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Originally Posted by hirsute_biped
In theory I want this massive Pink Floyd Early Years 65-72 (psych & experimental era) box set, but at $500+ it might as well be a million $. I've got a lot of good boots downloaded for free, some of which overlap this stuff:
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$500?! What in the high hell? Who exactly is this fucking thing FOR? That enormous sub-strate of the record buying public that a.) buys physical releases b.) is obsessively completist, c.) cares unconditionally about a band that hasn't been cool in 3 decades, and d.) is bloody loaded? Wow! Maybe it will sell fourteen copies!
Oh, and for the voracious Floyd fans who aren't insane (or are insane but also poor, or simply not wealthy) there's a handy 2-disc version of this 27 (
27) disc set for $15. Yeah... That should please everyone.
I feel your pain. Not that I have any interest in owning this, but if I squint really hard and pretend this is by a band I had an enduring passion for/interest in, I can empathize. And it only covers their first seven years? Out of a possible
FIFTY? That means there may be as many as SEVEN of these things when all is said and done. That's 189 discs at a total of 3500 USD. I don't know a single hippie turned yuppie turned rich pop-culture obsessed grandfather who would actually make this purchase. Let alone any 18-35 year-olds.
And I thought the Heady Nuggs box was bad! You can get that shit for $75 if you look in the right place. Sure, I've seen the ENTIRE Heady Nuggs collection (all Lips LP's + 20 years after Clouds + some other shit I've lost track of, on signed colored vinyl) for around the $500 mark on eBay, but that's eBay. And it's signed. And colored! Still wouldn't buy it. Ever.
Man, fuck you Pink Floyd and/or the A&R assholes behind this absurd product. Fuck you in your face for creating such a tempting(ish, to some, I guess... maybe?) product and making it so inaccessible.
Also, it pisses me right the fuck off when "newly remixed" versions of albums are counted as "never before released" material for these kinds of things. It's one thing when Nirvana drops the Steve Albini In Utero, along with the original and a buttload of b-sides and rarities, and offered the bulk of it for $30, almost all of it for $50, and the whole damn 3xLP set with bonus footage for less than $100. Or when the VU releases four-disc versions of their four albums for $90 each. That's reasonable. I spent that bread yo! But this shit defies explanation.