Moreover these box sets, like any such luxury item, are not aimed at the casual fan – rare demos may enlighten and excite the long-time listener, but your basic Floyd fan, who owns perhaps three or four of the albums, is unlikely to want to own such completist delights – and that’s why you can also get the ‘discovery’ edition (the stand-alone album, re-mastered) and the ‘experience’ edition (the album, a live disc and better packaging) – both of which are far better options for anyone but the most committed. Very expensive, if you like, but then put them in relation to your average night out on a Saturday and they start to come into perspective. To get it out of the way, yes, the immersion box sets are expensive. Reviewing the dark side of the moon is surely an exercise in retreading ground so thoroughly distressed that no further imprint could be made upon it but, as with the WYWH Immersion box set, so much has been written on the web about the quality and price of the sets that it’s hard to see past the hyperbole and vitriol and actually find out about the quality and range of the content.
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