From: weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Adam J. Weitzman)
Subject: Re: Pink Floyd Box Set
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:49:35 GMT

In article <Bx88pp.C7K@world.std.com> fuzzbox@world.std.com (U.F.Orb) writes:
>
>>>The Pink Floyd Box set "Shine On" is supposedly set for release on 
>>>November 17th.  It is supposed to contain 9(!) discs.  Does anyone
>>>have any more information on what is on those disks?  It is just
>>>all of thier albums?  Any rare or unrelased stuff?  Anything
>>>new?  How about a price?  Any infor would be appreciated.
>
>According to the latest Sony release sheets, the list price is
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>$149.98.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>All that, and no new material????? I sure as hell won't buy it.
>I wonder who will????

To answer the first question, the nine discs will be:

Obscured By Clouds
Meddle
Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall (2)
Momentary Lapse Of Reason

and a disc of early singles that are not on CD yet.

To answer the second, three kinds of people will buy this box set:

1) Anyone who paid $50 for a decent copy (the MFSL version) of _The_Wall_.
   Certainly $150 isn't too much of a stretch when you consider that *all* of
   the discs are supposedly getting the royal treatment (a la MFSL) and
   will sound much better than the ones Sony has put out to date. (Have you
   noticed how many people are trying to get rid of their MFSL _Wall_ discs
   over the net? I wonder what they need the money for? :-)

2) People who *need* those early singles on CD. The ninth CD is a DigiPak
   (Why? I don't know, I sure as hell wouldn't put one in a big, beautiful,
   $150 box set, but I'm not Sony either) with the first official CD release
   of many of the old singles which are not on CD yet. (This is the same
   type of person who bought the Kate Bush box set just for the two discs
   full of B-sides, although at least in that case it was *two* discs and
   they were both in jewel boxes. :-)

3) People (and this includes myself) who just have not gotten around to buying
   all the Pink Floyd stuff on CD. In fact, the only Pink Floyd CD I had was
   the Coulmbia issue of _The_Wall_, which I promptly sold when I heard of
   the box set. I have _Dark_Side_, _Wish_You_Were_Here_ and _Animals_ taped
   from CD onto high-bias cassettes, but no actual CDs of them. Now I will,
   along with all the other good stuff, early singles, and a nice 112-page
   book. 

Besides, I'll bet you can get it in the $110-$130 range on sale as soon as it 
comes out (watch for those post-Thanksgiving pre-Christmas sales!), which
*almost* seems reasonable. :-) List on the Zeppelin box is $70; I got it for
$46 right when it came out. List on the Bowie box is $60; I *could* have 
bought it for $40 when it came out. And of course, everyone on the net will
tell you that Noteworthy has it for some ridiculously low price as well, 
although I don't even want to *think* about what shipping on 9 CDs and a book
costs (plus, it won't fit in my mailbox and is likely to be stolen).

The artwork shown in the Billboard ad last week looked very cool, too.

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					- Adam J Weitzman
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