Jeff Interview with Billboard

Indifference

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/ ... !835671228

Plankton

Good interview, thanks for posting that.

Probably not to this extent. Except for that first record, for me, I feel like on every record, we overextended ourselves with the sorts of packages we put out. With "Vitalogy," that package cut into about 30 to 40% of our royalties, because the manufacturing wasn't set up to do what we wanted. On "Vs.," we did an ecopack, which they don't do anymore. It preceded the digipak. It was us trying to take plastic out of the package and make it more like a record; to make it feel like you were opening something up and something inside would reveal itself. It would be big enough to be a substantial piece of art, and it wouldn't be in a jewel case. We hated those from the very beginning, because they were breakable. The spines would break, the cases would crack and you couldn't close them. Subsequent reissues won't be to the extent of what we did with "Ten." I haven't started digging through those boxes yet, but I can only think of a handful of things I'd like to re-do on any of those records. That would be more mix or sound things.

That answers our questions about future rereleases then. Makes sense if you ask me, otherwise it would be a bit much.

It would be cool though, if the reissues from now on come with the CD/plus the LPs and possibly anything else, but in a similar (thinner) black box as the Ten SDE did, just to have a complete timeline.