On par to become the best selling box set in history. At least in the opening, it did.
First week it sold 130,000 copies...X4 for RIAA purposes since it was 3 CDs and a DVD...
That's 520000 individual CDs sold in the opening week, which is really damn good. And this guy's been gone for TEN years, longer than 'pac, and his influence is basically the entire alternative genre, which was nonexistent before he dropped "Smells LIke Teen Spirit."
If you market it right and put it out properly they will come. Unfortunately, Amaru has done such a bad job of whoring out shitty remixes that this OG boxset is going to be seen as a pathetic moneygrab. Geffen, on the other hand, did not release a single studio album of new material for 10 years, and when it was time they delivered, truly for the fans.
Half the titles on there are for songs that previously were known to be unknown titles officially, yet they have used bootlegger titles for the purposes of this release. and the entire DVD footage from concerts/shows is all from fans' recordings.
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