"It’s hard to imagine now just how much money the label industry made from reissuing its back catalog on $18.98 list price compact discs."
He forgot to mention they didn't even try to improve the quality of those reissues either. The labels put disclaimers on every one of those CD's that said all the original music was recorded on analog equipment so the "reproduction" may not be perfect.
I still vividly remember replacing my old U2 tapes (War, October, Boy) with their CD's and then being disgusted to find they sounded worse than my tapes did.
While I know many albums didn't get transferred to CD with great attention to detail in the 80s... they'd had to have gone out of their way to make the CD sound worse than cassette.
He forgot to mention they didn't even try to improve the quality of those reissues either. The labels put disclaimers on every one of those CD's that said all the original music was recorded on analog equipment so the "reproduction" may not be perfect.
I still vividly remember replacing my old U2 tapes (War, October, Boy) with their CD's and then being disgusted to find they sounded worse than my tapes did.