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Title: Welcome to the marketing machine
Review: A friend of mine bought this set, and while some of the unreleased audio tracks are interesting (hence the extra star above one), a true Floyd/WYWH fan is better served by spending their money on a used Columbia 20-bit Mastersound edition of WYWH (sadly out of print, but still available on the used market). I've done careful evaluations of the Mastersound edition against all of the other versions available, and there is no comparison except for perhaps clean vinyl LP of WYWH on a top-line McIntosh tube system.Think about it. What do a scarf, set of coasters and three marbles have to do with this album? It's a desperate and cynical attempt by the music industry to resell classic albums over and over to "completists," when all they really need is the music itself, not a $100 box full of useless swag.Listen to the lyrics to "Have a Cigar" again and hear the irony of it being associated with this ridiculous consumerism-driven box set.
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