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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals

By Paul Sinclair

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Ultravox / Vienna 40th anniversary 5CD+DVD box set

Ultravox / Vienna 40th anniversary 5CD+DVD box set

DE: Ultravox / Vienna 5CD+DVD deluxe – £39.99 £59.99

Fantastic Vienna deluxe edition features Steven Wilson stereo and 5.1 surround mixes; rarities, B-sides and 12-inch mixes; cassette rehearsals; Live from St Albans 1980 and more! Superb price. UK DEAL IS OVER but it’s a similar price in GERMANY, so the German deal now supersedes the UK one!



GERMANY: Paul McCartney / The Lyrics – £45

If £65 or £75 is more than you want to pay for Paul McCartney‘s newly announced 960-page book The Lyrics, then Amazon in Germany have this two-volume set for just £48. And before you ask, this is the ENGLISH version and if you are in the UK there is no Brexit-related import fees to concern yourself with! (shipping to UK is £3).

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  2. Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound of Thunder 2CD+blu-ray+DVD deluxe box set is currently £30.04 at Amazon UK which (I think) is a good bit cheaper than when initially released.

  3. Beyond any expectations of it turning up (I used PayPal in case I needed to try to recover the funds), I bought the REM Monster 5CD/Blu Ray box set from Fishpond.co.uk for £33 (that’s including postage and no customs) about 3 weeks ago and it was just delivered earlier today all the way from Australia. At least £20 cheaper than I’ve seen it anywhere since release. Think that company has a bad rep but I can’t fault them on this one.

  10. Well I bought the ultravox box set from a retailer shop in Greece for 39 euros. They had discount days and have some odd box sets at very good price : blancmagne box for 39 euros, heaven 17 – play to win box for 79 euros, simple minds – rejuvenation for 39 euros etc. How odd for this shop to have these box sets at THESE prices. How lucky am I?

  12. On Amazon’s US site, Elton John’s “Jewel Box” (8CD Super Deluxe Edition) is currently $83, which is the lowest price I’ve seen for this set since it was released.

  14. Maximo Park’s enjoyable new album Nature Always Wins, out last Friday, is £4.99 on Amazon UK. They’re no. 1 in the mid week chart, according to an email from them yesterday, and doing their best, without a Macca budget, to hit the top of the pops.

    https://amzn.to/3bXhzf7

  18. Thanks for the heads-up on the ‘Vienna’ box-set, Paul. With a £15 Amazon voucher from my birthday too that’s a no-brainer for me now.

    1. This is another deal that Amazon is geoblocking for non-UK residents. When I sign in with my delivery details to Texas, the site says: “Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.” But when I log out and use a UK postcode, the deal appears.

  20. After a discussion on here a month or two ago about experiences of SDE readers from rarewaves.com, (my experience was always good) has anyone in the UK ordered from them post Brexit please? The items usually took a while to arrive but had a look like they’d come from the within UK (even when it said from USA on ebay location) and didn’t get an extra customs charge. Just wondered if things have now changed post Brexit?

    1. I ordered something just before new year, delivery took a few weeks and the item (Abbey Road super-deluxe) was only packaged in a thin polythene mailer (by some miracle it wasn’t trashed in the post). Seems like it came from within UK. I think I’ll only use them again if it’s an unmissable bargain.

    2. Regarding Rarewaves, I ordered a Black Sabbath 1st album CD superdeluxe set in January with a superb price (34 € delivered) Apparently it was the 40th anniversary edition but I actually received the 50th anniversary set. Took long to arrive but no customs charges (to Spain) either. Package was thin but the item was in good condition. I have ordered Black Sabbath new Vol 4 cd superdeluxe but still have not received it. Cheers

    3. Missed that discussion – live in London, I ordered from them via amazon in early December, LP never came, contacted them and they sent a replacement that came quickly. Had a similar issue with RoundmediaUK – which seemed to originate in Canada. Again, I contacted them and the item arrived. Annoyingly my seeds of love box from Amazon UK is missing but I’ve got to wait until Friday before a refund/reorder

  21. Just to update on a previous thread, my Amazon UK John Prine order of Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971-1980), placed on 5 Feb at the bargain price of £26.73 was delivered today… Delighted given some scepticism that these orders would be honoured at that price.

  24. Roxy’s first LP remixed by Steven Wilson on Clear Vinyl for RSD last year under £20 on Amazon UK (down 35%). Was just listening to the original today!

  30. This American buyer is happy – not necessarily for the slight savings (as of the current exchange rate) but for the much better slipcase presentation.

  33. Thanks Paul! That saved me well over a tenner – I cancelled my amazon.uk order and re-ordered on amazon.de

    What Macca lacks in lyrical skill he has always made up for with his stunning melodies, arrangements and vocal panache. It will be interesting to study the lyrics apart from the music. He’s always had the reputation of being a lazy lyricist but I suspect they might be better than I expect even though he’s not a man to move me with his words generally with a few notable exceptions – “Yesterday”, “Lonely Old People” and… wait for it… “Mull of Kintyre” which I’ve always loved (I know half of it was Denny Laine’s work of course.)

    I have every recording he’s put out and countless boots so it will be impossible not to hear the tunes in my head as I read them which might skew my appreciation. I will always remember my 11-year-old self in 1978 reading the paperback Beatles Lyrics book (the one with the introduction by the vile Mr Savile) long before I had more than a handful of their recordings. I entertained myself by imagining the tunes to the likes of “Mean Mr Mustard”, “Golden Slumbers” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun” which was thrilling. Perhaps that’s why I now make a living as a professional songwriter! I owe Macca so much…

    1. They were not that good though which is why they stopped soon after they started. Much greater bands like the Rolling Stones continue to make music up to this day and have one of the top selling physical singles last year.

  36. Thanks For the Paul. Definitely a great price.
    Had to make sure I didn’t inadvertently sign up for Amazon Prime on the German site (they make it way too easy to sign up without thinking), something to watch out for if anyone out there is planning to grab the deal.

    Thanks again!

      1. or is it? there are probably 500 pieces of paper in the book(s).

        actually this is one of my pet peeves within english – the word ‘page’ normally means one side of a piece of paper within a book, but it also means a single piece of paper itself (i.e., “rip a page out of a book”) even though it contains 2 pages. and you can’t separate one page from the other without creating 2 more pages in the process. plus blank pages are still pages, even though they aren’t counted in the length of a book, unless it says “this page intentionally left blank”, which of course is a lie since it isn’t blank.

        1. It’s 960 printed pages. I think everyone understands that. If a book you read is 300-pages, it’s not 300-sheets of paper…

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