Royalty Checks for the Replacements – Huzzah!
All those damn reissues plus a book!

Banner year for the Replacements – eight CD reissues and a book! Looks like they’ll be getting royalty checks for a while – good for them. Also looks like Tommy Ramone (producer of Tim) will be getting some – not so good. I love that album but what the fuck was he thinking?

Don’t tell a soul, but I paid full price for Don’t Tell a Soul. And All Shook Down. I’m not so embarrassed about paying full price for the rest, though. I think reissuing the catalog was a great idea, better than the half-hearted reissues of the Twin/Tone albums from 2002. I’m going to acknowledge that we’re all Replacements fanatics here and not talk about the material we all know and love, instead I’ll focus on the reissue content. Read the rest of this entry »