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06-20-2011, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | Why the sudden fashion for 'deluxe edition' CDs and multi-disc albums?
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This is something I'm noticing more and more. I was looking for a replacement for my copy of Level 42's Guaranteed album. I searched everywhere for a copy and finally found it. Now this new copy I bought is a double disc'er with the actual album disc and then another disc which has on it some remixes, alternate versions and a couple of live tracks.
Now I've begun to notice this more and more now, and what I find frustrating is that in the case of the deluxe editions, it's an excuse to hike the price up, and with the multi-discs, I've not found that many where the 'bonus' disc is actually worth anything.
A prime example of this is my local HMV, which used to keep in stock most of the popular Level 42 discography. Now it's got a huge multi-disc pack and a couple of multi-disk compilations. And it's the same for a lot of the CDs there- it's all these 'bonus' CDs and expensive CD packs.
So why the sudden fad for them? Is there any need to add a CD of reggae-trance house dubs of songs that no-one has heard of? Or remastering which seems to do little for the sound in most cases?
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06-20-2011, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Waterford, NY | | | Physical album sales are slumping, is my guess.
It's not a bad time to be a CD buyer (I'm a very recent convert to mp3 players, but I still like having physical albums...10+ years in music retail does that) if you like hearing demos, outtakes, remixes, etc. from your favorite artists.
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06-20-2011, 03:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | repackaging + bonus materials is one way for record/film/tv to sell stuff that would otherwise be stolen through the www |
06-20-2011, 04:00 PM
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06-20-2011, 04:01 PM
|  | Bongo and Jazz Bass Fan | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | It's an incentive to buy the album. It's not just the CD you're buying, but a bunch of things now.
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06-20-2011, 04:04 PM
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06-20-2011, 06:16 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Epitaph04 It's an incentive to buy the album. It's not just the CD you're buying, but a bunch of things now. | my understanding is along this line--to keep people buying cds, they have to offer something a digital download can't, like artwork and interviews and reggae trance house dub remixes.
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06-21-2011, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by BigOldHarry It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sort this out: Mo Money. That's all. | Yeah...and the people buying the expanded version cd-sets are most likely the same people that bought the LP...and then the cd...then the remastered cd, etc.
How many times have I bought Kind Of Blue & Bitches Brew.
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06-21-2011, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by JimK Yeah...and the people buying the expanded version cd-sets are most likely the same people that bought the LP...and then the cd...then the remastered cd, etc.
How many times have I bought Kind Of Blue & Bitches Brew. | I'm so guilty of that!
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06-21-2011, 08:02 AM
| | | | If a new CD is released, I will buy the "deluxe edition" over the regular version.
Some of my CDs are worth a lot of $$$ (according to ebay sellers) but I care more about what is on the CDs than trying to make a buck. |
06-21-2011, 08:28 AM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | During the 1980s, record labels did very well selling CDs to people who already had those same albums on vinyl. In recent years, album sales have dropped considerably, leaving many labels scrambling to find ways of keeping sales alive. "Deluxe" editions tend to appeal to "completists" who want to own everything an artist has recorded, and allow for record labels to do what they were doing back in the 80s (selling albums to people who already own them). If a company is going to make use of its back catalogue it is much smarter to release a version of a given album that both the new consumer (someone who doesn't already own that album) and the old consumer (someone who already owns that album) will be tempted to buy - which is why you won't find the old run-of-the-mill version of Guaranteed at your local HMV anymore
Last edited by bass12 : 06-21-2011 at 08:33 AM.
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