This makes me sad, this set is absolute fire. But I guess Cadet doesn't hold the same clout as something like Blue Note or Impulse.
I’m really interested in the set, but can’t justify the price. If it comes down, I will be more inclined. I just think there’s less of a market these days for $350-400 purchases.
I honestly think they’re pricing the anthologies too high. The ones that had been sold out were all under $300 (even if just listed at $299).
My reasonable wish, that'll never happen, is that box sets go back to being cheaper than buying each record individually. You should get a discount for buying them all in one go.
This is why I look elsewhere at boxes when they go on sale. I got the Otis set from Rhino for like $70 I think.
I do the same. I love box sets. They are a big weakness of mine. So I hunt for the blowouts too. That Otis set is nice and I regret not grabbing it when it was that price. I opted for the Staple Singers box set over that one at the time. It's gorgeous too.
I think labels can do steep discounts and charge less in general because they aren’t paying for licensing. They also aren’t paying to take the tapes out to bring to a studio to cut. They just hire Bernie or KG or whoever for a day to cut all the records then pay for the pressings/packaging.
Thats what they did for Bluenote. (Well sort of you were all in). Dolly is sort of that way.
I think they would be sitting on tons of stock if they did it this way. How many boxes do you make? Not everybody is going to buy all the titles…If the BN box is any indication, seems like VMP goes to a label and says they want to do a box set and the label says “this is what you can choose from”. Labels aren’t letting people have free rein over their catalogues, especially the huge labels. I don’t doubt that VMP would have wanted to do all the huge titles from Impulse but either Impulse wouldn’t let them or it would have cost too much to license.
We've been talking about this one since at least the GD/Herbie/Tribe days, right?
The first leaked image of it from a VMP video was in November of 2021. so in the words of Aaron Lewis...
Problem for them would be that they would be selling out of the sought after albums fast and have lots of the stock of the others. Anthology prices would be like 50- 60$ for a single lp. Overall with extra shipping etc. they probably would have more cost, more trouble ( imagine the reaction of those who bought the box and the first two titles and then don't get a copy of ptah etc.)
hah - be thankful you don't collect Mosaic Records boxes like I do/did.
Mosaic are the only boxsets I still buy with regularity. The Sonny Clark Blue Note boxset is out for delivery right now and I can't wait!
Nice. I have sat out the last few because I have all of the CDs (Henderson, Hubbard and this) but I still remain tempted. Listened to the Ike Quebec 45s just yesterday after reading about people's love for Blue and Sentimental.
I like the mosaics but the “complete” ones are fun for me for one or two listens then I find myself wanting to listen to just the full albums.
I bought some over the years on eBay that came out before my time. Some I bought from collectors downsizing. I was lucky enough to have a mentor who retired and gave me some of Mosaic sets. The more recent titles I bought as they came out over the last 10-15 years which have been mostly CDs, but there were some vinyl sets like Coltrane's Sun Ship, which I'm lucky enough to have a test pressing of.
