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Rough Trade Label sold
posted by davidt on Tuesday July 24 2007, @03:00PM

 devout sends the link:

Miserable no more: Smiths label sold off - The Guardian

Excerpt:

The music group Sanctuary is selling its stake in Rough Trade Records, the label that first signed the Smiths - famed for their 1980s miserablist hits - to the long-established independent Beggars Group.

Sanctuary is set to announce the sale of its 49% interest in the loss-making label for a cash sum of £800,000.

The disposal of Rough Trade, which counts Pulp's frontman Jarvis Cocker and Pete Doherty's Babyshambles among its acts, comes as Sanctuary is about to be taken over by the world's largest music company, Universal.

 
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"famed for their 1980s miserablist hits" (Score:1)
sigh-when will people learn?
RockLobster800 -- Tuesday July 24 2007, @05:00PM (#269633)
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    Routh Trade! (Score:0)
    Haha. David is hitting the sauce again...
    Anonymous -- Tuesday July 24 2007, @05:33PM (#269638)
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      she sells sanctuary [again of-topic] (Score:1)
      I guess the UK is more focused about flooding rivers, and evacuate people so a save place

      I wish all the UK regs who come here,[and ofcourse the ones that dont] who have family, friends in that area all the best and that the
      gouvernement will do everything to protect them,
      en restore the damage
      Celibate Cry <vauxhall@mail2uk.com> -- Tuesday July 24 2007, @10:19PM (#269692)
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       and the hills are alive with celibate cries
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        That's good! (Score:0)
        Sell it before it goes to the big sharks. Beggars Banquet has been there doing good for all these years...
        Anonymous -- Wednesday July 25 2007, @02:52AM (#269728)
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          Smiths buy out (Score:1)
          That's great! MayB the entire Smiths catalog will finally get the remaster, reissue, repackge treatment. It definately needs remastering and certain hard to find B-sides should B included (i.e. Wondeful Woman, Jeanne, Money Changes Everything, I Keep Mine Hidden, Work Is A 4 Letter Word, etc) . It's not like The Smiths have been making any new music so a complete retrospective would B great!
          Aveallen -- Wednesday July 25 2007, @12:16PM (#269854)
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          Very Sad News (Score:1)
          Give it another few years and there will be no records at all - just downloads. I really really hope that Rough Trade will be able to keep their shop in Notting Hill.
          shoplifter71 -- Thursday July 26 2007, @01:23PM (#270044)
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