Posted by Slobodan Burgher on September 9, 2008, 4:30 pm
http://test-machine.com/burning_japan/viewtopic.php?t=1668&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Summary of discussion:
First poster:
Selling some Japanese Hardcore bootlegs and whatnot. The real interest should be in Performance of War Zine volume 3 by Sakevi. Will be selling off a large amopunt of Japanese crust when I work up the motivation to get them from my parents house. Although I will be keeping my framtid and gloom records, I don't need money that bad.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsmurfcrisis
Me:
"Some cool things there for sure...
I would greatly welcome a scan of POW #2 and POW # 3 to complete the archive at www.punksishippies.com, if not you the seller then perhaps the buyer?"
Poster #3:
"I wouldn't ask anyone that has these to scan them...i ruined a copy making the scans that are on your blog and elsewhere. If one finds them so interesting why wouldn't they want to buy their own copies?"
Me:
"Please advise, then: Is it still in print? What shop still stocks them at prices that are not "astronomical online auction prices aimed at the true collector"? Please tell me and I'll buy a copy of each issue immediately -as well as take down the scans posted at Punksishippies and replace it with the link to the shop with a message stating how to buy etc.
You see, I'm not encouraging people NOT to buy it. Nor is PunkIsHippies meant to stop people from buying fanzines, quite the oppoiste actually.
In fact, I am pretty sure that exactly because POW has been posted on PIH and elsewhere, it is now even more of a sought after collectors item worth paying for. Which is absolutely the way it should be for something that is (assumingly) out-of-print -as collectors usually know the value and will look after items better, but that does not mean that a greater readership should be excluded.
For the record, despite PIH currently being "just a blog" the intention of the site has always been for it to become a truly permantent and helpful online archive for fanzines and related literatures of the greater international punk and HC DIY scene, where all sorts of people will be able to read zines and books which traditionally has been the preserve of collectors.
If a zine will be ruined in the process of scanning it then don't scan it! As someone with much experience of research in public records office (as well as being the son of a state archivist) I have more than a basic understanding as well as true appreciation of the need to preserve documents and booklets. The same care should needlesstosay be considered for fanzines, obviously.
You say you are the original "scanner" of the much circulated POW scan/upload, please tell me: why does the uploaded second and third issues only have the covers?"
FYI.
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