Music Banter - View Single Post - Bonus tracks, special editions, box sets: your thoughts?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-11-2014, 06:54 AM

Nobody HAS to buy anything.

All it comes down to is what's being offered and how desirable it is to you and how much they're charging for it.

I'm not going to pick up an album I already own for a bunch of unlistenable demos or a couple of B sides.

A perfect example of this was when Judas Priest re-released their entire back catalogue a decade or so ago, the extras were so laughably bad I didn't bother. There was barely an EP's worth of unreleased material spread out over something like 9 albums. When you have a live song recorded in 1986 being touted as bonus extra material from an album released 1978 I think it's fair to say they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Stick a free live concert CD with it and I might be interested.

11-11-2014, 06:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Nobody HAS to buy anything. All it comes down to is what's being offered and how desirable it is to you and how much they're charging for it. I'm not going to pick up an album I already own for a bunch of unlistenable demos or a couple of B sides. A perfect example of this was when Judas Priest re-released their entire back catalogue a decade or so ago, the extras were so laughably bad I didn't bother. There was barely an EP's worth of unreleased material spread out over something like 9 albums. When you have a live song recorded in 1986 being touted as bonus extra material from an album released 1978 I think it's fair to say they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Stick a free live concert CD with it and I might be interested. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.