Now don't get me wrong: I'm the ultimate Pink Floyd fan, but I'm livid because 2 years ago I went out and bought the Oh By The Way box set, containing all 14 albums with mini-vinyl replica sleeves and no new tracks, thinking this was surely the "final cut", as it were, when it comes to definitive formats of the entire Pink Floyd studio catalogue - and then the whole "Why Pink Floyd?" campaign gets unleashed on us in 2011...
This time around there is a "Discovery" edition - where all 14 albums have been reissued - and again there are no new tracks. There are no Meddle or Animals outtakes to be found anywhere - but you can get the "Experience" edition of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here (released tomorrow) which contains live tracks and a few rare studio out-takes.
If you're really keen, you can get the "Immersion" box set of Dark Side of the Moon (with Wish You Were Here and The Wall sets to follow soon), where you get a 10,000 page glossy book featuring 2 pictures you've never seen before, surround sound 22.1 mixes of the original album and the rare outtake of "Speak To Me", where if you listen closely you can hear Nick Mason fart between the bass-drum kicks.
So am I gonna shell out yet again for another format of some of my all-time favourite albums - all of which I already own??
Yeah, probably.
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