I remember paying like 70 to preorder it (I missed the deadline to get my name in the book ), So I'd say 40 is more worth it.
Sweet. Well I'll have to wait til next week (or the week after) for my paycheck to come in, then to clear funds into my PayPal account to order it! HITR is the only Marillion studio album I don't own now! And I even just won (on eBay) the campaign edition of
Anoraknophobia (for a hefty price, but totally worth it).
As a side note, I have REALLY been into Marillion lately, and it's clicked with me finally - all the latter-day H-era stuff - and I'm digging albums like
Anoraknophobia,
marillion.com and
This Strange Engine. Even
Radiation has some good tracks on it... and I've actually grown to enjoy most of
Somewhere Else!
I've also come to view the band's discography in chunks/eras (kind of like Rush, and coincidentally, they're bookended with official live albums) - Fish-Era with
The Thieving Magpie, H-Era I (the four H albums released with EMI) with
Made Again Live, H-Era II (the 3 following albums released on Castle Records and
Anoraknophobia) with
Anorak In The UK, and H-Era III (
Marbles through
Less Is More)... which I hope means an official live album comes out this or next year.
It's just so chill and relaxing and most of the music is just amazing to me now that it's all clicked. A couple years ago, I bought
Somewhere Else not long after it's release, at a local FYE, and was hoping I'd hear something like TA or Kino, but was wrong, and the album faded away and gathered dust. Then a year or so later, I bought
Script For A Jester's Tear and was surprised at the Genesis-esque sound the band had developed in it's early days. I wasn't in the classic-prog mood at the time so that album fell to the wayside.
Then I heard
Marbles and at that time, I was struck by the albums many moods and sounds, and it stuck to me immediately. Since then, I've sought out everything by Marillion (studio, live, even their Racket Records stuff), but mostly recently I've gone into overdrive getting their albums and have spent (quite a bit actually) to get what I want! The band's whole career makes sense to me now, and it's easy for me to move back and forth between eras and understand where the band was and would be going to.
That being the case, I am really excited to hear what the band does next time they hit the studio to record a new album!
-Marc.