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    • Just ordered. (JPC offers free shipping – from Germany. Who would refuse that?)

      I have a couple of their key tracks on various compilations, and the Beat Club show on DVD, so this is just perfect.

  3. The price is far more than I’ll ever be able to pay. But there all sorts of wonderful things to be enjoyed, not least the radio sessions and the TV appearances.

    A real labour of love.

    Why doesn’t someone open a Bonzo Dog Museum? That would draw the crowds in!

  4. The format is “persona non grata” for one or two CD sets, but for a release like this it’s a case of how many of the little shiny things can you fit in a box. What a bizarre way to run an industry!

    What does the Bonzo vinly completist do? Just hold his nose and lump on?

    • It’s about music in the end, not format. You seem to hate vinyl, others like it. Most people with record players will also have CD players. In fact it’s possible to see benefits in both formats (and also downloads and streaming). Funnily enough, given your prejudices you are like a stuck record making the same point over and over again.

  5. Given the regularity with which they’re churning out lavishly packaged box sets with eye-wateringly-high prices to match, record companies/copyright owners/artists must surely realize they’re shouting out ‘time on your glasses’ in the last chance saloon.

    And before someone says, don’t like/can’t afford it, don’t buy it, I’ve bought more than my fair share of boxes in the past and I am sure I ain’t the only punter who’s saying enough is enough.

    Recently came ascloseasthis to buying EC’s Armed Forces box and Neil Y’s over-priced A3 until I came to my senses.

  6. After buying a few of the original albums (Gorilla being the way in for me, as I suspect it was for many) and then buying The History Of The Bonzos on double LP, followed years later by the three volumes of Cornology in order to have pretty much all of it on CD. And then again, a few more years down the line, I bought the 3 CD comp called A Dog’s Life, to get a couple of extra bits ‘n’ pieces. Finally, tempted by the format and the cheepnis, I picked up the little 5 CD Original Album Series box for a fiver in Fopp one drizzly lunchtime. Is there the remotest chance I will now stump a three-figure sum for this lot? What do you think? That would be the very definition of madness.

  7. I have bought many CD box sets in the past but I always look for VFM alongside my desire for the artist’s music.
    I don’t buy vinyl boxes. In fact I very rarely buy any vinyl at all. It would have to be something that’s unavailable in other formats and even then it would have to pass my VFM test.
    My budget is limited and the more recorded music I buy, the less money I have for live music. Live low-cost gigs are my priority these days. Fortunately, there are enough of them occurring in my locality to be able to be choosy about which I go to.
    I do buy CDs from artist’s merch tables, when funds allow. I’ve even been known to buy t-shirts.

  8. I’d love it, but I already have Cornology and a couple of old LPs, so it won’t be for me at £250.

    I’m intrigued to find put what they have found to put on 17 CDs! They only made 6 albums, and there is some BBC stuff, but where has this all come from?

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