jerseypride Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-remastered-album-box-set-20140924 This article says ALL formats will be $49.99 but I can't believe that's true for vinyl. http://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/09/24/bruce-springsteen-box-set-due-in-november/16141597/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Not a huge Springsteen fan, but for $50 I'd pull the trigger!!! niblips 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sincere Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 A release of The River that actually sounds good would be simply incredible. I am definitely not holding my breath. People will probably get excited about Nebraska too, but there's not too much they can do to that one. Maybe make it louder, but I'm not sure I'd want to hear it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sincere Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Also, was really hoping his lack of appearances recently meant that they were holed up putting together a special edition for The River for release this Fall. Guess not. Would love to see that one get the treatment that Darkness got a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achillesstand7 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 ALL formats will be $49.99 but I can't believe that's true for vinyl. Especially since I think I paid $40 for his last studio album. I would love this though. I have all of these albums in fairly nice condition, but I could always have nicer copies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owenlongsworth Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I've spent the last year trying to find good copy's of these albums. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the only album I haven't found yet. I found a sealed copy of The River for $5. I also got one the of the 'Not for sale' promo copy's of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Every album I have is in excellent condition except some of the packing is roughed up but I kind of like that. I don't know yet if I'll buy this box set. I'll probably will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I have all of the albums, but would jump on this in a second if it really happens to be $50. They only have the MP3 for preorder on Amazon now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmhmm Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 No way this'll be $50...but one can hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ookowalsky Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 For $50 i will jump on it, but i really can´t believe they will sell out for such a price. If not i will buy some japanese pressings of Darkness and Nebraska. Bought an unplayed copy of Born To Run a couple of months ago and it sounds incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsgoodtobefree Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 The MP3 is $49.99 on Amazon. No way physical vinyl will be that price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blugel Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Disappointed to not see any mention of the remasters being sold separately....don't care much for the book, etc, just want the remastered albums...unless, of course, this really is only $50 (yeah, right)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 What they really need to repress are The Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils and Dust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niblips Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 if this is a reasonable price i'll buy it.... but 7 albums, remastered... likely $149.99 or more.... and that's too much for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 What they really need to repress are The Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils and Dust! And 18 Tracks, and The Rising. I'm a huge Bruce fan, but all these albums can be found for under $10. I'm sure these will sell well to casual fans who don't want to buy anything used, but it's frustrating that his under appreciated 90s & 2000s material will remain out of print while LPs that collectively sold tens of millions of copies are getting reissued. Neil Young has a similar problem - the way his Archive Series is going, he'll be long dead before I can own Harvest Moon on vinyl. Meanwhile, I just picked up a beautiful copy of Harvest for less than half the price of the reissue. kamika215, niblips, DC1221 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseypride Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 And 18 Tracks, and The Rising. I'm a huge Bruce fan, but all these albums can be found for under $10. I'm sure these will sell well to casual fans who don't want to buy anything used, but it's frustrating that his under appreciated 90s & 2000s material will remain out of print while LPs that collectively sold tens of millions of copies are getting reissued. Neil Young has a similar problem - the way his Archive Series is going, he'll be long dead before I can own Harvest Moon on vinyl. Meanwhile, I just picked up a beautiful copy of Harvest for less than half the price of the reissue. Truth you speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seangj Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 And 18 Tracks, and The Rising. I'm a huge Bruce fan, but all these albums can be found for under $10. I'm sure these will sell well to casual fans who don't want to buy anything used, but it's frustrating that his under appreciated 90s & 2000s material will remain out of print while LPs that collectively sold tens of millions of copies are getting reissued. Neil Young has a similar problem - the way his Archive Series is going, he'll be long dead before I can own Harvest Moon on vinyl. Meanwhile, I just picked up a beautiful copy of Harvest for less than half the price of the reissue. This. Especially with 18 Tracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydenvermint Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 For $50 my body is ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sincere Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Man, forget 18 Tracks. The whole Tracks set needs a vinyl treatment. Minus some of the 4th disc, that box is gold. Also, gotta disagree with the argument that these are all widely available for nextt to nothing. That might have been true a few years ago. You could go into any record store and find copies of all his pre-90s stuff for a few bucks. But that's not really the case anymore with some of these. Nebraska is a lot more rare these days. Even BITUSA is tough to find. Maybe it's just in the NJ/NYC market, but I don't think a lot of these are anywhere near as common as they once were with the exception of maybe Born To Run and The River. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsgoodtobefree Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Amazon CA has listed the vinyl for $236. So yeah, no chance of getting these for $50 haha. You should be able to find all OG pressings for $50 in great shape. They're cheap and aren't hard to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobfrombob Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Man, forget 18 Tracks. The whole Tracks set needs a vinyl treatment. Minus some of the 4th disc, that box is gold. Also, gotta disagree with the argument that these are all widely available for nextt to nothing. That might have been true a few years ago. You could go into any record store and find copies of all his pre-90s stuff for a few bucks. But that's not really the case anymore with some of these. Nebraska is a lot more rare these days. Even BITUSA is tough to find. Maybe it's just in the NJ/NYC market, but I don't think a lot of these are anywhere near as common as they once were with the exception of maybe Born To Run and The River. Maybe that's a Jersy problem? Greetings and Nebraska not as much, but I see the others pretty much weekly. And I certiainly see Greetings and Nebraska often enough that it wouldn't be hard to get a copy. I know I've seen similar messages on other artists (eg "I see used Pink Floyd all the time") that are fairly rare here. So maybe it's a region-by-region thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filthyrich Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 My issue with vintage Springsteen vinyl is that Columbia (and Bruce's own camp) just didn't take that much care with the pressings. I actually picked up a SEALED copy of Nebraska recently... and it was STILL noisy. Not terribly so, but that shows you that these weren't top-quality pressings back in the day. Tunnel Of Love (not in this set) actually sounds amazing on vinyl, even though it's far from my favorite Bruce album. They did that one right. The first two sound decent, ditto BITUSA (aside from that 80s production). BTR has always sounded muddy to me (although the rare first pressings supposedly sound much better). Darkness is good but not a sonic marvel, and The River is VERY trebly. (Although way better than the current CD.) And I mentioned Nebraska. So basically, if the reviews come in and these new masterings trump the OPs (unlikely, but you never know), I might have to lighten my wallet. But otherwise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Yeah, I've seen a $5 copy of BITUSA at every record store in the Twin Cities. That album is 15x platinum, I think at one point I had 3 copies just by accident. Come to Minneapolis sometime and you can pick up everything through Tunnel of Love for about $70. I would also love a full Tracks release. And yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Brothers Under the Bridge is the only song on disc 4 that I can listen to. Happy might be the worst song he's ever written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmoney Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 That Amazon price is pretty close. ON SALE at SSD for $230. http://www.soundstagedirect.com/bruce-springsteen-the-album-collection-volume-1-180-gram-box-set-vinyl-records.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Up at Springsteen's official store http://www.myplaydirect.com/bruce-springsteen/bruce-springsteen-the-album-collection-vol-1-1973-1984-180-gram-vinyl-box/details/32580214 It's... not $50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusted_By_Space Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Up at Springsteen's official store http://www.myplaydirect.com/bruce-springsteen/bruce-springsteen-the-album-collection-vol-1-1973-1984-180-gram-vinyl-box/details/32580214 That's an insane price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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