Early Bird?

[superval99]

Thank you Jeroen for your help!      

[superval99]

I really hope we will be able to eventually download this track as a single, because it seems terrible to have to download the whole album for just one track, when we have already bought the album - some people the box-set!  It's becoming more of a rip-off every day! 

[ds1984]

Boycott i-tune!

[dustyvalentino]

Boycott i-tune!

It's getting to the stage where I want to say "boycott MK". 

It pains me to say it, as he's always been so good with the fans in the past and avoided these sort of cash-ins, but with this and the box set, well, it's very disappointing.

[Love Expresso]

I am with you here, Dusty. I already wrote a "pissed" mail to Guy, and although I think I know his answer already (ridiculous / that

[dustyvalentino]

Kind of wierd that they are happy for us to pay

[ds1984]

Boycott i-tune!

It's getting to the stage where I want to say "boycott MK". 

It is weird and I wished I would not write that but in all honesty I though "boycott GL". I definitively will happily attend his 2010 show but feeling being somewhat ripped-off when buying the CD... So I will wait for a budget 2CD edition, the standard GL album and the extra disc with all the rest on it 

[pjh3121]

The whole GL format thing seems like a mess. The vast majority of people are interested in the three, or now four, extra tracks and not the collection of largely useless stocking fillers that fill up the hideously overpriced 'Deluxe Box Set'. It's shocking that this fourth track that's just turned up, Early Bird, is not even in the box set. So, even those shelling out for the box set don't get the full album.  

They should have just had two versions - the 11 track regular CD and a second limited version containing the DVD and the four tracks for around

[Rollergirl]

They are indeed making it very complicated.  but the bottom line nobody is forcing anyone to shed 100s of pounds. I was gonna buy the box but I had to spend the money to get my car through its MOT instead, so I won't buy it.

Buy it if you can afford it, if you can't, don't, simple as that.

I am sure those extra bits and pieces will be available in the future, somehow....

[pjh3121]

They are indeed making it very complicated.   but the bottom line nobody is forcing anyone to shed 100s of pounds. I was gonna buy the box but I had to spend the money to get my car through its MOT instead, so I won't buy it.

Buy it if you can afford it, if you can't, don't, simple as that.

I am sure those extra bits and pieces will be available in the future, somehow....

It's not a matter of being able to afford it or not, it's the principle. I can afford it, but don't see why I should spend

[ustas]

I think it is record label's trick after GL record was stolen and placed on torrents. So people who got digital album before release (for free) have a chance to pay a money.

Also, this song should be b-side on any single from GL if it is released as CD.

[dustyvalentino]

They are indeed making it very complicated.  but the bottom line nobody is forcing anyone to shed 100s of pounds. I was gonna buy the box but I had to spend the money to get my car through its MOT instead, so I won't buy it.

Buy it if you can afford it, if you can't, don't, simple as that.

I am sure those extra bits and pieces will be available in the future, somehow....

Sorry, I agree with pjh here. Nobody forced me to buy the singles of Calling Elvis, Heavy Fuel, Darling Pretty, Cannibals or What It Is either, but I was happy to do so as I thought that a few pounds was a reasonable price to pay for the extra tracks.

But the prices for the extra tracks this time are WAY over the top. Approx

[dustyvalentino]

I think it is record label's trick after GL record was stolen and placed on torrents. So people who got digital album before release (for free) have a chance to pay a money.

Sorry, I don't believe this at all. These things don't just happen overnight. MK has to have the track mixed/mastered etc etc and this will have happened ages ago.

In any case, even if it IS true it is a completely futile and pointless gesture as I have absolutely no doubt that the four extra tracks will be available for illegal download on the same site that made Get Lucky available.

[pjh3121]

^ yep.

And now to add insult to injury it turns out that even if you do shell out 80 quid for the box set, you're not even getting all of the commercially available tracks. Pretty poor all round, I think.

There really should be a cheaper option for those who don't want to pay the best part of 100 quid for the four tracks.

[Rollergirl]

I can afford it, but don't see why I should spend