Better Choices For LIB CD?

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by CarneVaca

Well, folks, fear not.

Rest assured that at least some of other Live in Boston tracks will be released commercially in a way to maximize profits.

Already, four more songs -- Say You Will, Gold Dust Woman, Never Going Back, and Don't Stop -- are available for download from iTunes as an EP. You may buy the songs individually for 99 cents apiece or as an EP for $3.96. The EP is titled Selections from Live in Boston, Vol. 1. Presumably there would be a Vol. 2 and perhaps more. I don't know if the exclusive arrangement with iTunes covers only a limited time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this stuff show up in CD form in stores at some point.

So, you see, you may get your wish of having all these songs in audio format mixed professionally. You'll just have to keep paying for them.

Originally Posted by dissention

Fleetwood Mac never fails to do exactly what I expect them to.

I downloaded all the songs and burned them onto a couple CDs, I don't need to buy 'em. Surely the band and the record company knew people would rip the tracks from the DVD before buying them separately.

I guess i'm not quite sure what the problem is.
Whether they released the 'Live In Boston' set as a 2-DVD/2-Audio CD package (which they would have needed to do, in order to include all of the songs), or if they released a second CD separately, you'd still have to pay one way or the other.

'LIB' most assuredly would have cost more if they had released it in the first format I mentioned. As it is, people were already complaining about the price.

I think it's cool that they're offering the additional songs on iTunes. After all, no one is forced to buy them, but it's definitely nice to have the option, right?
And again, you would have had to pay extra for a 2-CD set anyway, even if it had been included from the outset.

My only complaint about the CD that came with the package, was that it was a mere 10-tracks. They could have fit about 17 or 18 on there. But even at that, there's no way they could have included every favorite song of every fan on one disc... some way, some how, someone is always bound to be disappointed.