Consumer Guide Album

Paul Simon: Negotiations and Love Songs 1971-1986 [Warner Bros., 1988]
As vinyl, a gyp: $12.98-list double LP (albeit single CD or cassette) with just three more songs than CBS's superb and now out-of-print one-disc 1977 best-of, nine of which it includes, though not in such fetching order. The best Warners stuff is all from Graceland and wants to go home, and though the music is fine if you like such stuff, this is the kind of consumer manipulation that merits a boycott. B