postpunkmonk wrote:audiodile wrote:You only need look at the recent Dead Or Alive "Sophisticated Boom Box" set, the original price of around $100-120 might have seemed steep at the time, but now if you can even find a copy you're going to pay twice that.
I didn't get it because I assumed they'd release expanded editions of the individual albums, but there's no sign of that and now I'm wondering if I missed my chance. So I'm not sure if I'd be willing to wait if you really want these.
I thought that "Sophisticated Boom Box" was a bargain…if I were that big a fan of DOA I would have surely made it happen. What
irritated me was the Roxy Music boxed set of CDs with 2xCDs of rare edits, mixes, and non-LP A/B sides. I didn't buy it for $70 in 2012 because I was waiting for the Super Deluxe Boxed sets of each album for $80 [right?] that would naturally have all of that material in it. And I waited…
six years. Finally, the SDE of "Roxy Music" was released in 2018; a 3xCD+DVD+book set with
zero of the bonus material in the "complete" set that would have been there if I had been in charge. The price? $150. And the biggest insult of all? The "Complete Studio Recordings" is now selling on you-know-where.com for $300-600!
OUCH!
what people keep forgetting is that howard jones is NOWHERE near as popular
(relatively speaking), so that won't be a problem finding these in the end.
much like the flock of seagulls recent boxset, which isnt going anywhere either.
Dead or alive really doesn't have any kind of fanbase either, but at least some people remembered them.
tears for fears fans have died out or lost interest, but they still didn't make enough to fill the demand.
i have no clue about roxy music, because i don't care about their music, but i guess they still have some fans,
which might explain their resurgence.
later
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