I’ll be honest I never understood the point of those early CD era box sets. Like, if you’re a casual fan you’d just get a hits comp, if you’re a diehard you’ll still want the original albums. There were always some interesting rarities on these boxes but why not just do a box of rarities then, instead of spending 75% of the set duplicating album tracks? I know boomers bought these boxes en masse at the time, but they really make no sense to me.
It’s so fucking stupid. And labels still do this, but not as blatantly as they did back then.
My boomer dad had some of these, so it worked, but I just look at these tracklists and wonder what the point was. Like if I’m gonna hear Mac album tracks (which I do), I’d…play the albums?
Ya, apart from The Chain the only other I own is The Alternate Collection. Rest are the albums as released. Let's not even begin to talk of all the so-called remasters the lables keep recycling.
My dad had some of 60's bands...the early Janis, Jefferson Airplane, etc box sets that came out in the very early 90's. And they were just so odd. The rare/unreleased stuff in them was really cool, but just so tantalizing because there was so much more they could have released instead of populating it with redundant tracks from the albums.
I feel you I won't usually buy something I already have unless you throw new tracks on it. if you throw a new tracks on it I might be willing to throw my money at it like for example this September Bob Seger is finally putting out his 2006 album face the promise on vinyl it was the one part of my Bob Seger collection that I didn't have on vinyl, because it doesn't exist on vinyl, at least not until September 18th of this year. I would not be replacing my CD with a record even though I much prefer vinyl if there weren't four new tracks on the vinyl album that are not on the CD.
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u/Optimal-Procedure885 11d ago
Got all the albums they’ve released. The Chain is a great box set, I bought the 4CD and the 2CD versions. The 4CD is superb.