I was thrilled that my Kingston Wall: The Real Live Thing -5LP box set finally arrived, but it was quite a letdown. I was expecting a beautiful package made of sturdy thick cardboard. Instead the whole thing is almost as cheap as it can get.
Very thin cardboard slide-in sleeve (like the Swallow The Sun 5LP), no inserts, LP sleeves are thin, LPs are 140g. The cardboard sleeve has a die-cut logo on it, maybe that is meant to be the quality mark on this. There are 5 LPs, but they couldn't get the band name or even the catalog number on the same level in any of those. Each one of them is slightly off compared to the others, and it's not even due to centering, the whole printing is just off on them. I hope it sounds good, otherwise there's nothing good in it. The worst piece of box set junk I've ever seen.
EDIT. Anti-gripe:
Thank God I decided to open the Blood Music package last. All that bitter disappointment is washed away, because everything in the BM package is just perfect again. The LPs and sleeves reek of quality and the vinyl colour design and execution is brilliant! Dan Terminus, Astronoid, Scum, Irreversible Machanism - I especially love the IR vinyl outcome.
Very thin cardboard slide-in sleeve (like the Swallow The Sun 5LP), no inserts, LP sleeves are thin, LPs are 140g. The cardboard sleeve has a die-cut logo on it, maybe that is meant to be the quality mark on this. There are 5 LPs, but they couldn't get the band name or even the catalog number on the same level in any of those. Each one of them is slightly off compared to the others, and it's not even due to centering, the whole printing is just off on them. I hope it sounds good, otherwise there's nothing good in it. The worst piece of box set junk I've ever seen.
EDIT. Anti-gripe:
Thank God I decided to open the Blood Music package last. All that bitter disappointment is washed away, because everything in the BM package is just perfect again. The LPs and sleeves reek of quality and the vinyl colour design and execution is brilliant! Dan Terminus, Astronoid, Scum, Irreversible Machanism - I especially love the IR vinyl outcome.
-Heavy user-