Anybody Seen 3Pak at the ...

[BREVARD Adrian R.]

Interesting.  No apparent re-mastering, no exciting packaging just the
threee essential BOC's.  The price dosen't appear to be out of line either,
so it is as I anticipated a good buy for someone looking to get these three
cd's for the first time or a great bargain for a BOC newbie looking to
explore the bands roots.  Just returned from Best Buy and suprisingly, 1)
they did not have 3Pak and 2) they have raised the price on the original 3
cd's from $7.88 to $8.99.  I'm assuming they are about to get a supply of 3
paks.  Looking at the Sony Web page BOC was not the only r'n'r veterans to
have a three pak,  James Taylor and many others were also slated for release
on Oct. 24.

AB
Music Note:  Dr. Cutouts is at it again.  Just picked up for review:

Magnum - Wings of Heaven (1988)
Kansas- In the Spirit of Things (1988)
Edgar Winters- Mission Earth* (1989) Songs Composed by L. Ron Hubbard -
interesting
Note the above tapes were 3 for $5.00
Great White - Great White (1984) $5.99 for cd
Con Funk Shun - Ffun Compilation of their greatest hits.  A leftover from my
Disco days  Band produced some tremendous ballads.

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I just got back from a business trip to Colorado Springs, and I saw
the 3 pack out there.  As suspected, it is simply the first 3 CDs boxed
together - the original CD numbers are on the sides of the CDs, so I'm
sure they're exactly the same.  The packaging is pretty simple.

While I didn't understand the need for Sony to do this, a few listmembers
indicated that they would buy it.  I would say that if you don't yet have
the first 3 albums on CD (and IMHO, these 3 albums are "must haves" for
anyone into BOC), then this 3pack is for you - but only because it is
probably a cheaper way to get the discs.  There's nothing new here, but
the price is right.  The 3pack I saw was going for $20, which is certainly
a good price for 3 discs.  If you shop around, you may find a record
store selling BOC albums for a price that would beat out the price of the
3pack, but these aren't that easy to come by.  Just for comparative
purposes, the store where I saw the 3pack was also selling WOTT for $19.

John