: Oh, you don't have to tell me. I pitched an editor at SPIN this exact story back around 1998 or so, when the Beatles' certifications (post-Anthology) were temporarily dormant, and Brooks was releasing bullshit like his $10, two-disc Double Live comp and five-disc Limited Series to pump up his certs. For a brief while at the end of the '90s, he was up just over 100m "certifications" and threatening the Fabs' career total, which at the time was somewhere around 110m.

(The editor liked the story idea but said I'd never get anyone to talk, either on or off the record, because of Brooks's power and influence at the time. She was right, so I gave up on it. Frankly, it would've been the perfect story for blogs, had they existed in any meaningful way at the time.)

The happy ending: in 2000, EMI released 1, which "went diamond" within a year and put the U.S. sales record completely out of Brooks's reach (especially as he was beginning his "retirement").

To be fair, both Brooks and Beatles have benefited from the RIAA's bullshit multidisc certification rule. The Fabs have several double-disc releases that are counted twice for no good reason; the "red" and "blue" hits albums are especially egregious as each could fit on a single disc but were released as doubles.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:256978:c1389576 Wed, 02 May 2007 18:20:10 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1389125 @mackro: Well, yeah, you're right--#1, it is a better way to go. And #2, at a secondhand record shop, probably one eighth of the people who want to sell you "their" old music for cash are obviously drug addicts unloading discs they jacked out of someone else's car. They're not gonna put that shit on eBay.

VanTwee

]]> 33:256978:c1389125 Wed, 02 May 2007 17:40:48 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1387939 So, how will this stop Floridans from selling used CDs online? Isn't that generally a better way to go anyway, provided you don't NEED THE MONEY LIKE REALLY SOON, MAN?

mackro

]]> 33:256978:c1387939 Wed, 02 May 2007 16:34:53 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1387444 @dennisobell:
Garth was/is obsessed with selling more copies of albums than any other artist..which is why he packaged them all in a box and sold it for about 20 bucks at Wal Mart along with "exclusive content" (i.e. leftovers) a few years back... if I remember correctly, each disc in the box counted as an individual number towards his "goal" of selling more lps than the Beatles.

In terms of juiced-up phony numbers, he's the Barry Bonds of the music world...

Jupiter8

]]> 33:256978:c1387444 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:41:54 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1387110 Trackback

]]> 33:256978:c1387110 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:08:28 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1386826 All Garth managed to prove with that little public relations fiasco is that he's a businessman first and a musician second, at best.

ghostyhead

]]> 33:256978:c1386826 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:36:58 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1386524 Half.com makes a good proxy for used cds stores. Patience is required.

silenceoftheandy

]]> 33:256978:c1386524 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:08:40 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1386372 Anybody remember Garth Brooks's insane battle against used-CD sales in the mid-'90s? This was even before he went all froot loops with that Chris Gaines thing.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:256978:c1386372 Wed, 02 May 2007 13:55:03 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1385721 Bet the majors are toasting this while they are crying into each others Crystal at NARM.

ka-tet

]]> 33:256978:c1385721 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:54:44 EDT <![CDATA[Want To Sell Back CDs In Florida? Get Your Thumbprint Ready]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/first%2C-they-took-away-the-used-cd-stores/want-to-sell-back-cds-in-florida-get-your-thumbprint-ready-256978.php#c1385345 Those types of laws are more common than one might imagine. In Arizona, selling a CD is classified as a "pawn" transaction, with laws varying by municipality. Tucson required the disc to be on hold for fourteen days, with a ridiculous form to be filled out as well.

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:256978:c1385345 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:16:37 EDT