Can be great. McFly released a CD+DVD version of an album for practically the same price. Think it was about a fiver!

 

Would never pay £20 for a bit of extra cardboard though. Pathetic.

Do not understand why so many people are so against deluxe editions, if you dont want one dont buy it, if people want the deluxe buy it, surely its simple. :unsure:

It gives an artist a chance to re-launch an album with a new lead single and expand a fanbase for an artist. I personally think its a good idea.

Edited November 17, 201014 yr by Peace

I like deluxe editions, they're pretty. :D

 

There IS this :)

 

I do like 'em, of course, but they do usually cost too much.

 

The only ones which cost loads and loads but are worth it are the huge boxsets with records/cds/books/USBs in - like Portishead's and the Stone Roses reissue, and even then I think over £50 is too steep.

There IS this :)

 

I do like 'em, of course, but they do usually cost too much.

 

The only ones which cost loads and loads but are worth it are the huge boxsets with records/cds/books/USBs in - like Portishead's and the Stone Roses reissue, and even then I think over £50 is too steep.

 

The Portishead one was lovely, the USB and etched vinyls were a treat. I went for the middle option on the Stone Roses one as the largest one was ridiculously expensive, the £20(ish) one is packaged beautifully, it actually exceeded my expectations... even better for late buyers as I've seen it as cheap as £5 since!

 

I guess it depends on whether you see the music and package as being akin to a piece of art or instead a disposable thing that you will never take the time to enjoy - if it's the latter then I completely get why you would never consider anything above the bare minimum cost.

The Portishead one was lovely, the USB and etched vinyls were a treat. I went for the middle option on the Stone Roses one as the largest one was ridiculously expensive, the £20(ish) one is packaged beautifully, it actually exceeded my expectations... even better for late buyers as I've seen it as cheap as £5 since!

 

I guess it depends on whether you see the music and package as being akin to a piece of art or instead a disposable thing that you will never take the time to enjoy - if it's the latter then I completely get why you would never consider anything above the bare minimum cost.

 

Agreed! I infinitely prefer the physical album over download albums - and if there's a choice between a £10 regular and £20 deluxe edition I...tend to wait until massive reductions work in my favour :)

 

And totally agree with the Stone Roses packages - especially since I'm a 'late buyer' of it myself!!! Have seen it for £40+ in HMV stores though :o

I'm horrified by this attitude, especially for a board that is largely populated by gay men. I mean, it's like choosing to wear Primark over Diesel.

I've never been in a Primark or s Diesel shop :mellow:

I don't mind buying a deluxe edition of an album for extra tracks but would never buy one simply for different packaging. Its a waste of money and another way of record companies creaming it.

I am very much pro-Deluxe editions. Sometimes i repurchase the album to get the bonus tracks [Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You & Gaga Fame Monster] some times i shun it [Wino - Back To Black] it entirely depends on what i thought of the original album [Gaga = Good, therefore willing to have a 2nd copy to get the Fame Monster as her track record thus far is promising] or if i loon for said artist [Lily, Sugababes - I have 3 copies of Taller In More Ways. The Mutya Version, the EU variation of the Mutya Version and the Amelle version [and 2 copies of the promo] and i have 2 copies of the utterly sublime 3 despite there being no difference in the actual album at all (One for car, one for collection)]

 

I didn't think much of Back To Black so i ignored the rerelease. However the reverse applies. I only bought I Am... after it's 8000th rerelease [i have the Deluxe edition] and was enticed by the quality of her singles. [sweet Dreams won me over]

 

I think in the age of declining record sales they are a good way of replacing some of the lost revenue [which you want if you want to keep hearing new music from your favourite artist] and keeping interest in an artist or injecting new life into an album that has been a complete flop for strange reasons [Di Vickers]

It seriously pees me off when an artist re-releases an album months after I've bought it with a couple of bonus tracks, although I may later on buy that edition when it majorly comes down in price if I'm a big enough fan of the act in question, I just think it's greedy and awful on the record company's behalf.

 

Re-releases like Lady GaGa's are worthy, although I wish like in the US there was an option to buy the second disc of The Fame Monster EP seperately, I definitely would've got that.

Edited November 18, 201014 yr by Silver Rocket

I'd bought Leona's Spirit but wasn't prepared to pay around £8.99 for the Deluxe. Then got it for £2 the day Woolworths closed down!

Re-releases like Lady GaGa's are worthy, although I wish like in the US there was an option to buy the second disc of The Fame Monster EP seperately, I definitely would've got that.

 

 

You could get just the new disc separately from CD Wow. Think I paid. £5.99

I don't mind buying deluxe editions if they are sort of anniversary editions.

 

For example "Faith" by George Michael is re-issued after 24 years. The tracks are remastered and there is also a disk with Faith interviews + all Faith videos.

I think it's worth purchasing.

But for the albums that were released six months before the deluxe edition, it is very pointless.

I'm horrified by this attitude, especially for a board that is largely populated by gay men. I mean, it's like choosing to wear Primark over Diesel.

I definitely prefer Primark, my favourite clothes shop.

There is nothing worse than posh attitude and I have no idea why you generalise all the gay guys as such.

I'm not a fan of deluxe editions either.

If you've bought the original and the deluxe edition is the type that adds only a few tracks, and you're complaining about the price, then cherry pick the few extra tracks on iTunes! :confused:

I don't often buy Deluxe editions of albums, only if they are released at the same time as the standard edition, so we have a choice, and have nice extras.

 

Take Flamingo by Brandon Flowers for example. The deluxe version has 4 extra tracks, a nicer CD case, better album cover and a double-sided poster.

I payed an extra £4 for that, well worth it.

 

Re-releasing relatively recent albums (Spirit, Overcome for example) is totally bonkers too. Only older, harder to come by albums should be re-released.

Dannii Minogue's studio albums got repackaged with loads of extras and were the same price as most other albums, perfection :D

 

It also depends on where you buy them, HMV are so random with pricing.

I don't often buy Deluxe editions of albums, only if they are released at the same time as the standard edition, so we have a choice, and have nice extras.

 

Take Flamingo by Brandon Flowers for example. The deluxe version has 4 extra tracks, a nicer CD case, better album cover and a double-sided poster.

I payed an extra £4 for that, well worth it.

 

Re-releasing relatively recent albums (Spirit, Overcome for example) is totally bonkers too. Only older, harder to come by albums should be re-released.

Dannii Minogue's studio albums got repackaged with loads of extras and were the same price as most other albums, perfection :D

 

It also depends on where you buy them, HMV are so random with pricing.

HMV pricing in store of deluxes can be a real disgrace. Usually £16-18 for some of the most undeserving. It seemed they were typically £16 when they started to get popular but came down to more like £13 a while after (possibly backlash) but this year have went back up and more and more seem to be £18. Kylie's Aphrodite was this, with a DVD with around an hour of video and not a single extra song. It seems outrageous it was double the price for not double the content. Surely we should be rewarded by an attractive price for buying more not punished (as "oh they're desperate for it, they'll pay anything").

 

Its a real problem as supermarkets often don't stock the deluxe so there's no competition on the high street. Digital deluxes (try as iTunes might with digibooklets etc) just don't make sense to me as part of the point of the deluxe is the great quality packaging, booklet, and other possible extras (e.g. posters) and a digital album already feels like a cheap alternative. (Despite that on iTunes you still get an extra song not included on the more expensive physical deluxe :angry: )

 

In terms of the Brandon one that pisses me off a bit as the original is only a 10track, and the other 4 songs are clearly good enough for inclusion so i actually feel the opposite to you. If these songs were ready and deemed good enough for inclusion why do i have to pay more than the cost of a normal album to get the whole thing? (or only get 70% of it for a normal album price). It's different if they were recorded and released later to re-promote the album but if they're ready why not give them to everyone? They're not even on a separate disc ffs! And in what sense is the cover "better" btw? Is it because its closer up to Brandon in that shot? :naughty:

 

I'm Gay, & I thought that Primark was a brand of tinned Ham,

and Diesel was a type of Petrol!

I willl only buy a deluxe edition if im a die hard fan. Or if it has 5 or 6 extra songs on.

Leona Lewis's Spirit deluxe has been the best i have brought.

It is best if the artist releases the normal version and deluxe at the same time, then at least the choice is there. I have the deluxe version of Tori Amos's abnormally attracted to sin, but only brought the regular version of her midwinter graces album. Had the deluxe version of abnormally attracted to sin been released after the normal cd i'd have probably ended up buying both and the normal version being redundant.

 

 

If you've bought the original and the deluxe edition is the type that adds only a few tracks, and you're complaining about the price, then cherry pick the few extra tracks on iTunes! :confused:

 

 

What if like me you don't know how to download?