On theiry, I have no problem with Bright Eyes re-releasing their earliest albums on vinyl. I don't buy vinyl, and I own it all any way, but if the hipsters over at Saddlecreek wanna waste everyboy's time it is really up to them.
Also, the album cover for Fevers And Mirrors is soooo cool, if you watched "An Evening With Saddle Creek" you can actually watch employees glueing the aforementioned mirror on the album cover.
According to Hearnebraska.com: "We’re talking A Collection of Songs…(2 LPs), Oh Holy Fools (Son Ambulance lives!), Letting Off the Happiness, Every Day and Every Night, Fevers and Mirrors (2 LPs), and There Is No Beginning to the Story. The doubles are $23 (180-gram), the EPs are $13 and the LPs are $15 (180-gram). Or you can get the lot for $99. Each reissue contains a CD of the album packaged in the jacket. And you also get the digital download for free. That’s a lot of content, folks. Too bad they didn’t get this ready in time for Christmas.
All well and good but who doesn't own this? If we want to remember Conor Oberst early days, why not release his first cassette. I have never even heard that. Or the first Commander Venus album.
Incidentally, while researching this spost, I found out Bright Eyes were named for Captain PROJECT MOON BASE with shorts: COMMANDO CODY PTS 7 & 8, from 1953: Here is a syposis of the episode: "The feature is an extremely dated movie set in the futurist date of 1970 and is about a space station orbiting the earth on which everyone walks on walls via magnetic boots (despite the signs that say “Don’t Walk on Walls”). They are preparing for the first lunar orbital mission and are going to send a three person crew consisting of Major Bill Moore, the cute 90-lb female astronaut Colonel Breiteis (pronounced Bright Eyes… hmmm, sound a bit like Charlton Heston), and the scientist Dr. Wernher. But Dr. Wernher, it turns out, is not the real Dr. Wernher, but, instead, is an imposter put there by an evil outside power that wants to destroy the spaceship. The crew take off from the space station for the Moon, but Bill begins to suspect that Dr. Wernher is an imposter when he doesn’t know… who the Brooklyn Dodgers are! (well, actually, the fact that they moved to L.A. long before 1970 might have something to do with that). Bill’s suspicion is confirmed when the imposter Dr. Wernher attacks him and they struggle. Bill wins the fight and ends up tying up the spy. During the struggle, the lunar orbiter was knocked off course, so Bright Eyes is forced to land on the Dark Side of the Moon (typical woman driver… What? That was not a sexist remark! Ouch!! You don’t have to hit me!). Bill recruits the spy to help him set up an antenna array a number of miles from the ship so that they can contact Earth and the evil spy is accidentally killed when he falls off the hill on which they put the array (which solved two problems at once). Bill returns to the ship and they are able to contact the space station. Because they don’t have enough power to launch, the higher-ups back at the station declare them the first Moon Base and will send them an unmanned supply ship for provisions. And, because a man and woman living together is frowned upon by SPACOM (aka Space Command), Bill and Bright Eyes are asked to get married, which they do in an extremely long-distance ceremony. "