21st Century Breakdown - Target special edition (w/ bonus live tracks)

[deathtofalsesushi]

So according to Target's ad for next week, they will carry a special edition of 21CB which includes six unreleased songs recorded live in Japan. It's priced at $13.98.

I assume those live tracks are from the American Idiot tour. I wonder if it's the same bonus CD that come with the American Idiot Japanese release, as that's also 6 songs.

Sorry if it's been posted already, I couldn't get the search function to work.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Oh god, not another special edition

But thanks for posting

[MusicalDeviant]

AHHHHH!!!

I've already bought two fucking versions of this album!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Don't they know that the economy sucks right now?

[amy_runs]

I'm going to buy this

[Angela.]

Another special edition? I've already bought the limited edition (The 21stCB CD and 52-page bound book with artwork and lyrics) from Best Buy, so I won't be buying this. (For now, at least. I might change my mind later on. )

[Green Day Luigi]

Bonus live tracks? YES! I'm so getting this one.

[.Yoshi.]

AHHHHH!!!

I've already bought two fucking versions of this album!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Don't they know that the economy sucks right now?

[J'net]

AHHHHH!!!

I've already bought two fucking versions of this album!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Don't they know that the economy sucks right now?

Hahaha - I think they're trying to single-handedly revive it with one album!!!

[.Holly]

wow, another special edition...dont' think I'll bother with this one, I've got Bullet in a Bible for live tracks

[badwolf]

why did they price it so cheap? i mean thats good, but its brand new. shouldn't it be expensive?

[permanent_insanity]

why did they price it so cheap? i mean thats good, but its brand new. shouldn't it be expensive?

are you complaining about cheap music?

maybe they want people to actually be able to afford it

[deathtofalsesushi]

Honestly, between this and the Best Buy edition, I'm leaning toward Best Buy. A little more expensive, but the expanded artwork seems worth it more than 6 live tracks that are, in all likelihood, songs that we all probably have a dozen different live versions of.

Now if there was a physical release that included those 4 cover songs, I'd pay up to $20 for it

[MusicalDeviant]

Another special edition? I've already bought the limited edition (The 21stCB CD and 52-page bound book with artwork and lyrics) from Best Buy, so I won't be buying this. (For now, at least. I might change my mind later on. )

Just bought this. And I guess I'll be sending my boring old 'normal' copy of the album, that I pre-ordered back in February, back. Or giving it to someone as a gift.

[Haydée]

haha I'm not spending more money.

Tickets and the CD. That's it.

The normal edition.

[pooldude256]

Don't they know that the economy sucks right now?

That's why they are trying to suck all the money out of the economy as they can now, in case it fails more.

[MusicalDeviant]

That's why they are trying to suck all the money out of the economy as they can now, in case it fails more.

If they keep oversaturating the market, then it WILL fail. Why spend so much money making so much of a product when you make less product and sell it for more?

[Guest Shangri-La]

Oh no. this is just ridiculous. No way am i buying four versions of the same album.

ok i am.

[Kate Austen]

Yeah, this is actually really shitty. I wonder if the band approves of this? This has to be a label thing. We are starting to tread "Billie Corgan" territory (he released like 20 versions of Zeitgeist).

[pooldude256]

If they keep oversaturating the market, then it WILL fail. Why spend so much money making so much of a product when you make less product and sell it for more?

Unfortunately that's the world we live in. Music companies are making deals with every different store to try to get the retailer to fork over more for the "exclusive" rights to whatever they are selling. Live tracks, b-sides, bonus tracks, covers...they are always coming up with more things to try to make shit sell more.

Yes it's over saturation, but you know people will buy it. When you have an album as big as American Idiot, the follow-up always has to come in a billion formats.

Take U2 for example...they did like 4 different standard "packages" to sell their last album. The album may be crap, but people will buy it. Once a band hits it big, time to cash in.

It's pretty clear here Green Day weren't trying to sound like AI, which is a good thing. But the record company does their own shit. Like putting a song as the first single which definitely should not have been.

[Guest Shangri-La]

Yeah, this is actually really shitty. I wonder if the band approves of this? This has to be a label thing. We are starting to tread "Billie Corgan" territory (he released like 20 versions of Zeitgeist).

elvis costello is worse. there's nothing i hate more than having to buy 4 different versions of the same costello record in one year. but it must be done.

[Juan]

Yeah, this is actually really shitty. I wonder if the band approves of this? This has to be a label thing. We are starting to tread "Billie Corgan" territory (he released like 20 versions of Zeitgeist).

they'll be the Smashing Days when they start releasing singles only

[Vanilla Shake]

6 bonus live songs that were unreleased? Okay, I'll get that version of the CD. I've got the iTunes deluxe edition pre-ordered, so I get four bonus songs with that. Then I get the physical copy with 6 bonus live songs for 13 bucks, when other stores will sell the normal version of the album for 20 bucks? That's a fucking bargain in my opinion.

The 15th will be grand. CD, iTunes download of the album, and tickets for the New York concert. I'm set.

[pooldude256]

elvis costello is worse. there's nothing i hate more than having to buy 4 different versions of the same costello record in one year. but it must be done.

That's what the likes of Limewire was invented for.

[Green Day Luigi]

No offense but I don't really see why some of you even need to buy even two versions of the same album, let alone 3 or 4.

This will be the only version of 21 CB that I'll be getting.

[permanent_insanity]

I'm just buying the normal edition at the mall next Saturday, than trying to get concert tickets