MUSIC NEWS- Not that long ago, CD Box Sets were normally expensive music items, but in recent years, the list price for most collections are down to bargain priced, no doubt a result of the recession, struggling CD sales and the casual way the term "box set" is now used. For most music fans, the low prices are great news when looking to purchase their favorites, but it's interesting to note that there are still some box sets available that will require serious coin, or at least a high limit credit card. See our list below of some of the more expensive box sets for 2009. They run the full range of genres, from classical to rock and include interesting mixes of products; from books and DVDs to original artwork and even x-rated goods (blame it on Rammstein) !
Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box 
Price: $789.98
The complete set includes 90 CDs (every original album Yo-Yo Ma has recorded to date), two bonus discs featuring the first release of John Williams’ Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra, entirely re-mastered with DSD technology, a 312-page hard-bound book, a beautifully designed velvet-lined box, numbered limited-edition with letter of authenticity, a rare archival of photos, essays, full track lists, original liner notes, and more.
The Pixies : Minotaur Box Set
Price: $753.98
This box set features all five of the band’s studio albums — Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde — on 24K gold-plated discs and 180-gram vinyl. It also includes a 96-page fine art book and a 52-page photo book, a bookmark signed by all the members of the Pixies, two double-sided posters and a Giclee print of some of Oliver’s art. Topping it all off is a DVD and Blu-ray with all five Pixies albums on 5.1 Surround Sound Mix, an unreleased 1992 concert from London’s Brixton Academy and all of the band’s music videos.
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