If This Is The Direction The Record Hobby is Going, Then Let Me Off Now.

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I like George Harrison. I don't mind All Things Must Pass. I have spent what I feel to be stupid amounts of money on record sets. Like my Nat King Cole Story reissue box, or my 1952, autographed Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson set. But this, is friggin insane. I mean, offensively so.


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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass: Uber Deluxe (180g Vinyl 8LP + 5CD + Blu-ray + Book Box) ***

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prime minister said:
I like George Harrison. I don't mind All Things Must Pass. I have spent what I feel to be stupid amounts of money on record sets. Like my Nat King Cole Story reissue box, or my 1952, autographed Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson set. But this, is friggin insane. I mean, offensively so.


www.musicdirect.com

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass: Uber Deluxe (180g Vinyl 8LP + 5CD + Blu-ray + Book Box) ***

The world's largest online retailer of high-end audio, audiophile music, and accessories. We specialize in vinyl records and turntables.
www.musicdirect.com www.musicdirect.com
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When it said “interest free financing”, I thought; this has to be expensive…..wow!
I may have the Nat KC story set, off to check!
 
It really would have been a great single album. A much better single album. A true classic.

That said, Beatles fans have proven to be an endless trough for the record company grift. Maybe they need a union or something.
 
prime minister said:
I like George Harrison. I don't mind All Things Must Pass. I have spent what I feel to be stupid amounts of money on record sets. Like my Nat King Cole Story reissue box, or my 1952, autographed Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson set. But this, is friggin insane. I mean, offensively so.


www.musicdirect.com

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass: Uber Deluxe (180g Vinyl 8LP + 5CD + Blu-ray + Book Box) ***

The world's largest online retailer of high-end audio, audiophile music, and accessories. We specialize in vinyl records and turntables.
www.musicdirect.com www.musicdirect.com
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Sheer insanity, I can't stand it when they force you to take all formats in one package. You should always be able to separate the vinyl from the Digital, and the CDs from the Blu-ray, as so many people will have no use for one or the other.

The books, while probably quite nice and no doubt part of what makes it a collector's item, are something I'd look at a grand total of a handful of times. It's also only really top dollar collectible if left sealed, meaning you'll never even look at the books at all if collectible status and value are to be fully preserved.

Then there's those bonus tracks already alluded to, or the fact this really could have been a double LP in the first place, and you have a huge rip off there at just south of $1,200. The record label and the Harrison estate need to put down the crack pipe. I really hope there is a standard CD version of the remixed original album, or perhaps a 24/96 download made available.
 
Sadly the hobby of .....shall I call it "record collecting" has fallen into something far too common now-a-days. Instead of collecting within an environment of issues that were natural to the environment that they were issued in..the hobby now milks the insecurity of the status obsessed consumer with far too much disposable cash and a terrible status insecurity complex......

I must admit , I started to notice the growth in this trend during the CD era ...when the selling point of a CD re-issue was the addition of extra tracks.....like most I did indulge BUT......I found myself using the program facility of my CD player to edit the album back to its original form.

I fell that original albums ended up in the format they did because after a long process of thought by many people. the form was one that reflected the best tracks , in the best running order with technical considerations for vinyl mostly taken into account....or maybe I'm saying that when Leonardo painted the "Mona Lisa" that is how he wanted it to appear. .....
 
The Gryphon said:
I fell that original albums ended up in the format they did because after a long process of thought by many people. the form was one that reflected the best tracks , in the best running order with technical considerations for vinyl mostly taken into account....or maybe I'm saying that when Leonardo painted the "Mona Lisa" that is how he wanted it to appear. .....
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good point about the LP format forcing artists/labels to self-edit. pick the best 40 or so minutes and break into two sides with their own flow.

tho i do love both song-based LPs of All Things Must Pass, and imho its the best Beatles solo album. @MikeyFresh am seeing on the MusicDirect site that the AtP reissue is available in various CD and LP set formats - like crazy many formats.

will be interesting to see if the whole thing can be streamed.
 
I really can’t think of but a handful of outtakes or bonus tracks on any album that I’ve ever gone back to more than a few times. Maybe a couple of B-sides but almost no outtakes.

I have a Zombies box set that includes old radio jingles and studio chatter- it’s fun for one listen. The box also includes what was left if their unrealized follow up to Odessey & Oracle… and would have been much better without the really obscure junk thrown in. That said it was $80 not over a thousand. This is nuts.
 
At that price, one would think that they could have afforded a proofreader.

George Harrison's indelible 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass has been completely remixed from the original tapes, to be released by Capitol/UMe in August 2021 in suite of 50th anniversary reissues that fulfill Harrison's longtime desire for the record.
 
The Gryphon said:
Sadly the hobby of .....shall I call it "record collecting" has fallen into something far too common now-a-days. Instead of collecting within an environment of issues that were natural to the environment that they were issued in..the hobby now milks the insecurity of the status obsessed consumer with far too much disposable cash and a terrible status insecurity complex......

I must admit , I started to notice the growth in this trend during the CD era ...when the selling point of a CD re-issue was the addition of extra tracks.....like most I did indulge BUT......I found myself using the program facility of my CD player to edit the album back to its original form.

I fell that original albums ended up in the format they did because after a long process of thought by many people. the form was one that reflected the best tracks , in the best running order with technical considerations for vinyl mostly taken into account....or maybe I'm saying that when Leonardo painted the "Mona Lisa" that is how he wanted it to appear. .....
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I'm not against bonus tracks. In the CD era, you used to be given a few extras, often B sides to singles that were otherwise unreleased. They were usually tucked onto the end of the complete album, for you to listen to, or not, depending on mood, preference, etc.They didn't hurt or change the original album. It was all still there to listen to. And, they cost nothing extra. Just a bit of a bonus to incentivize you to buy on CD what you might already own on a record.

However, this is insane.
 
The Beach Boys did a killer 5 CD box (6 for Europe) set named Good Vibrations, that I paid an incredible amount for back in 1999. $30 something at Media Play. (I miss Media Play - the best store ever.) It was a greatest hits collection that also included 30 minutes of unreleased stuff from Smile. I lost myself in those Smile pieces for weeks. What a great learning experience that was. Disc 5 was unreleased music and outtakes. It also included a pretty nice book, and a Beach Boys sticker. Looks like they should have charged $1000 for it.

They did an even deeper dive in Pet Sounds a few years later. 4 cds that really took you into the studio for the creation of that album. However, you had to be a pretty serious Beach Boys fan to delve into that.
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And a tour of a Media Play store. In all of its greatness!

 
adaug said:
@MikeyFresh am seeing on the MusicDirect site that the AtP reissue is available in various CD and LP set formats - like crazy many formats.
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Thats great, maybe the Blu-ray audio content will also be offered at HDtracks then too.
 
On the topic of bonus tracks I prefer them to be on a separate discs. Too many times I’ve put on a CD while inebriated or otherwise occupied for the whole mood to be undone by the official contents of an album ending and the “ewwww they really left this off for a reason” hullabaloo starting.
 
prime minister said:
I like George Harrison. I don't mind All Things Must Pass. I have spent what I feel to be stupid amounts of money on record sets. Like my Nat King Cole Story reissue box, or my 1952, autographed Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson set. But this, is friggin insane. I mean, offensively so.


www.musicdirect.com

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass: Uber Deluxe (180g Vinyl 8LP + 5CD + Blu-ray + Book Box) ***

The world's largest online retailer of high-end audio, audiophile music, and accessories. We specialize in vinyl records and turntables.
www.musicdirect.com www.musicdirect.com
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It's the "Uber Deluxe" set - made for collectors - display. It has all sorts of extras, Discs, surround, LP, book, including a heavy wood case. 70 tracks instead of 28.

If you just want the regular LP set py $65 at Amazon for the three LP equivalent of the original.
BTW, $65 today is about $9.25 in 1970 dollars, which is about half of the price of the original. A bargain.

So what are you complaining about?
 
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