Archive sets: How to do it....

I'm sure some Pink Floyd purists will still have issues with this, but Roger, Brian, Jim.....look and learn:

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-07-28/pink-floyd-to-release-ultimate-box-set-the-early-years

These are amazing news, not only for Pink Floyd fans but for music fans in general. So much music and so many hours of video...

But to be fair with Queen, they've released much more live material than Pink Floyd.

On topic, excellent news, indeed.

Brain Damage UK has a detailed breakdown of the box set, and my god did my jaw drop. They even outdid the Immersion box sets they did for the DSOTM/WYWH/Wall 5 years ago

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/pink-floyd-the-early-years-1967-1972-27-disc-boxset-2cd-highlight.html

Those Immersion sets weren't that extensive... Better than what we get for a deluxe edition, but not very in depth.

Wow! That's pretty extensive. Still, at about $700,- it's also pretty expensive.

Hmm. ... and only $699 to pre order?

Interesting. think I'll check my piggy bank

I have to be honest, I thought their immersion box sets were a bit of a rip off,
A Discovery edition, an experience edition and the immersion edition.
I found the price jump from the experience to the immersion edition a little too high for my wallet. and yet it still somehow managed to omit stuff people wanted while including a scarf.. a scarf?

The new set does look exhaustive... high prices though

Amazon is selling it for 378 pounds in the UK or $700 in the USA.

If Queen released everything that existed and packaged it in a personally signed box at that price, people would complain it was steep.

I thought the $700 seems fair, especially for a 27-disc set of unreleased stuff. At least they'll release an individual set separately early next year, in a slightly lower price.

Pig man, big man
Ha ha...

Amazing. Truly amazing. Nevermind the price: I NEED THIS.

http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Complete_Early_Years_Box_Track_Listing.pdf

We may never hear a official recording of John Deacon singing some lines from his songs he wrote or some live recordings of Doug or Barry... But now we will get an official recording of a very rare song of Nick Mason singing in Scream thy last scream and their unofficial first guitarist Rado Klose

...Live at Pompeii with a modern 5.1 remix and Echoes in one take... (drooling)

Nice, but £378, come on.
It needs to be about half that price, it will come down for sure.
This is just part one remember.
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[QUOTE] [b]Killer_queenIII wrote:[/b]

I thought the $700 seems fair, especially for a 27-disc set of unreleased stuff. At least they'll release an individual set separately early next year, in a slightly lower price.[/QUOTE]

If you divide the price through the number of discs, it is indeed reasonable, BUT as a lump sum it's waaaay beyond the budget of the average consumer. I think they would get more sales if, aside from the big box and the 2-disc compilation, they would also have the contents of the big set divided into, say, four or five separate sets at 1/4 or 1/5 the price of the big one.

As I mentioned earlier, they will have the contents released separately early next year in six sets, likely in a lower price to make up for those who couldn't afford the full thing.