Elvis Costello has turned Willy Wonka after putting 10 CDRs of new recordings inside the discs of 10 copies of his ‘The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years’ record.
Recording new takes of old songs on a cassette player Costello told Tenessean.com: “I didn't want to be like a Luddite, so I put them on a CDR, and I put 10 of the CDRs in 10 copies of the best of record that we released in April, and hid 'em in the shops in America, just to see whether anybody bought records anymore. And as nobody's found 'em yet and it's now September, I guess nobody buys records anymore.”
The pub rock veteran believes there is not enough fun within the business anymore. He added: “It's all very serious. The record thing for as long as it's gonna last, it needs a little mischief put back into it."
For now the search continues…
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