What is a hard pass anyway? Does some record store clerk suddenly get a chill and say, “Wow, somebody just *really didn’t * buy a box set just now!!” You don’t need it. I don’t need it. So what???
For me the true target audience of this kind of package are young people who got into vinyl recently and maybe liked McCartney III when it came out. Paul's marketing team now wants these people to discover his older material. It's very clever to link those three albums thematically, because a recent album like McCartney III acts as a bridge to the older albums (albums that younger fans maybe wouldn't discover otherwise). Like that the actual year of release gets more in the background and a feeling of timelessness is being created. I don't think this package is aimed at us old guys. We have those albums anyway in many incarnations. No need to get angry if such packages come out. But please give us LT and BTTE next.
I thought the trick was to slip in a great album surrounded by lesser works when selling these clever box sets.
Me feeling is that they (the label) wanted to get something/anything out to coincide with all the hoopla around Paul's 80th. I've been surprised myself about all the coverage Paul's birthday has been getting.
It's business 101 strike while the fire's hot. Why wouldn't you promote something while it's still relatively popular? I'm surprised they didn't include McCartney III Imagined?!
I don't picture twenty-something vinyl enthusiasts, no matter how passionate they are, spending that kind of money for 50 and 40 years old recordings of a 80-year-old musician. No matter how great he is. Not going to happen. There's a difference between attending a concert (the bucket-list syndrom) and buying expensive records. Beside, it's easy to find I and II, second-hand, for little money. And before I'm accused of blasphemy, I want to point that I have I and II and like them (didn't care for III though), have all the Beatles albums and saw him in concert (before he lost his voice).
Of course it's happening. Not on a big scale, but there are more and more young people now keen on new vinyl.
You mean someone who just can't let it go but needs to reply to each and every post with a different opinion?
That’ll be in the deluxe edition of the box set, released on different coloured vinyl in three months time...
We aren't the old guys......we are the guys who have gained a certain amount of experience by living life and rock n roll.
I predicted a I, II, III box set when another iteration of III was first hinted at on these boards, being obvious as soon as the early marketing materials for III referred to these albums as a trilogy—only getting wrong that a full-fledged book would be included, focusing on these three albums and Paul's methods of recording solo for each with more Linda photos, Mary photos and Ed Ruscha sketches. Between everything that went into Lyrics and the Archive Editions for I and II, I would think pulling together a hardback book on these three solo records wouldn't be that difficult. Anyway, my only surprise with this news is that this set isn't even more lavish with more ephemera and therefore a higher price point. $100 for three exclusive-color vinyl records in gatefolds, and three hi-quality 8x10 photo prints in an Ed Ruscha-designed box seems fairly reasonable. The standard 2LP Plastic Ono Band reissue goes for $70+ everywhere I see. I hope all who pick it up, enjoy!
Interesting question: will young people buy the new Mc 1,2,3 box? Or is it just aging baby boomer completists? I guess there is no middle ground. It seems to me someone is buying all those new copies of Rumours or Led Zep 4 (plenty of those in secondhand shops), so I’d wager there is a market here. I’m not saying this box will set the world on fire, but yes, there will be a market for it. And as for the color vinyl craze, multiple edition phenomenon, the “money grabs.” It appears everyone from Paul’s contemporaries to some of the biggest names in music today, even a major retailer, are all doing the color vinyl, multiple edition thing. Yet, it’s McCartney’s legacy that suffers? I’m not buying it. But I am buying the new box. Here’s a few other artists playing the game: Elton John Color vinyl elton john color vinyl in Music Records: Search Result | eBay Rolling Stones Color Vinyl The Rolling Stones Colored Vinyl Vinyl Records for sale | eBay Metallica Walmart Exclusive color vinyl Exclusive Colored Vinyl Coming Soon to Walmart | Metallica.com Fleetwood Mac color vinyl: Fleetwood Mac / coloured vinyl – SuperDeluxeEdition Taylor Swift Multiple folklore editions: Taylor Swift Folklore Exclusive Deluxe Edition RARE Vinyl LP's (Multiple Variants) Newbury Comics Color vinyl Exclusive Vinyl Records: Newbury Comics
What a difference an ocean makes… this forum is literally the only place I have noticed mention of Paul McCartney turning 80. And I think most people already thought of him as probably being 80.
I already own all three and really only like McCartney (1970). I may pick up a pristine copy of that on vinyl. But this trilogy isn’t something I want to spend $100 on. Instead, I hope London Town/Back to the Egg albums get the deluxe treatment. I’d be in for that.
This. But at the same time it's frustrating that they do pointless releases like this to clog up the vinyl plants instead of putting that effort into something interesting and worthwhile. Like, some small band's new album is delayed so they can make more copies of McCartney albums that have already had multiple reissues and an album that was just released under two years ago. Meanwhile, of course, there's hours and hours of music in Paul's archive that they could press on 3LP's instead. Even Paul brushing his teeth would be more interesting.