discounted Raging Bull disc...

When the Raging Bull disc came out I went ahead and bought it at around
$24.00 thinking it would be a long, long time before it hit the discount
bins.

So I was surprised to see a basic edition hit the shelves at under $10.00.
I saw that today.

I looked the disc over and it did not mention whether the disc had the
commentary tracks found on the special edition I bought.

Can anyone tell me?

 

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No, it doesn't. Bare-bones only.

 

Piracy and illegal file sharing are doing great things that are
beneficial to consumers...

JB

 

I really did'nt think of that... but I bet there's a lot of truth in it.

 

I think such reasons underly the decision years ago of music labels to
*finally* quit cheating consumers out of the original artwork, lyric
sheets, bios, and so forth in the CDs. I remember for years opening up
my brand new CDs of classic albums, only to find a pathetic, lone,
singled-sided sliver of paper showing only the original album cover.
This was back when they were charging about $15 for CDs. It was quite
obvious that the labels had no sense of artistic integrity, no ambition
at all to provide music listeners with the most reasonable fascimile
possible of the original album in CD format. They were looking to cheat
you out of everything they possibly could until, possibly, consumers
exercised their vote by refraining from buying. They never did.
However, along came rampant piracy and file sharing and...voila....
labels started putting good packages together, even adding bonus tracks
in CD re-issues, probably in an effort to entice consumers who might
otherwise have turned to other nefarious sources for their music. Just
my opinion. Music labels were forced to sweeten the deal.

JB

 

Piracy and illegal file sharing are doing great things that are
That may be true, but it isn't in this case.

Raging Bull was released as a Special Edition ($29.99) and a Single Disc
Edition ($14.95)