So--who's in? Are there a few brave souls out there willing to sacrifice that kind of cash?
I'm glad to see that each individual section will be made available separately in 2017 (except the bonus section--which will probably follow suit way down the line too). That's probably the way I'm going to go.
I'm tired of these Pink Floyd boxes being so poorly conceived. Why do the label think it necessary to include mini posters and various other needless memorabilia? I never bought the gigantic box sets for Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, or The Wall that were over $100 for one damn album. Those things included handkerchiefs and marbles for Christ's sake and the discs weren't even in proper cases! Thankfully, those albums were available in more affordable forms though.
However, these sets seem to have a lot that I've been wanting for years now. Singles and TV appearances have been scarce for Pink Floyd fans, and now that they've decided to open the vaults they're doing it in another pointlessly excessive, ass backward release.
Just give us the music in a box and the DVDs in another. There can be a deluxe edition with both. Stop padding these releases with so much needles fluff like mini posters and replica singles. It would save you production money and you would sell more. Do it like the Beatles' boxes from 2009.
My needs are pretty simple. I want CD's compiling all the A & B sides (with additional promo mixes and such), a separate set of all the BBC recordings, the mono "Saucerful" and a DVD compilation of whatever promo videos still exist.
A couple of documentaries of the contemporaneous eras would be nice, but those things tend to get too watered down, depending on who gets to tell whichever side of the story.
This impending set is packed with such stuff, but the cost is very prohibitive.
