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I think it comes to a question of cost/benefit. Dealing with Roc Nation or whatever enterprise that has Jay Z's catalog for just an EP with barely any additional stuff, with the risk of being a commercial failure, isn't worth. LP hardcore fan base isn't so big as some people of this forum think. Yeah, Numb/Encore is quite popular, but nobody remember the remaining tracks. Besides, best case scenario, what can you throw on an hypothetical edition? The Roxy, Live 8 show and the MFR 05? That shit fits on one single DVD and it's just for us.

I was hoping to had the remaining Roxy show and the LPU5 tracks on CD, since are impossible to get nowadays. But after two massive boxsets, I can't complain. It would have been a cool bonus anyway!

There's still some hope for half of the Roxy show...

Well... https://www.instagram.com/p/C6_RikzLIeo/?hl=es I hate to be right.

How many songs we have that the band consider as just demos but from the outside are full fledged songs? MTM20 it's going to have a good chunk of those...

I like to call it "play the poor victim to gain sympathy and popularity on the internet". It's obviously a lie, but those people like to be the center of attention for all the wrong reasons

You did a magnificent job back then. Congratulations

I think the 2012 version it's on the physical release too.

Nah, Imagine spending 200 bucks on a boxset, and then having songs cut, DVDs swapped... This is just a regular 10 bucks CD that half of us will buy when it's on offer

Great job @martinez! The physical edition does still have its own problems I assume, like the incorrect version of WFTE

Kurt Cobain is the new vocalist

Until they had decided that the 3CD set has sold enough.

I was highly skeptical about all of this. It's been many years of rumors and speculations that led to nothing. But the thing is, the band has been relatively active since Meteora20. What I mean is we've heard more things about them since, the Papercuts project, while useless on its own, seems to be revealed itself as a way of keeping the flame alive. Hell, look at this forum, it was almost dead through late 2020, to late 2022! For the first time I really believe that something might happen, I'm quite positive. And regarding to the female vocalist matter. As I always say, worst case scenario, you better fuck up doing something different rather than doing the same shit all over again.

The story doesn't say anything at all.

And that's why you don't release this stuff on vinyl

I've always thought that Mike was the creative master behind the band and Brad carried on all the legal, marketing, boring stuff... But it didn't ocurred to me to see him as THE leader of the band. Interesting approach...

If the recording was made with analog equipment, like with older recording as you mentioned, for sure it's the best way. Since most of recording nowadays are made digitally, you're paying double for the same shit, just because looks cool.

I wouldn't have said better. Although in hindsight I'm glad that the mellow songs dominated MTM, they had to prove that they're weren't just a nu metal band. I wouldn't have included on MTM but perhaps as a B-Side on a CD single.

Neither do I. Linkin Park is a 2000s band, modern sound, everything digital, vinyl is far from being the best physical format for their music. But, that's the rules of the market. PS: Don't take it as an attack if you like to collect it, I just see it pointless.

At this point their going to surpass Sean Downell

Yeah, it's like they had regular a SBD recording for the majority of the show and mixed it with the already released songs.

Three? HT20, M20 and the remaining? Just listened the whole thing. The live track is the LPU6 version.

Maybe they will release the full show before MTM20 since they've decided that it doesn't belong to that era and won't be included. Daydreaming

You can't force LP to get out from retirement, but you can't expect that a tribute band, with their hard work unexpectedly had filled that gap, to suddenly stop because you got butthurt. That's how life works, they fill a need for Linkin Park live shows. I'm not fan of tribute bands, I've seen a couple of Metallica and Megadeth tributes and they were just ok, but not everyone can afford to travel 1000kms to see those bands live, so I get the point of them existing. Some of you so pissed off with a tribute band when there's things worst like awful AI covers with Chester's voice and certain loser using vocal outtakes in reworked albums to revive his mediocre grunge band.

For a greatest hits made for casual listeners...? Don't get your hopes high