retailer-exclusive material
it's nice to get an album with bonus tracks, or an extra disk for that new concert dvd. how do you feel when an artist you enjoy takes a deal with a retailer for some kind of exclusive that leaves the rest of us out in the cold (u2 with their live in chicago disk, garth brooks with his entire catalog, alanis morrisette with her acoustic version of jagged little pill, u2 again with their 7 track bonus disk from target, xrt's live cds that are only avaliable through tower records, etc), and makes it harder for independant record stores to be competitive. how do you feel about this pratice? what about retribution? should artists be penalized because they engage in these pratices?
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