Take this with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that
Neil Young's long (long) awaited
Archives release on Blu-ray is back on track. Last we heard, the 10-disc set was shakily headed for a
February release date, but given that it's March, we'd say that obviously didn't pan out. Down at South by Southwest in Austin, Young's manager Elliot Roberts was quoted as saying that the collection will now be released on June 2nd.
Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972 will include 128 audio tracks (43 unreleased and 13 never-before-heard) along with thousands of images, lyrics, letters and memorabilia. The rough news is that the Blu-ray edition will run fans a shocking $299 while the DVD set goes for $199 and the CD version for $99. Better start saving up now -- worst case scenario, the June date will get bumped and you'll have three bills to blow on cheeseburgers and cookies.
posted Mar 22nd 2009 7:57PM
Someone needs to tell "Ol' Neil" that he's out of his mind with those ridiculous prices. You've got to be out of your mind to expect people to pay that much for any artist's collection, I don't care how thorough they may think it is.
Neil Young is so bad that people think he's good.
Kinda like Tom Waite. It's hip to like them, like Johnny Cash.
You obviously do not know your music my friend.
I agree that it's too expensive. But even more troubling is the complete lack of specs. If we only get 24/48, that's not an upgrade from CD.
The whole point is to preserve his music in a high-end format. I am hoping for 192khz. Which strikes me as totally possible given the number of Blu-rays involved.
-Pie
Yes, it's 24/192. See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9937142-80.html for a video of him presenting the project last year.
$299, give us a break, that's ridiculous!