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Posted: 1/26/06
Green Day Box Set: Juicy Jam or Stupid Scam?
So, all the buzzy-wuzzing amongst the little bees lately says that there is a new Green Day Collector’s Edition coming out. It’s supposedly going to be a three CD box set. The box set is rumored to contain mostly spoken word stuff – so don’t pee your pants just yet, all you b-side die harders.
Apparently, the CDs tell the story of Green Day through recorded biographical information, interviews, etc, and then the rest of the box set has all of these rare images, posters, and photos that they claim are super hot and un-find-able elsewhere.
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon was claiming that this Green Day Collector’s edition was coming out on January 31st. However, the item seems to have disapparated off the jungle giant’s theoretical shelves as of late, and can now not even by found through Chrome Dreams, the producers of the set, although you may be able to find a copy on eli.com.
If the Green Day Collector’s Edition never floods the mainstream, it may not trouble fans, who are feeling pressured to make another big purchase so soon after having broken the bank on “Bullet in a Bible.” While many GDers are happy, or at least, grudgingly happy to take whatever’s given, others feel like are becoming victims of the “American Idiot” machine, a machine that just won’t stop pumping out new material for them to buy.
It’s a tough call, because on the one hand, if you’re a new Green Day fan, this thing could provide quite the sweet-ass little meet and greet. On the other hand, you might have just sold all the blood and returned all the empties you had to sell and return just so you could buy their discography, and now you’re tapped.
So what is this all up with, you may ask. Where does Green Day stand on the it’s-okay-to-bleed-me-dry-cause-I’m-your-biggest-fan issue? You might be glad to know that this particular Green Day Box Set offering is, in fact, in no way authorized by the band. In fact, the front of the Box Set states (in letters all most too small to read) : "This product is not authorized by the artist, their record company or management. It is a spoken word product and contains no music."
Lesson for the day: Don’t be fooled by the hype. For as much official Green Day material as there is out there, there’s ten times as much crap just trying to capitalize on their success. Something tells me this so-called "Collector’s Edition" is going to be nothing more than the Pogo Paradise / Suburbia Bomb fiasco all over again, so save you’re money to bid on Mike Dirnt jockstrap on Ebay.
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