Ubershmekel, you are dead right! Sorry, I stand corrected. After reading the Wikipedia article I guess they really were 'back!'. (I was listening to Smashing Pu

Ubershmekel, you are dead right! Sorry, I stand corrected. After reading the Wikipedia article I guess they really were 'back!'. (I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins at the time in all honesty!) In another example of the music industry seeding their own success, I remember when it wasn't uncommon for a major label to ship a number of initial releases to record stores and then buy them back to push their artist up the charts (which were all based on record sales). The result was that the album or single rode high up the charts getting more rotation on terrestrial radio and MTV, until it became a self-fulfulling prophecy and eventually outsold the buy-back investment and then some. Thanks for the BSB correction :)