Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Casey Jones' Case Against Lost and Found Records
Love them or hate them, LOST AND FOUND put out some crucial records in the 90's. I got this little tract in a copy of the Bloodlet live 7" (which justin is supposed to rip for us). It's nothing new, but i have never seen it in this form; a small pamphlet that looks like it would be telling us about the evils of sin, and not the evils of a German record label.
L&F always ripped off the bands and especially the fans,I remember friends who never got their ordered stuff (myself too) records send out damaged, wrong shirts being send out no help from the people their at all to change to the original order!album bootlegs by bands never signed to L&F.cheap merch produced by them!no wonder L&F is almost dead they are still selling on ebay as L&F but look at their ratings:exactly the same shit they were doing a few years ago!
ReplyDeleteThe only things I got from them was the Project X CD and the YOT Take A Stand Live CD. I bought them used so they didn't get the money. I suppose that Bernd guy is sitting on a beach in the Carribean with all the money he made from scamming and ripping off bands and hardcore kids......
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I'm not a friend of Bernd Granz.
ReplyDeleteL&F put out some horrible looking bootlegs and shirt thats for sure, but as far as I know some ex-bandmembers of these bands got money. I talked to one of them and he took money in advance...Then the shit happens...It's not that easy.
In the case of Ignite I think L&F did a lot for them. I saw the band on their first tour with slapshot and growing movement. L&F did a lot of promo for them. Sure they promoted them as an all star SxE band but as far as I remember, and I saw them maybe 20 times, Ignite were a little quite about this stuff in the beginning. Later they started to blame L&F for their reasons.
Who cares about L&F today?
Ignite is still a geat band...
Just my point of view.
L&F is irrelevant now. The internet has made available all that is rare and out of print. Back then though, lots of rare releases were made available to people like myself. It's a shame many of the bands never got anything in return though.
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