For me The Tom Petty Limited Edition Exclusive only from TP site, an extra 1 LP Wild Flowers costing for UK punters £200 over the 8LP version available. Favourite album and went for it. Extra LP came out for £20 a few months later. Recently announced Bruce shows come a close second. Massive amounts of money for premium tickets. Love the way Bruce Management and Ticketmaster attempt to justify it between themselves, deflection means more profits.
Bob Dylan’s “Tell Tale Signs” (a fantastic collection btw.) A 1 cd edition, a 2 cd edition at regular prices. Then 3 cd edition where the price was about $ 130 when it came out.
And in my limited experience, the bob machine has done a pretty good job keeping those who did NOT pay that price from ever hearing it. (not that i've made hunting it down online my life's work.)
I can't think that anything could top the KISS in Dubai - the 'KISS 2020 Goodbye' show packages - hats, vinyl, shirts, lanyards, a DVD of the whole thing etc. - costing well over $1000 dollars I believe. Nothing sent out to this day. Promoters blame KISS for dragging their feet on approval of edits, KISS totally silent on the whole affair. It's shocking that the band have allowed this farce to continue. I didn't purchase any of this - obviously - that'd be insane - but plenty of KISS fans are crazy enough and have been very badly burned.
We need to set a premise here. 1. Marketing have always been a great deal of the music bizz. There is nothing wrong with T-shirts, caps or even jig-saw puzzles. It’s a way to get out to the masses.
Haven’t heard it. Is it as essential as the 2 cd’s? It’s my favourite Dylan release from 1997 until today.
The Petty Wildflowers fiasco has probably stopped me dead from buying any other Petty release....I'm sure I am not the only one.
Maybe an R.I.P.-off. But not a ripoff, since Gene has promised to stop by the house of anyone who uses one of these when he gets to the afterlife, and hang out for a BBQ and maybe an impromptu acoustic concert.
The Neil Young archival releases from a few years back, specially the box that contained the first official CD issue of Time Fades Away.
The Rolling Stones anniversary box sets of Satanic Majesties, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Not a second of previously unreleased or even rare music on any of them.
I don't know. I remember being all PSYCHED for that first deep dive into the Exile On Main Street unreleased bonus tracks, and then discovering that "Title #5" was unquestionably the single worst, crappiest, most pointless and ridiculous outtake ever put out by the Rolling Stones, or any other major artist for that matter. It's 1:37 seconds long, and on top of that, it's not even recorded anywhere even remotely connected to Exile.
