Jam box flop leads to price drop

For anyone not too interested in the demos, I find this ‘earbook’ the best purchase:
The Jam: Direction, Reaction, Creation
5cds including their full album discography and a huge hardbound book with many fotos, gig list, band chronology, liner notes etc.
Great value for money, it is listed at around 15 GBP on amazon.co.uk or around 20 Euros on amazon.de
Look for the ISBN code: 978-3937406855, listed under books

There’s also a Thin Lizzy earbook, even cheaper (15 EUR on amazon.de, 15 GBP amazon.co.uk):
Thin Lizzy. Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels
I do like both of these.

There are more of this series, all good value, from Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, etc

I don’t think Mr. Weller has anything to do with the pricing policy!

I think Universal saw The Gift super deluxe box set sold quite well at £75 to a loyal Jam following.

Thinking that Setting Sons is the music critics favourite album it should sell well so sell it for £80. That’s the original price at the Universal website, only Amazon had it on sale for £95.

The same pricing policy has been used by Univsersal on the three Who box sets but at least two of them included a 5.1 surround sound DVD.

I, like many others didn’t think much of the pricing policy especially when I’m more about the music than the memorabilia. I’d rather see a box set like Tears For Fears’s Big Chair which for £30 included 5 CD’s + DVD.

As for the music, at least the remastering is better sounding than the Gift and Sound Affects which lacked umpth and the kicking bass sound of Bruce Foxton which drove the Jam sound.

The Super Deluxe does have a different live concert from Brighton to the Deluxe version though now I’ve read the previously issued Rainbow concert is better sounding on the new Deluxe version.

I don’t mind the inclusion of the DVD though it could have included a bit more. The second appearance on TOTP performing ‘Going Underground’ from New Years Day is missing with Weller using his pop-art rickenbacker.

Hopefully, when ‘In The City’ is remastered, it’ll include the complete 100 club gig as a bonus CD and all the footage from Wolfgang Büld, who filmed the gig. I’m sure there’s outtakes that have never been released.

Even living in Italy, with free shipping, and as much of a Jam fan I am, €80 is insanely expensive for this set’s value.

Be honest. Once you’ve seen the DVD once or twice, do you watch it as often as you listen to the CDs? And which CD out of this set do you reach for most often? I bet it’s the original album. The demos and live stuff are nice but if they were that good, they would have been on the album.

The record companies are just exploiting the fans who buy the same music multiple times. Fewer and fewer of us will buy this stuff, which means that the cost of putting it together is spread over fewer people. I’m sure this is a lovely package of a really good album, but at around £40 it’s not something that I need.

The other super deluxe box – The Gift – is nearly £100. Crazy.

I decided against buying it because it’s just not worth the price. I have the Jam 3 disc DVD Complete Jam so I don’t need the DVD in this set. It doesn’t come with the vinyl edition and all of the B-sides have been released before. So a large amount of money for a disc of demos and a book, no thanks. I would have bought the two disc edition if they had made the second disc the demos but they strategically saved those for the box. Some of these album box sets are great and I like the trend but not every album has enough unreleased content for it to be worth it, this one being a prime example. The only thing that could have made this box more enticing outside of the vinyl inclusion would have been a 5.1 mix but that didn’t happen either. if this was priced at $50 US or less I would recommend it to a fan, otherwise no way.

John O’Connor

Yes, it’s been at this discount price for several weeks now at the store you mention along with some other great bargains.

My pickups have been

Dire straits Vinyl for £6 (x3)
Jam Vinyl £6 each (x4)
Ian Brown Collected set £150 down to £50
Guns N Roses Illusions 1+2 Vinyl £10 each
Elton John – Yellow Brick Road – £9
Deep Purple Live vinyl – £8

There’s loads of other bargains on there.

The REM recent vinyl singles set for £40.
Rainbow – The Polydor Vinyl set – £105 down to £50
The Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat – 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition LP – £10
Rod Stewart Vinyl box – £35
Nirvana: In Utero – 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Boxset – £35
Amy Winehouse: Amy Winehouse At The BBC – Deluxe Package – £10

Take a look around

They keep changing the stock around from time to time and every order I’ve placed has all been spot on so far, they key is to buy a few pieces and consolidate on your shipping and you’re laughing all the way to the bank.

You gotta be quick though. :)

John – Thank you great link

35 quid plus 7 to ship to a UK address – not too shabby at 42 pounds all in. Lucky I am coming over for The League Cup Final in a couple of weeks
COYS

Thanks again

Good news for those who want to buy this really well-done box. A bit of a hit in the face for all those who bought it for the original price (yes, like myself) and thought the box was worth it. The new price for this lavish set is ridiculous compared to a lot of other box sets in that price range. Anyway, you better grab a copy now!

But why was it £90+ in the first place? When, for instance, the Manics ‘Holy Bible’ box was only £50. Would this price come from Mr Weller himself?

Whoops! Here’s the link: https://greatofferstore.com/*/Boxset-Offers/Setting-Sons-Super-Deluxe-Edition/3J2F04AZ000

Universal have been selling this through Great Offer Store at £35 (unsure of P&P) for about a week or more – if you are looking for a UK dispatch. I bought 4 Jam vinyl LP’s last November, at £6 each – plus £7 for P&P.

Well despite my own personal lack of judgement in going against my instinct and shelling out at £75, I think this is great news, firstly for anyone who wants to buy at this point it is a very nice set and at the right price now. Secondly hopefully Universal wont try anything so greedy and foolish with future releases. I can hope at least.