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Games Workshop aren’t a monopoly, they operate in one of the most competitive markets out there.  The last CEO might have believed he ran a monopoly and tried to operate the company as if it was one, but look were that got him and the share price.  Also given that they have been struggling to keep certain product on the shelves in the recent past, I would argue that they don’t charge enough for these products but what would I know.  There are a few of their business practices that could be argued as being anti-competitive but I’d assume the law of the land allows it.

Monopolies are a wonderful thing to study, but they are very misunderstood.  Microsoft never charged the monopoly price for Windows, not anywhere close to it, and yet people moaned and groaned that they charged too much… did they fuck!  They did some other naughty things though but abusing their power through pricing was not one of them.

@rayzryr alphabetical by band name, then albums from each band in chronological order.  The only way to organise a music collection.

@unclejimmy and @ceppie those are actually Battlefront/Flames of War tanks, the metal gubbins are from a company that Lloyd from OTT mentioned on a Weekender show a month or two ago (I can’t remember the name at the moment) and the plastic bits (in grey) are from Plastic Soldier.

@unclejimmy I remember Tank – they released an album last year, it isn’t very good compared to their 80s output.  Filth Hounds of Hades is perhaps the album cover you are thinking off.  I have quite a few of there albums on vinyl.  Musically, they were decent – more in the Motorhead school of rock.  (He Fell in Love with a) Stormtrooper is probably their most familiar track!

Supposedly Brian May meet D-Rok in a Games Workshop store and they asked him if he wanted to play on the record.  May’s son was heavily into Warhammer.  I think it was Kev Adams who had the “honour” of showing May how to sculpt some Orks (they might have been vehicles for Epic) when he and his son turned up at the GW offices for a tour.  There are pictures of it in a very old White Dwarf.  Warhammer Records didn’t last long, but they did release a Saxon album.

John Peel was great, he championed Carcass, Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower – Games Workshop tried to sign Bolt Thrower to Warhammer Records after someone at the company heard them either on John Peel or Tommy Vance’s Friday Rock Show.  They signed with Earache instead but leased the artwork from GW.  That lease has lapsed and the version sold of Realm of Chaos has some nice new art!