Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Pixies' 'Minotaur' Box Set details

This is obscene. All bands have, at least once in their career, been packaged, repackaged, branded, luxed and reduxed but this monster is just utterly wrong. For the princely sum of $495 for the limited edition box set, you get more bang for your buck, sure, but you also get an unhealthy amount of inconseqential fluff, most of which has absolutely nothing to do with The Pixies and their music and everything to do with marketing a product to 3,000 sycophantic completists. It's even got its own YouTube video (below).......
For $495 you're entitled to expect Black Francis and Kim Deal to pop out themselves and run through those chords from 'Doolittle' you'd never quite mastered. Instead, you get a 2 foot tall faux-fur book with - get this - a spray painted dick on the cover. Perhaps I'm missing out on something here, perhaps some would consider this a fitting tribute to a genre-defining band but, truly, this is all utter dick to me. Wrong on every level.


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