Refilled, Reloaded… all Monsters!
I never understood modern marketing strategies pop stars use today. There has been an increase in repackaged albums that offer a couple new songs, but require you to buy the same songs you already own all over again.
Last year Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded added THREE new songs and forced her fans to buy old material for the new songs. This year has been one of the worse for exploiting fans, especially during a recession…
Eminem’s Relapse: Refilled comes out on the 18th adding 7 new songs… Eminem insists he has to get the new material on the streets now… but also admitted earlier during the completion of Relapse that he had enough completed material for two new albums and planned on originally releasing Relpase 2 at the end of the year.
Lady Gaga comes across as less greedy to me. The Fame Monster offers both new and old material (8 new songs), but the new songs can be purchased separately in non-dexlue editions.
In an age where CDs are dead technology, maybe it is more economical to purchase these songs digitally without the old material.
-Kevin
