Alchemy DVD and Blue ray is remixed in surround 5.1, so I really don't get the SACD stereo reissue. As a matter of fact I understand why they do it, (Money money money mOney!) but I wonder why the artists don't see that their fans are taken for a ride to the bank, to cash their desires. Neil Young and many other issue their NEW albums as 5.1 surround DVD and audio CD combo, for a regular price and vinyl replica cover! I will pass this time, since there are no extras or even 5.1 that any way I am unable to listen to and enjoy. And anyway I have heard of the albums so many times (let alone buy them several times over) that I don't know if it is worth it. I guess Guy would answer the same way he replied about Get Lucky deluxe 100 pounds: "Bargain". Any thoughts on the matter, other than "if you don't like, don't buy?" I come to wonder lately, about the "extra" song in the compilations of my favourite artists. If the compilations were intended for the general population, and not just the fans, there wouldn't be any extra tracks. But it seems that the fans are a considerable part of the consuming force even for compilations.
Now that the world has only 3 major record companies that amount to the 90% of the whole music "business" and Universal is one of them, such stands will become more regular. We were used to such things from Pink Floyd that have not actually produced any new music over two decades, or Led Zeppelin or whoever, but at least their overpriced-repackaged product has bits of extras. Not much for the price we are expected to pay or for the quality of the extras, but it is a nice way to say rip off and keeping pretensions at the same time. For the sake of music, why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, meaning the buying audience, forcing them to download music, legally or otherwise.
