This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
And Finally Releases
Costello says “Don’t buy my overpriced box set”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 November 2011
Elvis Costello has advised his fans not to buy a box set of his music being released by Universal, because he objects to the price it’s being sold for, which is currently £212.66 on Amazon. Indicating that he has been in dispute with his label over the price of the box set release for a while, Costello called the current price point “either a misprint or a satire”, and urged fans not to buy the release.
Meanwhile a statement on the singer songwriter’s official website recommended: “If you want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we suggest, ‘Ambassador Of Jazz’ – a cute little imitation suitcase containing ten re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived – Louis Armstrong. The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats. [And] frankly the music is vastly superior”.
Ouch. Oh well, at least the Armstrong box set is on another Universal imprint.