There are a good number of Sisters fans (maybe not as obsessive as us) that aren't on Heartland (see Myspace groups, Facebook, Vampirefreaks, etc)
This forum's memberlist isn't
it and I can see those other fans buying a standard jewelcase release and I think that it would do quite well (as long as you're not expecting it to storm the charts).
It would probably get some magazine attention too seeing as they are considered one of the top "goth" bands and you can easily write a story about how Eldritch has held off for years and now finally he's back in action, blah blah, etc etc.
A new album would probably have the same effect here as the Silver Bullet tour did, i.e. lots of new members
If you're talking "deluxe editions" I would imagine only the people on here (and Dominion) would buy it. Someone mentioned a £350 deluxe NIN album or something like that? I certainly wouldn't pay that much even if it was the Sisters! Wouldn't make me less of a fan though.
On the other hand, a sensibly priced digipak, maybe with a few bonus tracks and a nice booklet, even throw in a poster, yeah I'd buy that. Let's face it, it's not hard (or expensive) to stick some live tracks on an extra disc and call it a "special edition" for an extra 5 or even 10 quid.
I also don't think it would be hard for Eldritch to get a record deal, as long as it was a sensible deal. If he wanted the £3million mega money deal then he should've done it in the early 90s, when he still had a chance. Now he has to accept that he's not major label material but I'm sure some smaller labels would sign him in an instant. I don't know how big d-monic's budget is but if he approached them with a sensible deal them I'm sure they'd at least try to sign him, if he rang Black Heat I'm sure they'd sign him too
The reissues were released on Rhino. I wonder what kind of deal Eldritch had with them (surely he had to be involved somehow to have them released?) Was it just for the reissue of those three albums or was there something else in it? If he approved of Rhino to release them then surely he'd approve of releasing a new product under Rhino?
The old versions of the albums (the jewelcase ones) seem to be have been removed from circulation, (at least my two nearby HMVs have stopped stocking them) with the exception of Overbombing, allthough I haven't seen Some Girls lately. Does that mean Warner/WEA have cancelled all contact/contracts with Eldritch and it's all in Rhino's hands now? Surely there'd be no point in them continuing to release the standard albums when you can buy ones with bonus tracks.
