The one in my phone tops out around 100db, so I stopped using it...
This makes 62$CDN + 26$CDN shipping for me, for a total of 88$CDN. Similar to the 83$CDN (63$USD) I paid for mine from ImportCDs. Still better than my local record store (104$CDN). Maybe they want to get rid of it? Amazon often does this when they want to get rid of an item. Amazon Canada did it for Rush - AFTK, but it was still too much for me. I should have bought it and sold the vinyls.
Absolutely worth it at that price.
That's the price it should have been originally! It was way overpriced when it first came out, especially considering that the bonus tracks weren't in surround and the book was so poor!
100% agreed, I preordered at double that price, underwhelming is an understatement
Completely agree. In the past, whenever I bought PT or SW albums, it always felt as if Wilson wanted to please his listeners with the extra content and quality packaging. I really liked that. There was a sense of generosity and respect for his listeners. Now it feels like a meanness has set in and a wish to make as much money while he can. A minimal amount of 'product' released for the maximum money you can get away with. He has become what he was parodying. Perhaps he was flagging this intention on Future Bites.
So what's your explanation for the standalone releases of The Harmony Codex and C/C Live album?
Yes, nice to still have standard bluray releases. And obviously the music remains wonderful. The discussion was about the special releases, those wonderful deluxe editions we used to get.
I took TFB as being cynical. I suspect your last statement is actually true. Or that there is much truth in it.Completely agree. In the past, whenever I bought PT or SW albums, it always felt as if Wilson wanted to please his listeners with the extra content and quality packaging. I really liked that. There was a sense of generosity and respect for his listeners. Now it feels like a meanness has set in and a wish to make as much money while he can. A minimal amount of 'product' released for the maximum money you can get away with. He has become what he was parodying. Perhaps he was flagging this intention on Future Bites.
The Future Bites was very intentionally intended to be a satirical sendup of consumerism. He covers this in his book. He literally sold items like toilet paper, a can of air, etc. on his website just to prove a point.
One is not required to take everything the man says or writes at face value.
Indeed, and I'm not sure why some fans are so desperate to paint him in a negative light for this. Perhaps bitterness about the change in musical direction?
I can't say for certain if he made money off the toilet paper proceeds (lol), but he also sold a "limited edition of one" box set for (I think) $10,000 as part of this, and he stated specifically that he donated that to charity. I think of the whole concept as being part of the performance art aspect of the project. Most of his albums are surrounded by some sort of higher concept, he isn't just interested in the audio aspects but rather the audio/visual/storytelling aspect taken as a whole.
