Smart Bitches!
Barbra Streisand may never step foot on Howard Stern to promote her new album out in stores today Streisand: Live in Concert, but the next best thing was certainly having Richard Simmons on the air today to profess his undying love for her ad nausem!
By the way, these bitches are smart as hell. Or the record companies are getting smarter.
For Babs new release, if you buy it at Barnes & Noble, you get a Bonus Track not available anywhere else, the live version of "When The Sun Comes Out," which she only sang on select dates during the tour. If you buy it at Target, you get TWO bonus tracks not available anywhere else, "Stoney End" and "Don't Rain On My Parade" (full version, not the encore Broadway Reprise version available on all editions). If you buy it at Borders, you get a DVD sampler of three live performances from old concerts ("Happy Days Are Here Again" from One Voice, "Alfie" from Timeless and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine" from The Concert), plus a preview clip of the forthcoming DVD for this concert in which she sings "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?" That DVD is actually the Los Angeles concert, so watching this, I just can't believe I was actually there for this performance.
Now, as not only an artist, but also a producer of all her work Babs knows that her hardcore fans, not to mention collectors, are going to go out and buy every version just to get the bonus tracks -- and because these are limited editions, the collectors will buy two of each, one to keep sealed and one to play.
Tori Amos, also the lone producer of her work, did the same thing with American Doll Posse. There is a limited edition that includes three bonus tracks ("Posse Bonus," "Smokey Joe" and "Dragon"), plus a DVD of two behind-the-scenes features. Meanwhile, iTunes carries the exclusive track "Miracle" and Borders is carrying a separate exclusive track "Drove All Night."
You know what this is? The new version of B-sides! Not to mention a last ditch effort from the labels to increase CD sales which have dropped drastically and still increasingly since the around the time sites like Napster started.
For those of you like me who don't want to buy every version though, you can thank God for YouTube. Do a search and you'll probably find all of those songs set to video so you can at least hear them if not rip the audio for yourself. ;-)
Of course if you have the money and you're a huge fan, by all means, support the artist.
By the way, these bitches are smart as hell. Or the record companies are getting smarter.
For Babs new release, if you buy it at Barnes & Noble, you get a Bonus Track not available anywhere else, the live version of "When The Sun Comes Out," which she only sang on select dates during the tour. If you buy it at Target, you get TWO bonus tracks not available anywhere else, "Stoney End" and "Don't Rain On My Parade" (full version, not the encore Broadway Reprise version available on all editions). If you buy it at Borders, you get a DVD sampler of three live performances from old concerts ("Happy Days Are Here Again" from One Voice, "Alfie" from Timeless and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine" from The Concert), plus a preview clip of the forthcoming DVD for this concert in which she sings "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?" That DVD is actually the Los Angeles concert, so watching this, I just can't believe I was actually there for this performance.
Now, as not only an artist, but also a producer of all her work Babs knows that her hardcore fans, not to mention collectors, are going to go out and buy every version just to get the bonus tracks -- and because these are limited editions, the collectors will buy two of each, one to keep sealed and one to play.
Tori Amos, also the lone producer of her work, did the same thing with American Doll Posse. There is a limited edition that includes three bonus tracks ("Posse Bonus," "Smokey Joe" and "Dragon"), plus a DVD of two behind-the-scenes features. Meanwhile, iTunes carries the exclusive track "Miracle" and Borders is carrying a separate exclusive track "Drove All Night."
You know what this is? The new version of B-sides! Not to mention a last ditch effort from the labels to increase CD sales which have dropped drastically and still increasingly since the around the time sites like Napster started.
For those of you like me who don't want to buy every version though, you can thank God for YouTube. Do a search and you'll probably find all of those songs set to video so you can at least hear them if not rip the audio for yourself. ;-)
Of course if you have the money and you're a huge fan, by all means, support the artist.
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