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I got to disc five of Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collectionand had to throw in the towel. There were still another 65 CDs to go, not to mention the DVD, the 250-page book, the biography, the discography and all those rare photos. But the time I did spend on it – gazing at those awesome original covers again, reading the essay by noted French critic Frederic Goaty and a “capsule descriptions” of each and every album – was interesting enough.

But is it worth €360? The price varies from place to place, but it’s not cheap anywhere. It’s also one of the most beautiful musical artifacts ever released. But no one really thought people would pay so much money for a box set, and surely 70 CDs was a bit of an overload. Apparently not, by the buzz surrounding it.