It still is a tremendous bargain at the new price of $49.95.
To offer a little more insight into this topic, let me draw a comparison. For the most part, Richard Weize of Bear Family Records has always been a niche marketer, not a mass marketer. He does these specialty products that appeal to a very narrow segment. (How many people really want to hear the WORST songs Jim ever recorded? A very small number). He knows he won't sell a lot of those dreadful Abbott recordings he's rehashing (with David Bussey's typically "first person narrative" and very egocentric liner notes), but that those fanatics will pay a high price. Hence he jacks up the price on these products to astronomical heights (as he has done with the new Abbott crap at $96 for only 3 CDs), to offset the low sales figures. For all the ego satisfaction Mr. Bussey may temporarily derive from seeing his name in print, it is NOT a CD release that can or will compete with the broad appeal of "The Great Jim Reeves," nor will Bear be doing the sort of multi-media extensive promotion that we are doing (such as TV ads).
In perusing the liner notes posted thus far from the Abbott release, I note that Michael Streissguth's name is repeatedly invoked. You remember him: the guy who inspired me to write my book because of the egregious mischaracterization he made of Jim Reeves having a "black heart" and being such a monster. So be it. Bussey and Arie Den Dulk continue to cast their lot with an author who grotesquely misportrayed Jim, and that speaks volumes about THEM.
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