Here's some more controversy for you: I think that anyone who buys the "Studio Albums" boxed set-unless they don't already have all or most of those discs-is wasting their money!
Now..I WILL admit that I'm NOT much of a collector, If I buy something like that, it would pretty much be for the ENTERTAINMENT value only, not as an investment that I expected to make money off of later.
But I would have done it differently. I would have compiled an odds and ends collection of things that either don't exist any where else and/or things we can only get from YtseJam. Such as:
-ALL of the unreleased tracks from FII
-At least SOME of the Majesty demos
-Audio (CD) versions of the "Covers" series such as "Dark Side" (Pink Floyd) "Beast" (Iron Maiden) "Puppets" (Metallica) and the "Uncovered 2003-2005" disc.
-BOTH of the studio versions of "To Live Forever" (Charlie version/James version)
Now, I realize That it might be too expensive and inconvenient to cram all of what I-and everybody else-would want into ONE big package, so maybe it could be spread out over two or three "boxes" Also might want to include some Visual materiel, such as the "Rite of Passage" video, and The "Once in a LiveTime" concert, and/or some other, unreleased live footage.
Of course I know I'm going to hear at least a hundred different reasons why this couldn't be done, but I can dream, can't I?
Other than that, I just want to say that I think it's too SOON to be putting out the box set the way they did. They should have waited a few years like Led Zeppelin, or The Police with that "Message in a Box" thing.