Albums Quote by Jello Biafra

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me…

— Jello Biafra

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

— Beck

Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time…

— George Harrison

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for…

— Jo Stafford

We sold over 80 million records throughout the world, and there are going to be people who want a new product, or a reissue.

— Richard Carpenter

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

— Ian Brown

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

— Prince

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have…

— George Jones

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

— Steve Albini

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing…

— Alex Lifeson

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that…

— Burton Cummings

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of…

— Little Richard