Seemingly not. Mojo has had to delay due to border issues with their cover disc, made in Germany. (Uncut seemed to manage, I note.) R2R should be fine as they use Scots firm Birnam.
Are mounted cover discs on UK magazines British?
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This is something I can speak of with knowledge as I am in freight. Mojo (Bauer) like any other company that relies on imports from Europe will have received clear instruction on how to proceed and what paperwork is required. The majority chose to ignore the requirements resulting in a complete mess which is not bring reported because the government are suppressing the information. I can tell you that a major car producer in the UK is about to close down for 2 weeks allegedly to arrange ge a deep Covid clean. Reality is they cant get vital parts from Europe.
With regards to cd’s and vinyl the vast majority is manufactured in Germany (vinyl) and Netherlands (Cd’s) so yes they are delayed because of incorrect paperwork. Uncut may well get their cd’s from EU too but were better organised. It would seem in last few months there has been a race to get their latest issue out first as the publication dates have definitely moved forward. In this instance Uncut has definitely won – although ny issue hasnt arrived yet
I bought my Uncut in Waitrose yesterday. Slim pickings this month.
Has Slim got a new CD out then? I thought he’d died several years back.
Covid being used to cover Brexit problems? Never saw that coming. Every cloud, as they say in Downing Street
Are you sure you didn’t mishear that? I thought the only thing they know about in downing street is clowns!
Y`know I knew the very first comment would be from you @SteveT and the info you have given is very useful. Which is very unusual for you my Blackcuntry Cretin.
Let me get this clear.
The postman has just this minute been, and I am now “not” staring at pictures of Paul McCartney from 1965, Bob Dylan from 1966, and Jimi Hendrix from 1967, because of that 60s-dodging-piece-of-posh-school-puss Farage?
Is that right?
He may be the devil incarnate, but depriving us of the latest copy of Mojo is possibly the very least of his sins.
He has now started to pop up on pre-video ads on YouTube, flogging some investment scheme based on the “wonderful financial opportunities the inevitable short term uncertainties of Brexit give us.” The man is, unquestionably, a complete and utter arse.
You give that Utter Arse too much credit @Slug.
Not sure why they still bother with CDs, many are just immediately thrown out or donated. Maybe include a download code in the magazine to get tracks from their website?
Licenses for downloads are much higher (the record companies know quite well that anything with a download code gets copied and is spread all over the internet), and setting up a download link on the website is much more expensive than manufacturing a CD. They would also have to provide individual codes for each copy of the magazine.
One code hidden at the bottom of page 89 or something. Unlikely to be shared too much as these are not really in demand releases. Does anyone buy the magazine just for the CD? There have been some great ones but they were few and far between and anyway included a lot of public domain stuff so no costs for them. For newer tracks it is a promotional tool so probably free and with Spotify etc, this method has probably had it’s day
My insider knowledge of The Biz is a bit out-of-date, but all the focus group data and surveys continues to suggest that the giveaway CD on these mags remains a major consideration for purchase by the target demographic, and (perhaps more importantly) helps justify the relatively high cover prices…
I thought there must have been a reason they hadn’t switched to downloads ages ago. I also figured is had to be a financial reason.
Perhaps before long they’ll ditch the cover CDs and switch to providing download codes to subscribers only, which can then be linked with individual email adresses.
Apparently the latrst subscriber edition of Uncut has an extra Subscriber only cd which is 7 tracks from Weather Station. No idea what their music sounds like as it hasn’t arrived yet. It does seem like a good way to attract subscribers if it becomes a regular phenomenon.
Weather Station are a band I had never heard of, and who, maybe unstrangely, had both a top review and a piece in the magazine a month ago. Familiar a bit, thru’ Folk Radio UK, the album, which I have accessed is OK, if not especially game changing. I suspect t better for the band than the average punter.
I thought The Weather Station was a female singer songwriter, but checking on google, seems it might be a band fronted by said woman – Tamara Lindeman.
Whatever, her/their last self titled album was pretty good. New one said to be even better.
I saw Weather Station a few years supporting Ryley Walker; I seem to remember quite liking her (she was playing solo), except that none of her songs seemed to have intros or outros, which was quite disconcerting…
However, in the intervening period she appears to have learned to write “proper” songs, this new-ish track is an absolute belter…
It’s 5 tracks, a couple of them from the new album, including ‘The Robber’, which 6 Music have given mucho airplay to recently. It’s pleasant enough, but I doubt I’ll be seeking out their/her back catalogue.
I recently completed a questionnaire from Mojo which arrived in my email inbox…it was clearly angled at how important the CD was to my purchase and whether I would still buy it without etc. As others have said, very few have any lasting value and the waste of resources really annoys me too.
I mentioned on another thread that I am currently actively decluttering, and the other day Mrs. T presented me with a cardboard box full of the things which I had completely firgotten about. Spent a few days ripping them to my music database before unloading them onto a chazza, but I know deep down I will never actually play many of the tracks.
generally, not a fan of these – with the exception of the Jackie Leven cd from The Word.
The Uncut `Sounds Of The New West` CDs are very good, I think there has been 5 up to now.
The Jackie Leven CD has been the best just as Lando states although I already had all the tracks. In fact anyone calling themselves music fans should have at least five of his albums in their collection.
I used to subscribe to both Uncut & Mojo, cancelled both but have found myself picking up the mags when I see them. So I think I`m going to subscribe again. The CDs? I`m not bothered about them and even less bothered about downloads.
I buy paper magazines – i spend all day working on a screen so it’s nice to get away and leaf through a mag – alas clearly I’m in the minority and most prefer to stay on a tablet or a screen and burn their retinas till bedtime. I also still buy CDs – so I’m a total relic – but covermount discs in 2021? Why? You can’t move for music recommendations and playlists – putting one on a plastic disc is so wasteful and pointless. Surely nobody is moved to buy a magazine to get a free CD in an era when Charity Shops knock them out for 25p? The idea that a crate full of Mojo discs is in a truck queued alongside food and medicines to get into our sad little island is just tragic!
The last time I took a b unch of cover-mount CDs to a Charity Shop they refused to take them citing complaints to the Charities Head Ofrfice from the magazines.
Does anyone know about this peculiar state of affairs?
As I understand it it is illegal to sell them because they were giveaways originally, so many chazzas just ask for a donation of small change in the collection tin.
I subscribe to Mojo but never listen to the CD if it is all new music.
The ones I listen too and keep are based around a single act/genre I like. Mojo did a great King Crimson one a couple of years ago.
I forgot about that Wheaty, yes that KC disc was a keeper. I’m not much of one for compilations but single artists ones are a bit more interesting. I know a while ago they proposed dropping the CD but readers were up in arms just over replacing the Jewell case with card sleeves! Maybe they should make it subscriber only?
I can’t be the only one who has ended up treating their subscriptions as a surprise CD with a magazine attached? I have 2 – Mojo and Songlines, and although I always intend to read them I never seem to find the time before the next issue arrives. The CDs always get several plays though, in particular Songlines and more so since I have been working from home.
I still like them, and l bought a load of Mojo’s l didn’t have a while ago (but without the CDs). Naturally I have just bought over 180 Mojo CDs on eBay to add to the CDs l already have to fill the gaps. I’II be flogging my spare Mojo’s and CDs in the future, but l am a very sad man who likes to have a complete collection of something if l am saving collections. No doubt there will be the odd one l’ll still be missing, but they will be hunted down pretty soon (rather easily). The same goes for Uncut, but as for The Word – sorted, with some to spare.
I bought an Uncut last year for the “Wilcovered” CD. That was a new properly recorded effort (much of it in their own studio in Chicago).
If then came out on RSD on vinyl with bonus tracks!
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/12289
@dai I didn’t know there were extra tracks. I might have to seek this out now – I know I can get it reasonably priced on discogs.
The Parquet Courts track is a stunner and introduced me to them so there is some worth to the cover discs albeit limited.
The cover discs have always been a consideration for me.
Some of the more archival discs are of greater interest but as I almost never listen to daytime music radio, I use them as a means of hearing new stuff I wouldn’t normally hear. A large proportion of it I have no desire to follow up on, but every now and then…
There were a couple of American music mags with CDs that I used to buy when I had a fair bit more money coming in than now. “Global Rhythm” (like Songlines but with a more Liberal-Political slant to the articles) and “Jazziz” (guess what style of music that one covered).
Good discs and pretty good articles too, but the mags were about double the price of the UK music mags. I’d thought that both ceased publishing at least 10 years ago, but it seems Jazziz is still going strong. Global Rhythm folded in 2008.
Well, picked up Mojo, CD sized gap on the cover and it looks to have bee a good ‘un, a disc of Cure covers. Question is, do they “owe” it to folk who have bought it and have it mentioned, or have they quietly added Not Available in UK to the territories where it has never reached. Like N’Orn, probably, unless they can get ’em sneaked in over the southern border?!