Les disques 4 Men With Beards, d'origine US étaient vendus à leur sortie $17, ce qui n'est vraiment pas cher compte tenu des prix actuels. Ils n'ont jamais prétendu être audiophile, je les classe dans la même catégorie que les Rhino Scorpio des années 2000. Ils n'en sont pas moins agréables à écouter, et n'étant pas un intégriste audiophile, je m'en contente aisément .

I just want to join the chorus of public shaming that is going on and say that this label SUCKS! I bought a total of 4 reissues from this company's catalogue back in my early vinyl collecting days, before I knew any better. I own the first two Flipper albums and Desertshore by Nico and they all sound like shit. Very flat, dull, and lifeless with an unacceptable surface noise-to-music ratio. Seriously, I have albums from the 70s with less surface noise than these reissues... it's quite obvious that this label rarely, if ever, has access to the original master tapes when reissuing vinyl. Not only is there no advantage over my FLAC rips of these albums, it actually sounds worse. This is a perfect example of why 180 gram vinyl, in itself, doesn't mean anything. If the master plate sounds like shit, you can press it on whatever mass of wax you want and it will still sound terrible. This label's M.O. seems to be duping naïve young record collectors into seeing a sticker about "180 gram" and assuming that means it will sound good. As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd. The only record I own from this miserable label that sounds passably decent is Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star, so I guess rarely they can get it right. Either way, I think we as a community should not support this label because they clearly don't give a shit about quality and are just cynically cashing in on the "vinyl craze" alongside many other unscrupulous reissue labels. Don't get me wrong though, there are some labels out there providing much needed reissues for albums that would otherwise be out of reach for most of us. The difference, though, is those labels actually take pride in putting out a record that sounds good.

It is not 4 men with beards, that's just what these corporate wankers think of the demographic that they continue to peddle their utterly worthless PISH to. What's really galling is that it stops other, better, labels from reissuing these often crucial, and often expensive records. Utter cunts