The Boss is the Bo$$

Perhaps the only the bad thing is to now expect hearing something in a corny commercial ad nauseum.

Cool story artemus.

The early albums aren't the best in SQ, but after weeding a few copies of Darkness, I've got a "stamper" level that's a great demo LP. Easy cheap bin find.

Candy's Room, Streets of Fire, Darkness on the Edge of Town at  full throttle on SOTA is an experience.

"As to his recorded material most of it was a mess as far as sound goes. Too bright for the most part."

jfd11- agreed. If you're into LP's it's worth sifting thru the bins and finding an early press, since Springsteen's earlier stuff isn't in demand-cheap.

Pulled out E Street Shuffle and Greetings which hasn't seen daylight in ages. To my surprise, not bad. That's after getting several copies 3-5.

Can you imagine, Bruce may  now have to have his team get permission to play "Rosalita" ?

"I assume there are many things in the contract but I bet there are at least 2. He cannot record for release any song in the contract and he can still perform any song live for no or low charge."

ibmjunkman-That would be one interesting contract to actually read the "fine print."

Sell your catalog, now you need permission from the new "owner" to perform it?

For HALF A BILLION dollars, doesn't seem like much of  an inconvenience.

"Then I put on the Springsteen Magic album to test a really bad sounding album. It was so sludgy, "

gpgr4blu- Too bad you didn't bring a good copy of Springsteen's "Darkness" to experience on that Tech Das. "Streets of Fire" would have been mid blowing.

Springsteen music is generally too busy to begin with to be audiophool SQ. One can only hope for a pressing that stands out from the rest. Once Bruce became part of  MTV  and was "Dancing in the Dark" I gave up on him.

"I'm ordering the table and arm. You can bet Darkness will get a workout."

gpgr4blu- Congratulations. The times I've heard a Techdas , it's was a WOW experience.

Enjoy it. 

Springsteen's music can be "busy"-lot going on. Even the "best" pressing will reveal the shortcomings of the recording. Best heard on something like you're getting!

"I guess all of you Springsteen bashers are much better song writers than Bruce."

Tough crowd in here, tglib.

I  could care less about an artists personal beliefs, as it seems to bother some.

Springsteen did a heck of a lot better than ZZ Top with their measly 50 million. 

David Bowie's camp didn't do too bad...