the Nirvana Box

I'd say it's worth $50 to me just to have it all in one place, plus I want that DVD. Out of the ones I have heard, some I have on an 8 year old cassette dub, most not at all anymore. I just won't buy a PS2 game or whatever else I'd otherwise piss away $50 on this month.

My money is on seeing it as the second disc of a "Deluxe Edition" (ala "What's Going On" & "Catch A Fire") sometime in the next couple of years.

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/ume/nbx/boxsettrailer.asx
http://boss.streamos.com/qtime/ume/nbx/boxsettrailer.mov
http://boss.streamos.com/real/ume/nbx/boxsettrailer.ram

This makes me pretty excited, its hyperbole aside ("the last great rock band" my ass). Kurt playing drums on "Seasons in the Sun," yow!

What, start 'em young?

yes, but it's the "we had arsenal on the run" version.

http://thestranger.com/2004-11-18/music4.html

Like the Beatles, Nirvana has been so thoroughly bootlegged that I'm not really sure what is useful about this release other than the DVD. I mean, how many hard core fans haven't bothered to pick up the bootlegs via trading circles or Bit Torrent over the past three years. The extra three years it took to deliver this set probably cost 100,000 in sales--at least that many people, probably more, got all these tracks in comparable quality for free. Wake up, record labels.

Advantageously for me, perhaps, while I consider myself something of a fan I never shelled out for the bootlegs (file searching, that I could have done, but I was downloading other things). So in respects, this set sounds perfect for the likes of me!

I don't think you can really blame Nirvana for releasing these tracks. "You can't sell that music, we already bought a shoddier version off those guys who bootlegged you". That doesn't make sense. I love bootlegs but come on, these guys aren't exactly Robin Hood, y'know?

(e.g. Beatles Anthology)

And the Sex Pistols where the tracks had actually been released on 'semi-legal' albums...

Still, record companies and artists should hold an advantage--while the recordings may have leaked over the years, we're still at a point where a beautiful booklet/liners can make a difference to a buyer. Personal photos and effects create value that give the labels a competitive advantage over the bootleggers; again, I don't see this as a lasting advantage, but it's current enough that it should be properly leveraged.

Yeah, I was about to say -- Kiss the Stone isn't around any more, are they?

i know it's out there

Around the third or fourth time the set was being announced as delayed, around summer 2002, was when I decided to make my own boxed set by downloading as much of the Outcesticide tracks, Peel Sessions, Rio Sessions, etc, as I could find and putting them onto 3 CD's. I find it downright lame that Krist Novoselic claimed he had access to such fantastic music when it was all just the same stuff the fans have heard already. So come November 23rd, I'll be spending my money on the 8 songs I've never heard, at least 4 of which I'm sure sound are in shit quality, and the DVD.

For fuck's sake!

Actually, what pisses ME off is that this thing apparently doesn't include the finished version of "You Know You're Right" (instead, just a demo). I mean, how fucking annoying is THAT? I still refuse to buy that stupid greatest hits cd.

I own one of course.

Incidentally, has anyone else noticed bootlegs are all color copies or epson print-outs these days? I miss the glorious days of high quality $20 bootlegs just before Napster came out.

I might buy that Greatest Hits thing instead.

got the box for Xmas.

so so good.

Kurt was amazing. He really was. What a fun guy. I just love the Bleach-era stuff -- he had such great control over his voice.

Best white-boy screamer since Lennon. I suppose i should append that statement with a "...maaaaaan". But whatever. It's so fuckin' true.

I love that first disc on the box. 'White lace & strange', 'anerexorcist', etc. ... that IS the Nirvana I fell in love with.

that's the Nirvana that ruled my world when I saw them in 1990 with Tad at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.

Heavy fuckin' metal.

god bless kurt. rock and roll

I didn't realize that Anthony Kiedis and Andy Kaufman were the other two guys in Nirvana.