Originally Posted by
kenneth
They don't sell because, while they are a bargain based on a per-unit [[CD, LP, whatever) price, they are a lot to shell out for the casual music fan who usually only wants the greatest hits.
Even back in the LP days [[be quiet, Marv2), artists would at times really want to release something as a double LP and the record companies would fight them hard because of the ultimate reduction in sales volume. I believe this was true of the Beatles "White Album," which of course was a 2-LP set, some of Marvin Gaye's output which never got to be released as a double LP set, and I know it was true of Funkadelic's "America Eats Its Young," for example.
I think it took James Brown and then later Donna Summer to really break down these barriers when they began to release almost all their LPs as doubles: Brown with "The Payback," "Hell," "Good Foot," several live LP sets, and Summer with "Once Upon a Time," "Bad Girls," "Live and More," and "On the Radio."
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