My experience with collectibles is this,I have over the years brought and paid higher prices for special limited editions of say,rapoon with postcards,hand painted box or Steve roach early man slate edition or kraftwerk minimum maximum box set and after the initial cool factor,all of the artifacts sat in their boxes and I listened to the music.I am too old now to care about flipping over my gatefold dark side of the moon lp in my basement as cool as it might be.the music is what counts to me.though my music is mostly cd based,I am not attached to it and I believe the way is downloads,but until I can get lossless downloads without going through all different systems out there,zip or wav convertion to iTunes ,it will be cd mostly. From the purchases I did this year,there was no great big 16 page booklets or gold flecked cd covers,mostly bad printing on cheap cardboard or plain old plastic covers,mostly broken in the post. So from what I see,limited collectors editions mean not much to me as they will be more costly ( is that a good idea in the worst economy since the the 30s),take more time to make,post,etc...plus,really as an artist,if you make 300 copies and it does sell out,chances are you will do a reprint again sometime,like namlook did with his 500 editions and then reissues and then iTunes.you had to wait though for it.I just bought a limited 100 run print of a book as I am a fan of the subject,paid 35 pounds,the run sold out in 1 day and what do you know,within a day,another 200 went to print,and in a month,it will be an ebook.I do think book runs are different to cd or music titles though as the book is really a complete structure,from page one to the end,not something that can be split like music and the artwork.IMO anyway.plus,the cd is far from dead but is of another generation.
