Are you still buying expensive FTD boxsets?

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How do you think about the FTD book/cd boxsets, like the upcoming G.I. Blues.

Poll runs till November 24th, 2025, 1:51 pm

I like them. I listen to the music and read the book(s) over and over again.
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3%
Never bought them, not interested.
3
9%
I like them, but too expensive.
10
31%
I did collect them, but can’t effort them anymore.
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No votes
Too much, too many.
3
9%
I buy them for the music.
1
3%
I really like the books.
3
9%
It depends what the boxset is all about.
8
25%
It doesn’t matter, I buy all FTD products.
3
9%
No opinion…
0
No votes
 
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Are you still buying expensive FTD boxsets?

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Personally, I still buy the expensive FTD box sets, but rather reluctantly. I'm interested in the audio, not those heavy books what boost those sets to ridiculous prices. I'm curious what you think.

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I used to buy them but sadly I've stopped doing so now because of the cost.
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I'm mostly interested in the books. I like the research work of, mainly, David and Pål. Just as I loved the books by Trevor Simpson.
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are there now more FTDs than RCA LPs?
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I like them and I do have a few.I've never regretted buying one but I do regret passing on the VLV set so I will consider buying them depending on what it is about.Currently considering the GI Blues set.Lot of money.Any regret there if I do ? If I don't ?
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I do buy some of them, but only for the music, so hugely resent having to pay a lot of money for books that I don't want.
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Snoopy wrote: November 4th, 2025, 10:14 pm I like them and I do have a few.I've never regretted buying one but I do regret passing on the VLV set so I will consider buying them depending on what it is about.Currently considering the GI Blues set.Lot of money.Any regret there if I do ? If I don't ?
If you suffer from constant FOMO, it might be a good idea to get your order in. If you're only interested in the audio portion of the box set, you may want to wait until the first impressions are posted online, for the amount of unreleased material on G.I. Blues will be minimal at best and we currently have no idea what was done in this regard, sequencing aside.

The books themselves certainly contain information and (beautiful, high quality) images that aren't readily available elsewhere. Unfortunately the text in these books is usually prone to punctuation issues and the occassional typo, but nothing too bad I hope.
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