Here Snood take
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This is not gonna stick with everyone cus not everyone likes this or that artist, but as serious surround fans and mooooooooost of us are into progressive tunage tooooooo(Snood was not at one time :yikes)... got into surround because of Better than Ezra (of all things) then Fleetwood Mac Rumours - then Eagles Hotel California........in that order... and now you peeps have me into all sorts of awesome weird stuff
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Yes we are a niche market.......sustainable yes (but barely), at a cost which sometimes yeah we have to grin and bear it with the inclusive box sets. Some great, some not so great........would a separate BD release be awesome, YES, but it would incur morrrrrrre cost for the machine? YEEEEEES and probably at a loss
The idea of a lot of the Super deluxe thingys is to throw the whole shibang at the fans and let them go WOW and sometimes, not so WOW or worse..........not everybody is gonna be happy and the completeist fan will always wonder why the track 5 from down the hall in the bathroom stall 4 of the nearest pub with a mic stuck up the leader singer's arse is not included
@: - Snood always wanted that one!!
Well how does Steven Wilson or Jethro or XTC do it and this or that??........licensing, contracts, etc and having his own this or that.......somehow the weigh scales tip in their favor. Which is good. :banana:
But then us surround fans start saying, wait how much is too much in their favor??
When we should be asking ourselves how much should we be asking of them to support such a niche (albeit awesome) market as us awesome surround fanatics? This is not a gimme here folks, this is them saying ummm hey yeah we can put out the box without a 5.1, but man we have some rare rabid fans that do love it, so lets add it to the stew............along with LPs for those fans too.
We should feel lucky in a lot of ways that the 5.1 was even a thought, let alone Steven Wilson mixing it and that opening the door to more depending on perhaps the sales.
Look, Snood feels your pain for those that can not afford it - there has been a few box sets that the need vs price were not there and Snood did not get..........still look at them and go nah....just not a big enough fan.
Snood do think on this thing - they tried to please everybody and yes no separate BD sucks...........but looking at the releases...........we are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind the cd or LP releases........those will sell good..........and yeah maybe there is enough Rush 5.1 fans to sell the single BD release or.........
Based on the BD sales of the previous 3 BD releases they probably said ummmmmmm nah not worth it............but we will throw them a big ass bone in good faith with the inclusion of a SW 5.1 mix, not as a carrot but as a wink and a thank you to us :banana:
Not many Box sets with 5.1 do Snood get super duper excited about cept Mac, XTC (not box really) or Roxy...........but put in perspective of the possibility of even more SW Rush 5.1 releases compared to the
ones we have.
RUSH, hey buddies release them ALLLLLLLL in SUPER DUPER BOXES LIKE THIS WITH STEVEN WILSON 5.1 NOOOOOOOOOOOW PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE (Sorry caps Snood just too excited)- Thank you for the music and just even thinking of us Surround fans . Thank you and please keep them coming :snoodhug:
WTF is my freaking emoji JON?? (Inside Joke)
Snood rant over :bounce17