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  2. I truly feel that Bryan is simply out of touch with the common man/woman on this. He’ll have spent ages designing the high-specification book and hasn’t taken note of other successful box set/remix programmes, such as King Crimson and Jethro Tull. I know someone heavily involved in the version of this set (more than 4 discs then, a designer on board with options for Bryan to consider…) presented to Bry five years ago and, in short, Bry wanted control of the design and his own ‘people’ involved… and thus the years went by… and we don’t even get, on either the deluxe or 2CD format, the Steven Wilson stereo remix. Not all of us have 5.1 set-ups, or £150+ to buy the surround sound remix even if we had. Stop sashaying around Monte Carlo at midnight in your gently disshevelled white tuxedo and get real, Bryan.

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    • Not all of us have 5.1 set-ups, or £150+ to buy the surround sound remix even if we had.

      And those of us who do have 5.1 set-ups and who have been looking forward to this release since it was first announced are cheesed off because we don’t need or want a sodding coffee table book for £150.

      And not including the SW stereo remix is just bloody stupid.

      I wonder how Steven Wilson feels about this? Only making his work available on the ridiculous superdeluxe editions is pretty much just ensuring that no bugger will ever hear it, I’d have thought. In the last few weeks, he’s had two new 5.1 mixes available to order – Rush’s Farewell to Kings, and this one. And the only way to hear either of them is to buy the most expensive box. In Rush’s case, the vinyl box set is the only one with the 5.1 mix included, and then there’s this silly object with its coffee table book. Which together would cost you the best part of three hundred quid.

      Wankers.

  4. Caramba! £172:00 is taking the piss in an ultra-stylish manner, befitting Mr Ferry, to which us plebs can only thumb our noses and leave those credit cards in our wallets.
    Lemonhope, are you seriously expecting people to shell out for this?

  6. ahem … it is not like me to encourage criminality, but like, music should be FREE, man… I creative search online may well find what you fancy. You can decide whether to strap on protectifs.

    Those sorts of prices encourage musical shoplifting.

  7. That jangling sound you can hear is the last remaining Roxy completists being turned upside down and being vigorously shook until every last sixpence falls from their pockets.

    So you get 3 CDs and a DVD. At a push that’s £40 quid’s worth of content although given that Steven Wilson’s mix isn’t the main event, turns out CD 1 is the same one you can get in Fopp for £5 (or secondhand for less). So to get all this in an oversized 12″ box with a poster and book accounts for the remaining £132? And….It’s not even the best Roxy album.

  8. Nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy this are they? Quit whining already! You’re just being fleeced! The whole thing is just too ironic. Remake/Re-model?

  9. Price will come down and it actually is currently about 70 quid on amazon Canada. Probably should be 20 or 30 if they didn’t put some enormous book in that most people will look at once or twice ….

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