HW: Cosmic Overdrive: Oh Dear delete if offended.. swear words afoot....

[M Holmes]

Iain Ferguson writes:

> Sorry for the following, I've just blown up....
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> cant we screw Dave (asshole)Anderson over.

I'm game.

> He really pisses me off

Moi aussi.

Does anyone have any suggestions? The first thing that comes to my mind
is that we produce and distribute amongst ourselves some stickers. These
should be arranged to state the truth (meaning we have to find it out).
Let's say that they say "Not official Hawkwind release. Avid fans say
these are not the best quality sound and advise a different purchase"

We all spend time looking at CD's in record shops. We arm ourselves by
printing these stickers (every stationers has cheap A4 sheets with up to 60
stickers on them - I use them for sending postcards) and applying them
as necessary. The record shops will soon enough notice and may take it
further. At the very least they'll avoid reordering just to avoid the
hassle of peeling off the stickers. It may not take this happening in
many shops in a chain for the word to percolate to where it needs to.

The only real risk is whether they'd avoid the hassle by not ordering in
any Hawkwind stuff at all. Would this be obvious by the stickers
targetting only particular albums?

If someone gets caught doing this then it might in the long run be even
better. Demand a chance to see someone and question why they're stocking
poor quality non-official material.

Over to the floor...

FoFP