From what I understand, Fanthology is a group of collectors who devote much time and money to research, acquire and collect Queen rarities.
Good for them.
If they want to keep the rarities to themselves, patly to ensure that their collection retains value and to have leverage to have access to other items, that's quite fine.
If they want to share them for free with a larger fanbase, that's great.
We just can't act like a whiny, needy community with a sense of entitlement and call them evil hoarders.
You thank the collector who lends a painting to a museum for it to be displayed for the general public, you don't go after the ones who keep theirs in their living room.
On the other hand I do resent QPL for not working on the Box Sets, from the proprietary archives and why not by buying a thing or two they don't have from private collectors ?
"On the other hand I do resent QPL for not working on the Box Sets"
The 'box sets' or 'Anthology' are a myth created by people on Queen fan sites around the time of the Beatles Anthology, who created so much discussion about what might be on a Queen anthology that they actually believed it was a future release.
"You thank the collector who lends a painting to a museum for it to be displayed for the general public, you don't go after the ones who keep theirs in their living room. "
A painting is a one off original. If the Louvre could create an exact replica of the Mona Lisa and give it away to the extent that you could not tell it apart from the original thus changing it from the most valuable painting on the planet to being worthless, they would do it?
Can the 'fanthology' (fucking horrid name) please just LEND me the stuff they have? Please? I will give it back, honest. ;-)
mooghead wrote: The 'box sets' or 'Anthology' are a myth created by people on Queen fan sites around the time of the Beatles Anthology, who created so much discussion about what might be on a Queen anthology that they actually believed it was a future release.
I don't think it's a myth, moog. Several people have all pointed to an early '90s fan club magazine as the initial source of the box set news. And Greg Brooks has made several vague remarks related to the box set over the past decade as well.
Which committee of fuckwits decided that a) there should be a name for collectors of particularly rare material, and b) that it should be something as Bieber-esque as "Fanthology"?
I can see people I previously thought of as intelligent acting like cunts, and failing to give the cunts the short shrift that they would otherwise rightly receive.
"On the other hand I do resent QPL for not working on the Box Sets"
The 'box sets' or 'Anthology' are a myth created by people on Queen fan sites around the time of the Beatles Anthology, who created so much discussion about what might be on a Queen anthology that they actually believed it was a future release.
"You thank the collector who lends a painting to a museum for it to be displayed for the general public, you don't go after the ones who keep theirs in their living room. "
A painting is a one off original. If the Louvre could create an exact replica of the Mona Lisa and give it away to the extent that you could not tell it apart from the original thus changing it from the most valuable painting on the planet to being worthless, they would do it?
Can the 'fanthology' (fucking horrid name) please just LEND me the stuff they have? Please? I will give it back, honest. ;-)
if I'm not mistaken, while describing the Freddie/Brian version of She Blows Hot and Cold in the Freddie box set, wasn't the 'forthcoming Queen' box set mentioned? I'll have to dig mine out and check
Which committee of fuckwits decided that a) there should be a name for collectors of particularly rare material, and b) that it should be something as Bieber-esque as "Fanthology"?
I can see people I previously thought of as intelligent acting like cunts, and failing to give the cunts the short shrift that they would otherwise rightly receive.
Penetration_Guru wrote: b) that it should be something as Bieber-esque as "Fanthology"?
Honestly, I think it's a much more creative name than something utterly retarded like "Belieber!" (And thank GOD that even the most zealous among us are nowhere near as horrendous as Bieber's fan base, on that aside!)
If you were to come up with an alternate name for a fan-produced anthology set, what do you think would be appropriate? :-)
If you were to come up with an alternate name for a fan-produced anthology set, what do you think would be appropriate? :-)
It's nothing more than a cheesy pun coined after the backstory was created. The whole fan-anthology is nothing more than a smokescreen to spin David Fuller as the bad guy and the other traders as the good guys.
The traders have been very vocal about their concern for the legal rights of QP, the financial profits of any future QP anthology releases, and for the distribution rights of the owner of the physical product.
Surely their OWN actions would be limited by the same concerns, wouldn't they??
If you were to come up with an alternate name for a fan-produced anthology set, what do you think would be appropriate? :-)
It's nothing more than a cheesy pun coined after the backstory was created. The whole fan-anthology is nothing more than a smokescreen to spin David Fuller as the bad guy and the other traders as the good guys.
You couldn't be any more WRONG, Tero! The Fanthology name had always been there even going back to the invitation I received back in summer 2011.
Inuluger can I ask you to post that invitation or is that too personal. If you are not a member and fanthology is an open secret why not bring this to light. I mean it would be good to see if the back staory was fabricated and if it wasn't maybe that would calm the board down a bit.
If you were to come up with an alternate name for a fan-produced anthology set, what do you think would be appropriate? :-)
It's nothing more than a cheesy pun coined after the backstory was created. The whole fan-anthology is nothing more than a smokescreen to spin David Fuller as the bad guy and the other traders as the good guys.
You couldn't be any more WRONG, Tero! The Fanthology name had always been there even going back to the invitation I received back in summer 2011.
^ I second that.
Please stop talking about things you have no idea about.
What is seen on the forum is rarely the full extent of what actually happens. It's like saying you know what happens between politicians and lobbyists because you heard it on the news.
So let's all repeat after me...
I don't know everything - and I accept it.
I don't know everything - and I accept it.
I don't know everything - and I accept it.
Do not change the mantra until you are in the thick of things. Or you can continue to pretend that you know and criticize the accounts of those who do know. Up to you...
