Since today seems to be the day to vent my spleen in various directions, let me not spare even Bob Dylan himself. Oh, alright: not really Bob himself, but some of those who act as his business agents. On November 18th, I mentioned in this space a promotion via the offical BobDylan.com site, where customers who purchased Christmas in the Heart were being offered, for a limited time, a free 7-inch single of Must Be Santa. I suggested that those who were planning, like myself, to purchase the vinyl version of the album (released last Tuesday November 24th) might find this particularly attractive. I myself did place an order for the vinyl LP through the Skyroo.com site that was partnering with Bob Dylan and Sony on this offer. I was told during checkout that the LP would be shipped to arrive “on or around” the release date of Tuesday, November 24th.

Well, it’s now Monday, November 30th, and there is no sign of the album in my mailbox. Checking with Skyroo.com only gets me the generic message that the album was shipped “on or around” Saturday, November 21st. So it’s now been nine days. Is it coming via the North Pole? Do I have to wait for Santa to come tumbling down the chimney with it? Count me a dissatisfied customer of Skyroo.com, and if anyone else ordered the album from them on my recommendation and have not received it, then I tender my apologies. I won’t recommend their services again.

Of-course, not receiving the vinyl LP in a timely way burns even more because the main reason I’m even buying it is that Sony/Columbia has a history of putting faulty recordings of Bob Dylan’s albums on his CDs, as previously discussed at length, and this requires fans who want to hear the music properly to shell out for the premium-priced vinyl. In truth, while I know the CD mastering of Christmas in the Heart suffers from some of the same excessive loudness that has spoiled Dylan’s CDs since “Love & Theft”, I don’t know for a fact that the LP version will be any better! You can’t know until you hear it. I’m dishing out the extra money on blind faith, having already bought the CD. The fact that Dylan’s own royalties are going to charity lessens the sting in this case, but only a little.

So you can obviously take it that there is no Christmas in RWB’s heart for Sony/Columbia and Skyroo.com.

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