to save some money to spend on genuinely new and interesting stuff

err..
a) you mean 'old stuff'
b) beane ony spends his money on bootleg edits
c) at least spending money on bootleg edits is putting some money back into the industry, albeit the shysters' end. buying 2nd hand only puts money into the pockets of potential paedophiles.

i mean shouty people.

haha

here's the options

OPTION ONE

Spend 4 weeks digging in dusty record shops looking for the original version of the commodores classic, buy it for 50p, take it home, suddenly realise it could really do with a re-edit to bring out the better elements of the track plus extending it for the dancefloor but then realise I don't know how to do it. Learn how to re-edit on a basic computer program. Do re-edit very badly, burn it to cd at home, unmastered (bit skint to get it done properly at the mo), play it out at in a club, lording it up behind the decks thinking I'm Danny Krivit Stroke II The Bad Bwoy Re-edit Jedi. End up looking like a complete total plonker

OPTION TWO

Go down my local at lunch, buy the new situation re-edit. Spend the 4 weeks now saved watching soaps.

It was a Top 30 record at the time Beane - so it shouldn't take that long to find the 7"

A great record - incredible moog sound.

yeah beane you bastard. buy the stupid 7 inch you wallace.

maybe he doesnt want the stupid 7 inch.

great LP. how much did you pay?

lol at Commodores edit. what next, brick house? "they looped the intro for 32 bars". just buy 2 copies.

its all bloody go round here.

oooo-WEEE look at u grumpy-pants.

well really. all this snobby 'buy the original - i did' shit.
let him waste his money. like i say, it stimulates the indie record industry in a way that the 2nd hand market does not.
plus also and also.

The best thing about the re-edit debate is, people slag em off before they've even heard em.

Reminds me of me bleedin' missus

"what's for dinner beanbag?"

"Whole steamed mackerel"

"UUURGGHH. U know I don't like fish"

"Have you tried it?"

"No....but I don't like the eyes all open looking at you on the plate"

Brilliant

"ive heard the original i dont need to hear the re-edit thankyou very much"
"its like the bible, but done as a film"
"its like: ice cream but the memory of an ice cream, twice"
"its like if you have pie and chips, only it was a chip pie, bigger"

man i had realllll trouble finding FISH AND CHIPS so i got this reedit

the cod is 3 times as long, it has 2 pickled eggs and the chips are a wee bit smaller

> its still fuckin fish and chips isn't it though ARRRRGH