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Out This Week / on 6 December 2019

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G Stands for Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology volume 2 box set

The Go Betweens / G-Stands for Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 2. CD, Vinyl

Officially issued last week, this is getting a mention again because Amazon UK appear to have stock for just £125. Domino follow up G-Stands for Go-Betweens – their 2015 box set devoted to Australian indie band The Go-Betweens – with a second box, G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 2.

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German Deal: 3 for €25 for deluxe CDs

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Amazon in Germany are back with a fine 3-for-€25 deal on CD sets including triple CDs, 2CD+DVDs, SACDs and ‘album collection’ 5CD sets. Some great titles here including recent R.E.M. deluxe editions, classic rock titles from the likes of Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Paul McCartney, The Moody Blues, Roxy Music and Mike Oldfield, as well as some great pop from Crowded House, Jellyfish, Nik Kershaw.

Here is the main list for physical music, but of course SDE wants to make your life easy and so you can check out our ‘curated’ selection of great titles below!
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David Bowie / Conversation Piece review

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In 1989 Rykodisc included a previously unreleased demo of David Bowie‘s ‘Space Oddity’ in their Sound + Vision box. 30 years later that same demo is included on CD again on Conversation Piece, a five-CD music box set that could well be the best Bowie reissue for decades.
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Out This Week / on 29 November 2019

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Prince / 1999 box set CD, Vinyl, Box Set

Warner Records reissue Prince‘s fifth studio album 1999 across six different physical formats, including a 5CD+DVD super deluxe and 10LP+DVD set, both of which feature 35 previously unreleased audio tracks.

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Saturday Deluxe / 23 November 2019

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Pet Shop Boys to call time on CD singles?

Yesterday the Pet Shop Boys announced another single from their forthcoming album, Hotspot. ‘Burning The Heather’ features Bernard Butler on guitar and had already been made available on YouTube etc. but it will be coming out as a ‘proper’ single on 13 December. So far so good, but the unfunny joke in this Christmas cracker is that the ‘single packages,’ as they described them, do not include a CD single.
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