Deluxe Box Set

Steven Wilson is becoming known for making long time fans pay loads of cash for the biggest and most badass edition of the newest record of one of his several projects. Porcupine Tree's new record, The Incident is up for preorder all over the world for the standard jewel case $9 at Best Buy version, but also the Super Deluxe Box Set On Steroids edition for over $100. After A LOT of disputing with myself, I decided that I am going to indeed get it as well as the vinyl version whenever they release the details for that.

Luckily i'm splitting it with my brother, who is also a fan. So what comes in this ridiculously expensive box set? Well according to Mr. Wilson...

- Both discs of The Incident
- DVD-A 5.1 mix of the record
- A 120 pg cloth bound book jammed with photographs from Lasse Hoile
- A 40 page book with drawings and sketches to go along with the lyrics

And it all comes cased in a huge slip case as you can see in the picture. Wilson admits it's more expensive than it should be but in order to be shipped to our front doors, it needs to be that much money. Also, we'll be able to have a digital version of the entire record A WHOLE DAY BEFORE IT COMES OUT. Fortunately, I believe we'll have the option to pick from Lossless and FLAC versions rather than just your typical mp3 format, so it'll at least sound better than whatever will leak weeks early.

So call me crazy. I don't care. I'm a sucker for special editions in general and they usually don't come around for music too often. Hopefully this is worth the cash that I'll be dishing out.

The Incident hits stores September 14th but if you wish to preorder this crazy box set or the normal non-fanboy version, you can go to porcupinetree.com and follow a few links and you'll find it.