With music sales in a steady decline, perhaps the biggest victim of the P2P era is the boxed set.
With only a limited number of sets planned for the latter part of 2008, sales of boxed sets have hit record lows, making labels reluctant about releasing them at all.
This year, the most notable boxed sets are the Jesus & Mary Chain's The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities, a Jane's Addiction anthology endorsed by drummer Stephen Perkins and retrospectives of Rob Zombie, Roy Orbison and Hall & Oates.
Even the most anticipated boxed set of them all, Neil Young's long-awaited Archives Vol. 1, has shifted into a BluRay format in hopes of avoiding the fate of its boxed peers (and for the video and space opportunities offered by the hi-def format).
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