Not impressed with this. Fair enough if they'd just include Ores, but including something exclusive stinks a bit - I'd have expected better from YMSS / fierce panda, to be honest...

Well I'm sure if you ask them very nicely they'll do a special version without the exclusive track just for you.

Hurrah! I mean, yay...The fact that Ores is going to be a single next month anyway is a little shocking but still, I think I'll be buying that.

Does this mean my original copy is gonna be worth something? I almost spilt tea on it last month, soggy cardboard is horrible.

Fucksake!

I didn't buy the original copy just so I can wait a few months and be screwed over by a reissue.

Thank goodness Ores is coming out as a single though. Cheeky muthas.

so in what possible was is there a difference between a repress with new tracks and a rerelease with new tracks?
i mean, really?
it really doesnt make much sense to me, and it certainly doesnt make me happy. how limited will Ores be? what chance do i have of picking it up?
mp3s are all very well, but not everyone has access to downloads, and CERTAINLY not everyone likes compressed sound.
it seems somehow to be rewarding people for not buying the original pressing,
ALTHOUGH
how many tracks will be on the Ores single?

to be honest, i think its great news. the original is great, loving the diy nature of it, and its good to know that they have become popular enough to justify it getting repressed.

Surely the fact that more people can get hold of this brilliant record can only be a good thing? Or is it better that only 2000 people should be allowed to bask in the glory of being able to listen to it?

We're keen for it to have it called a repress because that's what it is.

A re-release reeks of cashing in and that certainly isn't what's going down here.

We have no 'record deal'.

We have to take everything as it comes.

Fierce Panda told us that Hurrah was going to sell out and asked if we wanted to set about hand-making a bunch more sleeves. We chose not to because we wanted to keep the first edition special. We all sat round our kitchen table for a week putting each individual copy together. We never expected that they would sell out.

We like the song Ores.

We want as many people to hear it as possible.

We asked if it could go on the repress of Hurrah! because only 1000 copies were being made of the single.

There wasn't enough money to put the Ores video on the single, so we asked if that could go on the repress too.

Our friends 65daysofstatic had done a remix for us. We have no other releases in the pipeline after the repress of Hurrah!...

So we could put it on that, or sit on it until someone somewhere decides that they might possibly want to release something else by us.

We're not pissed off, it just feels that this is slightly unnecessary criticism y'know?

Alcxxk, I know you have been around for a long time and for that we're truly grateful. But we don't want anyone to buy Hurrah! twice, that isn't what this is about. Nor do we want to reward people who didn't buy the original pressing.

It was just an opportunity for more people to hear our music... And we figured that if we had the opportunity to, then why not let them hear as many songs as possible?

And for anyone who already bought Hurrah! and really wants to hear the 65daysofstatic remix, but doesn't want to download it... Send us a SAE and a CDR and we'll make you a copy next month. Email band@ymss.org.uk for the address.

Ymss xx

and that, it would seem, is that.

ores is rather good, only just got round to these guys but looking forward to hearing more.

yeah. awesome, inventive band. likeable guys. bad haircuts.
The polar opposite of Franz Ferdinand?

I have an original copy of this. So fooking what? It really irritates me when the exchange value of a chunk of plastic gets pushed up beyond all proportion. The effect of this is that the music becomes a slave to commodity fetishism, which is boring.

A while back, the first Boards of Canada ep (vinyl) on Skam was going for a vast amount on ebay, like £200 a copy or something. Then Skam re-pressed it with the same artwork and you can now get it for a fiver in Selectadisk. I like this attitude.

Let the collectors covet their nice cardboard sleeves; everyone else just wants to hear the fecking music.

To be fair, everyone should buy Ores simply for the crazy synth bit, dancetastic :D

everyone should just shut up moaning and buy everything this band releases because they are the best band in the country. FACT.

Or you could just visit the Post-rock section of your local record shop and buy all the albums from circa 1999. Then you'd have the original versions. :D

Whenever I happen to bump into YMSS I feel like I'm in a time warp. I guess no-one else is doing it now so it's still valid & interesting and all that, but I do feel like someone is covering my teeneage record collection!

Maybe this is what getting old feels like. :(

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Reissuing with extra stuff in an 'unlimited' version so more people can hear the music is surely a good idea. When the Corrs etc. do it they do it for profit, I'm guessing the lads are doing it for love of music.

Remember how annoying it is when you discover a band only to find out all the tracks you like are on an EP/LP you can no longer get? And then stop quibbling.

<goes to dig out Come On. Die Young et. al...>

Ooo, this date is getting closer by the minute.