Man, I hate to get negative, but Warner Brothers is really burning me up with the way they are handling their catalog. First it was the half-assed releases of Aztec Camera's - Knife (The attached EP sounds like it was remastered off cassette) and the Gang of Four CD's (Solid Gold sounds poorly remastered) on Wounded Bird.... then it continues with the feeble attempts at rereleasing the DEVO stuff on Collectables. If you aren't going to do it right, then release the tapes to somebody who is going to do it right!
EMI has learned by releasing 3 CD compendiums of Gen X, Duran Duran Singles Boxes, Stranglers, Buzzcocks boxes, etc.... why can't the WB? Rhino is obviously overloaded and can't handle all of their catalog and WB is too cheap to release the tapes to another entity... (They own Collectables and Wounded Bird... from what I was told) The DEVO stuff deserves better, I mean the packaging is so lame... just a cover, no lyrics, no bonus tracks... NOTHING! Get it together.
I have the Infinite Zero releases, and will buy anything related to DEVO, and I just feel bad for the folks who don't have the releases with the bonuses and have to deal with this sub-par CRAP that Collectables just put out! Amazing.... Didn't WB learn from the Wilco incident to just put things out the right way and not to fight it?