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Behold the morning star
What's this about a golden ticket 'Seal of Xanatinos'?
Quiet Member
Climbing up in the rafters sounds more like Brad Wilk, lol.
FATUM NOS IUNGET
Essentially like golden tickets. Five copies will have them included and the lucky finder gets....something. Of course the band haven't announced what exactly. Signed shit, tickets, who knows...Originally Posted by Conan The Barbarian
Behold the morning star
So my chances of obtaining this have gone out the window.
Active Member
The MT Void album is surprisingly good, I've had it on rotation all week. An interesting mix of electronica, rock, trip-hop, spacey trippiness, Justin Broadrick-style atmospheres, Laibach-ish Polish vocals, and some flashes of Toolishness. Buy that instead of Opiate reissue.
Hairy Member
ok, so i guess it went on sale for members of the tool army (i'm not a member, just repeating what others have said on another forum)....
$150!!!!!
fuuuuuuck that.
Resident Asshole
Wait, is this for Opiate?
Throbbing Member
One of the variations.....$150, I don't know mannn.
FATUM NOS IUNGET
fuck...that...business...
Active Member
I had an old ToolArmy account and can confirm they are each $150. And the art doesn't look all that different between each variation. Dumb.
Hairy Member
it looks signed, maybe thats why...
but still, fuck that.
Stubby Member
Maybe only five people will hear the new album and it will self destruct afterward.
Liking the new reissue. Just not the price tag and the tool hub bub
Resident Asshole
Talk about sending a big "FUCK YOU!" to their fans......$150 for one of their least groundbreaking EPs is such a slap to the face. Sadly, those fanboys out there that have to have everything TOOL related will gobble these up faster than hot dogs on a porno shoot.
bastard from blue city
i'm not sold on the art itself, either. it's more in line with the more recent output, i suppose.
Administrator
The graphic design of recent Tool visual output is terrible. Really amateur looking stuff. And that price point is absurd - weren't the signed Lateralus vinyls going for $100 from the band?
Oh and look the center of the obsolete media format is an eyeball! Do you think we'll see a return to the Invisible Man next?
tempus est umbra in mente
also, I thought we all agreed that Opiate wasn't that great?
i'm too thin
I'm such a mindless drone for spending $150 on an extremely rare, signed reissue of my favorite band's first EP with some bad-ass artwork and a bunch of extras.
I wish Tool would license a cyanide pill so I could end my sad little existence.
tempus est umbra in mente
You are super fanboy number one.
Also, Opiate sucked. It continues to suck.
FATUM NOS IUNGET
Agreed. I'm so past the point in my life when I give the tiniest of shits about extras. Oooh, this $100 blu ray has a behind the scenes documezzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ. I love Tool. They're such a great band. Honestly, they come back to do a show and of course I'll probably go. Even then...man, oh man....Opiate sucks lol.
House Always Wins
I really like Tool but $150.00 reissue? Ehhhhh. I already own Opiate on CD and Vinyl so I'll pass on getting this a third time.
Last edited by Space Suicide; 03-22-2013 at 11:36 PM.
The Virus Inside
The sad thing is, once Trent drops the bomb on the Fragile deluxe re-issue and the price tag is between $150-200, everyone complaining that the price is too high for this, will all be dropping that kinda cash for The Fragile...
I mean the Ghosts I-IV LE was like what, $500? And that's not even that good of an album...
Administrator
Ghosts super-deluxe was $300. So, that's the same price as buying two of the five versions of Opiate. But Ghosts came with 2 CDs, a DVD, a 24/96 Bluray, 4 lp records, a photo book, and two giclee art prints.
Active Member
Opiate is better than 10,000 Days. There, I've said it. But even with that belief, I wouldn't even buy this release at a fleamarket for 3 pieces of hair.
Memb, Member, The Membest
i used to believe reissues were once the way to provide the market with almost identical copies of popular releases to meet the demand, and stuff. heh.
Throbbing Member
I might actually be tempted to buy this if I had the money, if only because of how much the value will probably go up with time.
Stubby Member
Wow, that's... your opinon.
Last edited by Emil Dorbell; 03-23-2013 at 06:20 AM.
tempus est umbra in mente
This is what bugs me here. The band is fully aware of this incentive, and that's almost implied. There is no way that what is being offered is really worth 150 dollars, and it's messed up that the person printing the thing is ramping the price up due to how limited and eventually rare it's (probably) going to be.
The comparisons to the Ghosts box set aren't really fair (and not just because I think Ghosts is actually a good album). There is one way that they are similar though, and that's the fact that it's too valuable to actually listen to. It drives me nuts. I'm a fan of the whole "records are for listening to" thing, not for sitting on your shelf in pristine condition and treated like some precious relic. I've actually been planning on selling my Ghosts box set because it drives me nuts for this exact reason. I don't buy albums hoping that they'll become valuable so I can one day sell them for a profit, and that's the blatant implied intention behind this reissue of Opiate: buy this and never open it.
Administrator
If you want an investment, see a financial advisor. Don't buy mass produced CDs and think they'll earn you money that's at all worth the time spent warehousing those goods.
i'm too thin
Am I literally the only person here who thinks this is a fair price for a 5,000 copy signed CD from a multi-platinum, Grammy award winning band?
Honest question, would other bands of their calibre (speaking solely of popularity, not quality) sell something like this for much cheaper?
Active Member
No point getting angry about something nobody is obligated to buy.
But it does seem like a bit of a waste of time and effort for everybody involved: band and fans alike.
I'd rather they get some artists and put together a book of Tool-inspired artwork - like Melvins' Neither Here nor There - and sell it for $30.
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