[kj] Gems of Power

[Alexander Smith]

I ordered a copy but haven't gotten anything as yet.

Alex in NYC


On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 03:08 PM, peter.west410 wrote:

> Did anyone order a copy?
> It's being released on Killing Joke records.
> They originally put the price at US$117, the first 1000 copies were to  
> be
> signed and as a limited edition, so i would estimate that they were  
> looking
> to shift about 5000 copies of Gems of Power, which would have netted an
> income of  US$ 585 000, take away the recording costs, the pressing  
> costs
> and postage costs, there would have been over half a million dollars  
> profit
> (V.A.T. could have easily been avoided)
> Not bad for a nights work.
>     I'm sure that if the message that Jaz wanted to say was so  
> important,
> then he would have made the recordings freely available on-line. Three  
> KJ
> lyrics come to mind:
>  "Money is not out God"
>   "Corruption at the highest level"
>   "You re living a hoax"
>
> They also said that delivery of the album will take six weeks.Why six  
> weeks?
> They will probably see how many orders they receive before printing and
> processing the C.D's.
>   How difficult and what is the longest length of time would  you have
> previously thought that it could have taken two people to make and  
> release a
> spoken word album!!!!!!!Considering that Live Aid got all the worlds  
> top
> stars together , wrote and  recorded and released a single in the shops
> with-in a week.Just be thank-ful that Gems of Power was nt for the  
> starving
> Africans, they would have been very very hungry by now
>
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> From: "Bob Barathy" <bob at bbarathy.plus.com>
> To: "Gathering at Misera. Net" <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:50 PM
> Subject: [kj] Gems of Power
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>> Anyone received a copy yet?
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