Here's how I see it.
This Greatest Hits package will fulfill their contract with Warner/Reprise. They'll be able to shop their new album to the highest bidder. OR, they owe Reprise two albums and these two will fulfill their contract in one fell swoop.
The Greatest Hits package will be a rehash of the hits we've bought over & over again, BUT, will have two NEW (read: previously unreleased) Christine McVie tunes (since she's retired), as a "farewell"...and maybe one or two of the "GoS" tunes that the whole band played on ("Steal Your Heart Away"??? "Twist of Fate"??? or ???) as the obligatory "new material" to force the Fleetwood Mac "completists" (like me, and almost everyone else here) into buying the set against our better judgement.
(Thank GOD for the invention of the CD burner...we can burn all the "bonus" tunes onto a disc and trade in to a used CD store the original GH disc....unless the booklet is worth anything.)
I still don't see Reprise EVER releasing "Gift of Screws" as a unit. And, ESPECIALLY not coinciding with the new Fleetwood Mac album. BUT, if this new Fleetwood Mac album is a two-disc set, the possibility of disc 1 being the new Mac album with disc 2 being a completed "Gift Of Screws". (sort of how they, back in 1970, were going to originally release "Then Play On"...with the band album disc 1 and Jeremy Spencer's solo album as disc 2...of course, back then, "disc" meaning "LP")
It just pisses me off that this band is "feast or famine"...they either inundate us with product all at once, or leave us high & dry for decades at a time. I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!! (but, I'll be in line at some record store or purchasing on-line any product that comes out from them, and that in itself just pisses me off even more!)
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