Mr Postie has just delivered this ...
13CDs. £25.
I'm hoping that Mr Claus is going to turn up with ELO's back catalogue - 11CDs for <£25.
And you can have any number of "Original Album Classics" collections, typically 5CDs in a little box for £15-ish.
I remember CDs first appearing, when they had to be priced at 12-£15 because of all the blah-blah-blah (insert excuse of choice from record company). And even today, you're looking at £10 for most releases.
Am I a huge fan of the Byrds or ELO? No, not really a *huge* fan of either, but I am a fan of music generally. Those are (were) gaps in my music collection that I thought ought to be filled, and at those prices, there was really no reason not to buy them, listen to them, and extend my musical understanding / experience / whatever.
If CDs had always been priced like this, I'd have a lot more today!
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I have topped up on early Metal for xmas, I hope the neighbours like it too.
Edit that: the wife has told me that they will be confined to the car, humph!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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There's never been a better time to buy CDs, especially back-catalogue stuff - although I do get irritated with the neverending flow of re-issues, remasters and deluxe editions, but only because it puts me into OCD collector mode so I feel obliged to buy them. Yet again.
My biggest problem now is space - I've got so many guitars, CDs, LPs, DVDs, Blu-rays, books, magazines.... there's nowhere else left to keep them. So in a way it'll be a relief when the world eventually goes 100%-download and it becomes impossible to buy anything on physical media any more.
That said I did pay about £13 each for two albums last week, though one was a 24 track soundtrack and the other a new release (Rough Trade instore event, so I kind of regard buying the album as the admission price).
Box sets have been good value for quite some time, I remember hoovering up Naxos discs a while back.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
That's something that really pisses me off. You can buy Wings Over America (the original 2CDs, an 8 track live CD and a DVD of a TV show for >£120. FFS. Oh, it's got a couple of "collector edition" books included too. I guess poor old Sir Paul needs every penny he can find.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I know, this is a community of people who mostly don't see a problem spending ten times as much on a guitar as what a perfectly functional one will cost, but at least you're getting something that will often last longer and usually retain its value, as well as being fairly objectively better in the first place.
As Rocker said, if you want to get something of that old-school vinyl sound without the cost and hassle of vinyl, run your CDs through a valve amp or old-fashioned speakers - the things that make vinyl 'better' subjectively are actually because it's *less* hi-fi, not more .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein