I don't want all the junk that the marketing doofuses think will fool people into thinking they're getting something special by purchasing the box set either. I hate all that stuff (fancy cardboard box, pictures, booklets, marbles, scarves). All I want is the tunes, in the highest fidelity available and in surround where possible, thank you very much ("It used to be about the music, man!").
While I agree with Clint Eastwood in that keeping it simple is a great way for us to buy these albums (often for the umpteenth time) at a decent price, there's so much room on a BD, it's a wasted opportunity to not include everything from the release of that album's era on it. Doing so would make each BD release a little time capsule that the fans could purchase and know that they have everything from that particular era. If we were just charged an extra $10 per BD, that's not too much more to pay when you consider how much we've all paid for our hardware.
I realise that not everyone wants all of the music from a particular era but even if it is there, it doesn't need to be listened to. I don't particularly care for demos and live tracks. I've only listened to the needle-drops on the Yes BD's once or twice but they're there if I choose to check them out in future (and I'm pretty sure I will). It's not like having the music on the disc is taking up any extra space in our cabinets like the box sets do - it's just using the space that we've already bought. Just as an aside. in terms of B-sides, I was thinking more of Cure B-sides which, as Cure fans know, are often better than the album tracks. Imagine how much of a definitive edition a Disintegration BD would be if it included the album, single mixes, extended mixes, the demos from the recent 3CD reissue and Entreat? It'd freakin' rule to have all of that on the one disc, especially if it was in surround also. It'd be just like all the extras on XTC's Drums and Wires BD - tons of tunes on one disc.
The non-album tracks on Reckless are a perfect example of someone finally using the space available. We get more music at little-to-no extra cost. John Coltrane's A Love Supreme BD similarly has alternate takes and a live version of the album. Both of these albums have more than made their money back multiple times over the decades, so I can't see why everything can't finally be bundled up for us now that the high capacity delivery system that is Blu-ray is finally here - other than the label feeling they need to squeeze every last buck out of it.