{"id":20851,"date":"2014-01-10T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2014-01-24T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:09:08","slug":"odds-and-sods-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/odds-and-sods-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#038; Sods Collections in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20852\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatlesagain.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20852\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20852\" alt=\"(AKA Hey Jude.)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatlesagain.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatlesagain.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatlesagain-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatlesagain-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AKA Hey Jude.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think you can buy <em>The Beatles Again<\/em> (aka <em>Hey Jude<\/em>), a vinyl collection of non-album tracks, as a distinct CD. It may have changed in recent years, but there was a long stretch when you also could not buy a distinct CD of Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions&#8217; similar odds &amp; sods collection, <em>Taking Liberties<\/em>. Soon, when all physical media are done away with, none of this will matter whatsoever and I&#8217;ll be grumpier than ever. Before this worse day comes, let me me bemoan the fact that not all the odds &amp; sods collections of my youth are available as distinct packages in the digital age. I don&#8217;t like having those tracks split up as bonus tracks on various albums.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure, meanwhile, that The Who&#8217;s <em>Odds &amp; Sods<\/em> has always survived the digital age as a distinct product, right?<\/p>\n<p>What odds &amp; sods collections from the vinyl age do you most regret seeing broken up over the reissues of various original albums?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think you can buy The Beatles Again (aka Hey Jude), a vinyl collection of non-album tracks, as a distinct CD. It may have changed in recent years, but there was a long stretch when you also could not buy a distinct CD of Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions&#8217; similar odds &amp; sods collection, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/odds-and-sods-digital\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[206,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}