This Pixies boxset is ridiculous.
 

And when I say ridiculous, I do mean stupid.
http://pitchfork.com/news/35613-pixi...-set-revealed/

Yeah, in the other thread about this, I think everybody said they weren't buying it. Who would? Even the casual fan realizes they can find all of their records for around $30... So who would pay $150 for this? $495? The records don't even have anything new!

~Jeremy~

I was too lazy to look that up. :)

~Jeremy~

If you're gonna drop any money on Pixies, check out the MFSL master releases instead. Right now Surfer Rosa, Doolittle and Bossanova are available... all from the original analog sources (including Bossanova from the recently re-discovered master). Audiophile quality.

http://www.mofi.com/productcart/pc/s...bmit=Go+%3E%3E

175 dollar.....

Speaking of over priced.

summer, stop starting threads that we've already started! gawd!

"I was recently quoted about the state of the music business, and I was saying it should be kind of a $5 world right now. Records and tickets should be cheap, given the overpricing of the recent years and the state of the world economy. But now, this box comes out and I feel like the biggest shithead in the world."

-- Pixies frontman Black Francis at least feels bad about charging you $495 for Minotaur. (via Wired's Underwire)


via p4k

i seriously considered neg repping you for this.

people actually call pretentiousfork that? like if 13 year olds were texting about icarly?

penis 4000?

penis 4000 is my favorite website... because they only cover bands who wear neon wayfarers.

No thanks. I already have all their albums, and this thing is waaaaaay overpriced.

I guess they figure, if you don't already have all the Pixies' albums, then you must be an idiot. And an idiot would pay that much.

Who (Indie/alt rock fans) wouldn't even have these albums in the first place? Really? They're legendary records from one of the most important bands from the past 30 years. They're already cheap in the first place; Kids who heard Wave of Mutilation in Guitar Hero or loved Where Is My Mind? at the end of Fight Club have no interest in this; They already downloaded the songs from their Limewire years ago.

In other words: Is there ANYBODY on this forum who doesn't already own these records? Or at least Doolittle (And probably Surfer Rosa)?

~Jeremy~

there's a penis drawn on the cover of the faux-fur book. Interesting!

epic fail

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So ridiculous, it has to be said twice (now 4 times!).

I was recently quoted about the state of the music business, and I was saying it should be kind of a $5 world right now. Records and tickets should be cheap, given the overpricing of the recent years and the state of the world economy. But now, this box comes out and I feel like the biggest shithead in the world.

Where was his mind?

...did you guys read this?

I glanced at it but was too busy looking at that bulldog avatar.



I'd still get on my knees for you, Frank :)

He should feel like a shithead...and so should anybody who shells out the cash for either Box Set.

I'm sure he didn't have much control over the whole thing. I mean, it's coming out on a foreign record label that does a lot of reissues. He doesn't own the rights for the records so it's all out of his hands really.

~Jeremy~

What are the odds that was actually him....?

now the pixies can buy s'more.

Kim Deal still have some rehab payments to make?

i wish they would release the brixton dvd by itself. i had a pro shot bootleg of that years ago, but i lost it.

it was great

I want me some 24k gold plated CDs!!!

the boxset (overpriced and all) is fucking beautiful!!! I want to have it in my bedroom while listening to velouria 5.1 and smoking some grass.

Hey Frank, bring the Pixies to Santiago!!:D

hi.

I'm pretty sure that Greedrex will buy it anyway....

Don't be ridiculous Larry!

kelley deal was the one in rehab.

Thing is, while this box set clearly is utterly ridiculous, and far away from my actual buying considerations, if I was massively rich to the extent where I could just blow $495 on a box set of albums I already own, I'd totally buy it. It's stupid and unnecessary, but damn it's also pretty fucking beautiful...

Overpriced and absurd or not, a lushly packaged reissue of the Pixies back catalogue is still worth more to me than the vast majority of everything else that will come out this year.

There's still no way I'm wasting my decidedly non-ridiculous amount of spare cash on it though.

i'd buy it if i had the money. but i don't, so i won't :D