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It seems like by the time vinyl versions were discontinued as a mass market product, there was no more popular second spot to dump the "big hits" into after the first track on a then-newly released cd.

Interesting. Never knew that "Youth Gone Wild" was the first song on side2. It appears back in 1988-1989, the record companies were still thinking of vinyl in regard to the track ordering. IIRC, it was usually the big "hits" songs which were placed as the first songs on side1 and side2...

An acoustic cover of Gary Moore's "Over The Hills and Far Away", played with a drehleier (ie. hurdy gurdy) and cello. Without any electric guitars, it sounds almost like an Irish folk song. - Gary Moore version live in 2010. (Shortly before he passed away). - A very differerent cover...

On the surface, this sounds like a plausible "cover story". Though looking deeper into that linked sec/edgar document in my previous post, there is another issue which might be more prominent. On page 23, it is disclosed in footnote (7) that Redstone's National Amusements has a significant...

Paramount has a strange equity structure, where out of the 665 million outstanding common stock shares, only 41 million are "class A" with voting rights and the rest are "class B" with no voting rights. (scroll down to page 5 in the following sec/edgar link)...

A cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama" done in an Irish folk music style. A cover of Free Bird played on a violin with bagpipes.

From examining the episode list of Welcome Back Kotter, season 3 had 27 episodes which would take four discs even if the first three discs had eight episodes per disc. If Warner is only making season 3 into three discs, then I have to wonder if Warner is reauthoring the entire series where the...

In a more general sense independent of "autism" issues, this has always been true in a (relatively) open society for anybody who is a public figure (ie. actors, rockstars, writers, politicians, celebrities, royalty, etc ....). One should not be in the public sphere if one cannot handle...

What is your starting point ? For example, is the underlying themes loosely resembling something like "catcher in the rye" or The Joker ? For a wide audience outside of the hardcore nerdy/geeky crowd, such a film would have to appeal to "normal" people who do not care about about the plight...

The only way to know for sure, is to read the information in the *.ifo files. (Makemkv parses and processes the *.ifo files as part of its standard startup procedure every time a new dvd disc is loaded). For a quick read, I use the old IfoEdit program which reads particular ifo files...

There certainly exists school shooting movies which are not based on Columbine. For example, there is a Quebecois french language film "Polytechnique" from 2009, which was about the 1989 Montreal massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnique_(film)...

For this set, a $29.99 price smells like a counterfeit on ebay. Though with the being said, I would only believe a $29.99 price if I could see the actual dvd set I'm buying in person at an actual offline retail record/video store or wallymart. As an extreme example of this, I saw the Cheers...

So far amazon has accepted all my returns of suspected bootlegs with a full refund. In the return procedure, I explain in detail why it is a bootleg such as single-layer discs (ie. less than 5 gigabytes) with no encryption. In the return package, I also include a handwritten note outlining...

I posted a recent rant about this issue on another thread on here. https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/whats-left-unreleased-on-4k-that-you-would-pay-50-to-own-on-day-one.382477/page-3#post-5323699 Apparently bootleggers have become problematic where the counterfeit copies...

If you're asking for reasons which are completely unrelated to making silly wishlists, I do have a second big reason for doing preorders. Though this is more applicable to tv show season dvd sets (or complete series), and not so much to bluray yet (or 4Kbluray for that matter). I've been...