Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

I'm actually surprised that nobody's complaining about this box set because they don't own a CD player - I'd wager to say far more people own turntables today than CD players.

Right, point taken. As someone who's owned none of these things (apart from a DVD player many moons ago), I completely forgot that all of those things double as CD players.

Frankly we should be lucky the tracks don't come on a USB stick

If a box set didn't include CD's how many vinyl albums would you need to create the box set and the price of course would also be so much more .

What if it didn't include vinyl EITHER?  How much LESS could it cost?

With the release of the four rare live tracks, it begs the question, what else are they open to releasing in the archive? To be honest, I never thought we'd see a 1970 recording, so this sort of opens the flood gates.

More importantly, why did they choose San Diego 1976 of all shows? I'm absolutely glad this is what they picked, but surely they've got other live recordings of Hangman in the archive. It just seems odd to pick a 1976 gig to represent tracks from their first album. I mean, no doubt they were a better band in 1976 than in 1973, so perhaps the people behind it all picked it for quality reasons - which is a relief if anything.

That said, for further box sets, what else could we expect? People on forums like these have been chirping at Queen Productions to "Release the soundboards!" Well, unbelievably, it seems they are.

I think the main thing is, vinyl has made a comeback because of how different it is as an experience. If people want convenience, they'll go for streaming. If they want to own their music, they'll go for the vinyl, because of how different it is to streaming. 

I'm pretty young, yet to reach 20. In my experience, most everybody at my high school had WAY more of an interest in vinyl than they ever had in CDs.

There's really not much of a difference in terms of listening experience between a CD and lossless listening on Apple Music or Spotify. The difference is so negligible that CDs are kind of seen as more of an inconvenience, really. I can't imagine why a 20-something-year-old who has their phone at all times would ever pop in a CD when they can just as easily listen to their music on their phone in similar quality with 4 simple taps.
Whereas vinyl is SO different, that most of its downsides don't matter. It's the novelty of having a big, physical representation of your music. Many of my friends don't even own a record player, but they pick up their favourite albums on vinyl as sort of a memento. A testament to how much they love that album, even if they're never going to actually listen to that album on vinyl.

The maintaining of a record also gives it more of a "presence." The way you have to protect the cover, the way you have to handle the records themselves delicately, the way you have to be mindful of storage, etc. etc. It's all practically very inconvenient, but the care that goes into the process makes each one feel more valuable, I guess.

one thing that bugs me about the upcoming Thin Lizzy release; the instrumental mixes exclusive to the stand alone blu ray audio. I really want them, but with postage, customs etc, the stand alone blu ray ends up being the same price as the box set. (pre-ordered at a good price it has to be said, but still..)

The Bluray is included in the box set, isn't it? Not seen a stand alone version.

Flood gates?
All that happened was Roger briefly pulled his finger out of the dam to take a wizz and those 4 tracks leaked before he put it back in again.

I'm afraid that I'll take an album boxset with a disc of sessions (still only ONE measly disc of sessions though - there should be at least TWO different versions of a song, plus unreleased stuff), over a live boxset anyday - unless said live release is in addtion to a studio boxset and not a replacement.

With the release of the four rare live tracks, it begs the question, what else are they open to releasing in the archive? To be honest, I never thought we'd see a 1970 recording, so this sort of opens the flood gates.

More importantly, why did they choose San Diego 1976 of all shows? I'm absolutely glad this is what they picked, but surely they've got other live recordings of Hangman in the archive. It just seems odd to pick a 1976 gig to represent tracks from their first album. I mean, no doubt they were a better band in 1976 than in 1973, so perhaps the people behind it all picked it for quality reasons - which is a relief if anything.

That said, for further box sets, what else could we expect? People on forums like these have been chirping at Queen Productions to "Release the soundboards!" Well, unbelievably, it seems they are.

or even the deluxe-benchmark that is UFO : Strangers In The Night ?