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An Ark-set. Mono-theistic of course. Recorded with a close-miked bimah.

Please tip your waitress ...

to see multiple Dylan fetishist live and in person, just take a stroll thru the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. lol.

Got mind on order. Wish they would do this with the Beatles.

It's not that often something comes out that I really look forward to getting, but this one is one of those.
Covering Bob Dylans most influential and groundbreaking period, for someone like me with multiple copies and pressings of all three records, plus all the bootleg series to date, etc., etc. This is really cool.
I'm a big fan of the first bootleg issue, vol. 1 - 3. The vinyl Europe only issue has good to great sound and the music, well... It's pretty much all greatness.
I hope the sound on this one is up to the promise. Sound on the bootleg series has been inconsistent, with "No Direction Home" all sounding pretty great, with "Tell Tale Signs" a muddy, distant effort. The last one was good though, the Self Portrait sessions, I thought the sound was a good 9 on that one.
But for the music itself, this upcoming LP set promises to be great :-)

A number of other super deluxe editions have bombed on the marketplace, being sold eventually for 50% or less of list.

This one, despite being so outrageously priced, might sell through, given the grail like qualities of the material.

By the same token the sound files will probably be available illictly even before the release date.

talking about he $599 set.

Anybody know whether the files will be real High Resolution?
Ie., 96/24 or better?
That is much more interesting to me than a box full of CDs

Once again, we get the by-now familiar choice of bad buying decisions from Sony/Columbia: If you want the complete set of Dylan’s songs, outtakes, etc.-- and why else would you you even consider such a boxed set if you already have the original album? -- you’ll need to get the CD package.

But if you all you need to do is to enjoy a smaller, more limited set of songs in a quality format, you’ll have to choose the LP set, which also gets you a couple of CDs to play in your car.

This buyer’s “choice" totally sucks, and especially so when it comes to Dylan’s work, because with Dylan, sing titles mean nothing. (And if you want to see what I mean, check out “Lay Lady Lay” on Nashville Skyline vs. “Lay Lady Lay” on Hard Rain -- not only aren’t they the same song, they have totally different meanings/outcomes!)

As an audiophile AND a Dylan fan, I deplore the choices Sony/Columbia continues to offer us.

Put this in audiophile terms: Should Wilson sell two versions of their WAMM loudspeaker, one at $500,000 and the other at $450,000, the only difference being that the lower-priced version doesn’t get either woofers or tweeters? Because both LP and CD versions of the Dylan boxed sets go for premium prices, but only one’s got everything you'd want (and expect) from a “bootleg” while the other is a lame “official” imitation, albeit pressed on vinyl.

And, plainly, cost shouldn’t be the issue here: I have a $400 phono preamp, a $600 phono cartridge, and an $1100 turntable. So why should someone with a $400 CD player be entitled to a better boxed set from Sony/Columbia than I can have? If anything, I should be entitled to a better Lp set than the CD-only buyer gets.

Mikey, if you know anybody at Columbia, please send this plea to them. Because maybe instead of these Sony/Columbia “official bootleg” box releases Dylan fans ought to be thinking about organizing Dylan bootleg clubs, in which one member buys the CD box to distribute on CD-ROMS to everyone else in the club, and places all the printed matter from the package online.....

Instead of these phony “official bootlegs,” maybe from now on Dylan fans ought to consider real bootlegs we make ourselves....

Are you listening Sony/Columbia? Can you hear me now?

PS -- The first Dylan LP I bought was Freewheelin' (back when it first came out), his second Lp, and the first one with his own songs. I’ve been listening to Dylan ever since. But it’s worth recalling that even back then Columbia stripped out “John Birch Society Blues” from all but the first few copies of that album. So believe me, I have no love for what Columbia has done for/to Dylan over the years (including the release of the album “Dylan" as a kind of blackmail threat when he went to Asylum) or (too often!) for how they've posthumously treated some Miles Davis’ work, either.

How to get all the songs on the Deluxe 6 cd set and vinyl too

Go Amazonian
Buy the vinyl, it comes with the 2 cds
Then do a 30 day trial of Amazon Prime and be able to download the 6 cd box content

Do you really need 20 false starts of Like a Rolling Stone? On vinyl?