Yeah, the thing is we've somehow become accustomed to luxury and so we don't see it as anything special anymore. In the 80s, if you got one decent bootleg lp come out in a year, you were happy, and if you got three or four good ones over 12 months (as we did for a while there) you were cockahoop. The first luxury Beatles set i saw was "Artifacts" in the early 90s and then the Get back Journals and the Great Dane box. I never bought any of those because I just didn't have that much money at one time. But I did somehow buy the three Yellow Dog ultimate collection boxes, and that cost me so much money it decidedly spoilt the fun of listeneing to them.MrMurphMcgee wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:25 am I think about the percentage of my income I had available for things like this set and I’m not bothered by the price. We've gotten a ton of outtakes since 2017 at a decent price. It would boggle my mind in 1985.
Now, most fans don't really bat an eyelid at buying a 6-disc set with an expensive book and (till recently) bluray. If it isn't perfect we get all upset (including me), but if you think back we would all have walked naked through the fires of hell to get this stuff back in the day. I would happily have paid 30 smackers for a boot cd with just the alternate take of And Your Bird Can Sing.
It's a funny thing, but when the bootleggers ripped me off I blamed myself. But when commercial labels rip us off by producing shoddy lps with warping and surface noise, I definitely blame them. They are supposed to be the good guys after all. At least, that's what they always told us.