There comes a time as my birthday approaches when I look to my music and see if there are any substantial gaps that need plugging, and there are.
I was scanning Ebay to see what was what and came across an auction for the 4 disc 'Crossroads' set and could see from the photo that this was the Clapton overview that I had previously owned. Won the auction and got the 'new sealed' set for half the current retail.
Buoyed up by this I nosed around some other sites, ending up on HMV online. Stone me they had a 3 disc Dylan set which filled in much of Dylans middle years with some other bits and bobs. So I bought that one as well at the astonishing price of £7.99 inc postage.
The two albums arrived on the same day and here I show how to do a boxed set and how to fuck it up.
Pic. 1. The two boxed sets.
But something was not right. The Clapton set seemed to have shrunk 'in the wash'. I remember the box as twice the height of a std CD, but this wasn't.
Pic. 2.
So what has occured? Well I can only assume this is some misguided fool's attempt to save valuable rescources as the e situation is that two discs sit one on top of each other, not with some hinged, flip over gizmo to seperate them. Just on top of each other. Now it is possible with fingernails and extreme care to get the lower disc out without having to take the top one out, but I'd not risk it, see pic
Pic. 3.
To paraphrase 'Nigella'
JUST HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT?
The Dylan compiler however knows what he is about. For less than the price of three pints you get all this:
Pic4.
A cloth covered box, three individual CD's, booklet and some silly collecting cards.Detail is such that each CD is done like an old 45 that has gone through the same wash cycle as the Clapon set, complete with grooves.
Pic5.
AND, yes there's more, AND, just to make things really easy, they've put a little piece of ribbon so that you can extricate the CD's from the box without breaking your carefully manicured nails.
Pic6.
My hat is off to the boys at Colombia/SonyBmg and my finger is up to the tossers at Polydor/Phonogram.
Dennypoos......................soon to be birthday boy.