I fear so, I didn't think it would but when I realized yesterday that I haven't listened to it in a good 3 weeks, I think it may have to do with me not particularly being in a Prince mood these days, but also most likely with the fact that I was familiar with 90% of the material. I love All My Dreams with all my heart, but I've had this song for 29 years...

This doesn't mean I won't revisit the set, I will of course, or that I regret listening to the boots, I'm glad I did, but yeah, it wasn't as exciting as it would if I got 3 CDs of studio material and 2 live shows I've never ever heard in any form or shape.

Partly. The excitment of hearing uncirculating songs was huge, hearing songs I was already aware of, roughly 70%, was still good but not the same. It's just nice to have them in good quality. I've had to take a SOTT break as it started to get overwhelming with the huge number of songs to wade through.

databank said:

I fear so, I didn't think it would but when I realized yesterday that I haven't listened to it in a good 3 weeks, I think it may have to do with me not particularly being in a Prince mood these days, but also most likely with the fact that I was familiar with 90% of the material. I love All My Dreams with all my heart, but I've had this song for 29 years...

This doesn't mean I won't revisit the set, I will of course, or that I regret listening to the boots, I'm glad I did, but yeah, it wasn't as exciting as it would if I got 3 CDs of studio material and 2 live shows I've never ever heard in any form or shape.

Co-sign and fullly agree, and I'm already afraid Parade SDE will be even more frustrating in this sense whenever it comes out.

Still, I don't regret a single effort to obtain boots back in the day. In fact I still love to keep an eye on that market for the odd thing here and there: studio, live, rehearsal, whatever.

RODSERLING said:

II never understood the pleasure there was in listening Prince bootlegs in mostly poor quality.

.

Did you ever understand parts of the music?

If you did, what made the low fidelity matter?

.

With so much material being released officially, you have to have a huge appetite to stand all this and nevertheless try to find again more songs in a poor quality. .

.

Perhaps we need to define 'poor' to be sure.

.

For me there is way too much material on SOTT deluxe. I would rather have 1 or 2 discs of the best unreleased tracks, make it more accessible price-wise, and sell it more. Frankly, half of the tracks were absolutely dispensable, and I didn't need to hear them or to know they even existed.

.

If one can't keep up, please step aside.

At 42, the excitement I get from listening to new music is not the same as when I was a teenager, for multiple reasons: hormones (mainly), but also because my brain hadn't already been exposed to so much music back then. So I don't regret having heard all those outtakes back then instead of now.

RODSERLING said:

udo said:

RODSERLING said:

But that excess of new dispensable material prevented most of the fans to buy it. So what s the point in making that relase more of a niche it already was.

.

B00tleggars sell the discs of a set separately...

I gues guess one has to wait for prices yo come down if you think that 'most fans' lack funds in your area.

SexyMuthaF said:

Yes in a way it did. New music ain't new if you already heard it no matter how much better the quality might be or if it's a different version.

.

You'll never experience the same feelings because of new music like when you were in 1987.

We're adults now, most of us behave that way.

SexyMuthaF said:

True dat age might have something to do with it. But I still had the juices flowing when I got sott sde.

.

I saw the product as what I described multiple times.

A company bringing us a flawed product among other flawed releases.

Their way of doing the SDE thing really spoils things in a big way.

Same as Tudahl doing an update release as a softcover.

Complete foolishness on all sides.

udo said:

RODSERLING said:

udo said:

.

B00tleggars sell the discs of a set separately...

I gues guess one has to wait for prices yo come down if you think that 'most fans' lack funds in your area.

In my area? A large part of orgers here didn't buy it, and chose instead to stream it. I think it should have been priced under 100$.

.

The book made it expen$ive. (non-standard versus run-of-the mill CD's)