Divemistress of the Dark wrote:Ha! Yeah, I still have the first CD I ever bought (REM's "Green," circa 1989) and kept the long box for a long, er, time.
Ya know...that CD and its case are really a lot more solidly made than the releases you get now. Just sayin'.
Too bad its contents don't hold up nearly as well. "World Leader Pretend?" "Orange Crush?" "Stand?" Just the mention of that song makes me think of Chris Elliott delivering papers off a bicycle. (I suppose I'm one of the few to even recall the series "Get a Life.") Not exactly the image that you want when contemplating a band whose other output ==> greatness.
Anybody sees a source for the mono box, you let me know.
So we* can cancel our place in the Amazon queue, which is lamentably what I think it's going to take. The routes I see are either (a) waiting for the glacier that is the EMI boxed set production line* or (b) to pay triple on eBay for a sealed copy.
* I suppose if you want to refer to me as "Mr. Dive," that's apropos.
** Although it probably isn't their fault. Given the economic climate and the laggard sales of other boxed sets, I can certainly see why they might want to sit around and assess the demand, build the boxed sets to order, rather than letting them weigh down retailers' inventories. I keep teasing the guys at the local Ernest Tubb shop about the Bob Wills Bear Family set I've been lusting after for a couple of years - I'd almost certainly buy it if they'd bring the tag about 30% under MSRP.
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