Pre-Order Thread

Corycm said:
2000 pieces to a big fan base (plus you know the flippers were circling early on this one), plus the leaked release? Math checks out.
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This raises an interesting question: just how many record collectors are there out there?

A quick Google search analyzes the market in basically two ways: Total dollars spent in the marke and number of brick and mortar "indie" records stores (pre-pandemic that was estimated to be about 1000).

We might be better able to predict when its best to swallow hard and pre-order immediately if we knew a rough number of actual indivdual collectors in say: the US and separately the UK and Europe.

Obviously there's a certain percentage of those aren't interested in Dirt - which we could probably reliably estimate based on the number of total collectors. And then, knowing the pressing number (2000 vs. 5000 for example) the popularity of the artist and accounting for retailer purchases - you might have a better basis to decide whether to pass or pull the trigger.

Maybe this is the long way to conclude - you better just buy it as soon as it goes on sale ... but I'd still like to know the number.
 
threesunrises said:
I wouldn't say it was a FOMO buy - having those singles is worth the box set. I was put off by the price at first, but my husband knows they were my first fave Seattle band, we have multiple PJ, SG, Chris Cornell box sets, so it really was a no brainer.
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Yeah, that comment wasn’t directed towards you, Knowing how you collected I woulda been surprised if you didn’t pick up the Box set. I was more addressing folks missing out on the limited orange pressing. No reason to do anything crazy. There’s gonna be other options even if you have to have it on colored wax.
 
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