Maybe we should think of streaming content as ephemera the way early TV was. Also, films and music gets lost in rights ownership fights or just that there’s no market for reissues. For example I can’t find reissues of the DIY LA punk band The Plugz outside of the 2 tracks on the Repo Man soundtrack. There are several episodes of MST3K th…
Maybe we should think of streaming content as ephemera the way early TV was. Also, films and music gets lost in rights ownership fights or just that there’s no market for reissues. For example I can’t find reissues of the DIY LA punk band The Plugz outside of the 2 tracks on the Repo Man soundtrack. There are several episodes of MST3K that have never seen a VHS or DVD release because Wade Williams (his estate now) won’t ever release Rocketship XM. Susan Hart also owns rights to some AIP films and won’t sell them to Shout at all.
The MST fans are a proven market (or, we are suckers) that can be counted on to gobble up anything. It takes a bunch of dedicated weirdos (Juggalo levels) to make it happen. Streaming seems to be a mile wide and an inch deep for now.
ps, I send JVL an email now and then and I haven’t made a plug for Sonny Bunch recently. I occasionally remind him that getting Sonny on board is why I finally subscribed. I believe that saving democracy in the USA and going deep into film are not mutually exclusive. We could argue that they are reinforcing each other: the free movement of capital and labor plus protection for speech and individual rights. Hollywood could not exist anywhere else on Earth.
Maybe we should think of streaming content as ephemera the way early TV was. Also, films and music gets lost in rights ownership fights or just that there’s no market for reissues. For example I can’t find reissues of the DIY LA punk band The Plugz outside of the 2 tracks on the Repo Man soundtrack. There are several episodes of MST3K that have never seen a VHS or DVD release because Wade Williams (his estate now) won’t ever release Rocketship XM. Susan Hart also owns rights to some AIP films and won’t sell them to Shout at all.
The MST fans are a proven market (or, we are suckers) that can be counted on to gobble up anything. It takes a bunch of dedicated weirdos (Juggalo levels) to make it happen. Streaming seems to be a mile wide and an inch deep for now.
ps, I send JVL an email now and then and I haven’t made a plug for Sonny Bunch recently. I occasionally remind him that getting Sonny on board is why I finally subscribed. I believe that saving democracy in the USA and going deep into film are not mutually exclusive. We could argue that they are reinforcing each other: the free movement of capital and labor plus protection for speech and individual rights. Hollywood could not exist anywhere else on Earth.