Scorpio Distribution...bootlegs???
DWJ
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I was browsing through the LP's at Rasputin's recently and it seems like almost all the rare and semi-rare soul, funk, latin, jazz and jazz-funk LP's have been reissued and are distributed by Scorpio. I find it hard to believe that they are all legit. Even stranger was that there were dollar bin commons like Diana Ross and later Azymuth Lp's also with Scorpio stickers but had saw marks. Anyone know the deal?
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i seeeeeriously hate this shit. stores need to have two sections. "new" and "used".
anybody know how they get away with this?
my impression was the ones with the stickers that say "made by scorpio for rhino records" were legit and the rest weren't...
Are you sure about this?
I can remember these guys showing up a record show in jersey a few years back and unloading about 20 crates full of their releases. everything from axelrod to the latin love in, to ray baretto and more. i don't know how they get away with it, but for $3-5 for regulars and $6-8 for the 180g vinyl, they were . it didn't hurt that some woman with a huge rack and hot pants was helping to sell them. are they legit releases? i'd like to know.
raritan 1999
i was there for that
I don't think they even manufacture the really ubiquitous stuff like James Brown or Dylan or Sun Ra, just distribute it. For example, I've been told that the Columbia & Capitol stuff is actually pressed by Columbia & Capitol. The smaller label stuff might be a whole different story though.
Yeah, but there's tons of it. There must be 10's of thousands of the James Brown reissues alone. Who's going to turn a blind eye to that?