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&#60;![CDATA[Die NYT - corporatemedia/stillsucks - berichtet über ein Projekt beim Smithsonian: Most recording companies, if they would ever release titles like that to begin with, would let the master tapes languish once a first pressing was sold out and initial interest had waned. The notion of any recording falling into history's dust bin was said to gall Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records. Dan Sheehy, director of Smithsonian Folkways, recalled that Mr. Asch used to ask if Q would be dropped from the alphabet just because it wasn't used as much as the rest of the letters. When the Smithsonian Institution bought Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987, the museum agreed to keep every title in print. Initially, requests for rare, out-of-stock albums were fulfilled with dubbed cassettes. Wer rund 20 Dollar bezahlt, erhält eine Kopie des gewünschten Albums mit einer Kopie des Booklets.]]&#62;