A lot of the live stuff on that box set says its incomplete recordings. Seems odd to release that stuff, but that's still one heck of a lot of content. The 3CD disc looks like what I'd buy, but I'm probably not going to get it.
There is a ton of content that's for sure. I'd guess they are cool with releasing the incomplete stuff just because they want these reissues to be as comprehensive as possible, so they are throwing everything in there, complete or not.
The shows are incomplete? The only songs that seemed incomplete looked like a tape ran out at the end of one song and wasn't restarted till midway through the next song.
I don't mind the incomplete shows, but I didn't see the Aragon Ballroom show on CD, only vinyl. The vinyl is wasted on me, so...
On the 10 disc set there are some incomplete shows. They look like it's mostly all there, but there are a few notes like:
*Note: Someone didn’t hit record until after we started playing.
*Note: The tape ran out before we finished the song.
*Note: Filming cuts during the guitar solo.
And yea, I agree, it's just them getting what they have in the vaults out to people which is cool, I just can't recall bands releasing incomplete concerts like this before. You'd have to be a pretty big fan to buy that set though so it's still pretty cool to get that stuff in the hands of the fans.