That seems like a bloody good bargain to me. Was tempted to buy it last summer but the cheapest I could see it for was nigh on £40.00. I might check again. Recently I popped into a record fair in Lichfield and picked up the boxset of the complete recordings of Miles Davis and Gil Evans that was being offered for £25.00. I had the money in my pocket but was just about to go on holiday and thought it a touch extravagant. I went and did my errands, came back, picked it up, fumbled about for a few minutes and still didnt buy it. Anyone who knows me will know that it is completely out of character for me to do that. Amazon are selling same item for more than £55.00. Now I feel like a fool.
Anyway on boxsets I love them - I have around about a dozen which I guess is not a fantastic amount. Most recent was the Fela boxset - 26 cd's and 1 dvd for a measley £70.00. Money well spent even if I have only played about 9 of the cd's so far. And very good they are too!!
My personal favourite is the Richard Thompson Watching the Dark cd which included quite a bit orf rare stuff and different live versions.

was the 13th floor elevators complete singles box set - 45rpm singles, each one in different fluorescent plastic.

I still wish I hadn't listened to the little voice that said "sure it's nice but you don't even have a working record player".

I don't usually pay full price for them though, most of them come down eventually. I've got The Jam 'Direction...' set, The Byrds 'There Is A Season', The Cure 'Join The Dots', Madness 'The Business', Tom Petty 'Playback', Marc Bolan 'A Wizard A True Star', the 2 recent Robyn Hitchcock sets, the Travelling Wilburys, the new Smiths one, Dylan 'Biograph' and album collections by Springsteen, Cohen and Simon&Garfunkel. I think I dip into them as much as any of the cds on my shelves, but I probably get them out for a look more often. Nice items.

I like them if they're good value. I'm not really that interested in loads of extra or "rare" tracks but when they collect a bands recorded output like The Jam's superb Direction.. set, it's a must, especially with the book detailing the discogrphy, every tour date etc.
I've also bought the Psychedelic Furs Classic Album set - 5 albums for £12 and the Simon and Garfunkel set which was in the 2 for £15 section in Tesco's a few years back. I was buying an cd for £10 as a present anyway, so an extra £5 for 5 cd's and a DVD seemed like a steal.

James Brown - Star Time (90% of what you need by the great man)
The Who - Maximum R & B (not definitive, but great fun - not least because of the way it begins..)
Jake Thackray - Jake In A Box (great name, great value)
Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom (worth it for the first disc alone)
The two Nuggets boxes, the Tougher Than Tough set, the first Dylan Bootleg Series, the first Motown Hitsville set (again, not definitive but some nice obscurities). The Stones London (ie Decca)Singles Collection was brilliant.

And I used to have "Shine On", which was fun to look at but the most impractical way of having those albums imaginable.

Christmas for about 5 years when I worked at HMV. Back then I had spare time to sit through a whole day's worth of Lou Reed.

The reality, though, is that I finally got around to listenening to them when I didn't have the time. So I dusted them down, ripped them on to the Mac and now a track will pop up randomly on shuffle.

I sold the boxsets on Amazon and ebay in the end.

Here's just a few of mine:

But the only cd set I bought was Bruce Springsteen 73 - 84 from HMV for £16. Seven albums at that price was too good to pass up and I would never have bought them individually. I'm not interested in extra tracks or alternative takes, I just want the album as it was released.

...and have about 30 of them - several of which are mentioned above (Star Time is a particular fave). They've almost all been acquired form Fopp or Ebay at bargain prices, as I hardly ever buy full priced stuff.

One that hasn't been mentioned that I particularly recommend is the Buffalo Springfield one - perhaps the only occasion when I've thoroughly enjoyed the subtle differences of multiple versions of the same thing.

If the truth be told, most of them haven't been played all the way through. I get bored with most people if their CDs are over an hour, so 5 hours of almost anyone is way too much.

...otherwise-unavailable stuff (Sound + Vision, Compact 2 Tone Story, Thirty Years of Maximum R & B, etc), but now I only buy them if they offer an exceptionally good deal.

Whoever came up with the idea for the £100 boxsets which the record companies currently seem keen to rip us off with can f*ck RIGHT off.

but I don't go for those extravagant £100+ ones with free posters, the same music on both vinyl and CD, replica ticket stubs, badges, shoe horns etc

If it's music by an artist(s) I like, all housed in one box with a half-decent price I'll go for it. Therefore, I have these:

Nuggets 1
Nuggets 2
Nuggets 3 (Children of)
San Francisco Nuggets
LA Nuggets
[yes, I like nuggets]
Girl Group's Hat Box thingy
Beatles in Mono
Bee Gees (first 3 60s albums)
Back To Mono (Phil Spector)
Big Star, Keep An Eye On The Sky
Leonard Cohen Complete Studio Albums

The traditional 'bumper bargain bucket collection of tracks' set and the newer 'super deluxe reissue of an album with a scarf and a marble' sets.

The former is a useful way of catching up with an artists work, the latter seems an expensive indulgence.

Which was released towards the end of last year. It is ridiculously good.

is the best box set ever produced.

In 1978 I bought a wrongly priced boxed set of "The Complete Buddy Holly" (it only cost me £8.99 instead of the asking price of £20).I spent almost 6 hours listening to it straight through. I never played it again.

Marc Bolan/T.Rex - 20th Century Superstar
Faces - 5 Guys Walk Into A Bar
Iron Maiden - First 10 Years (20 x 12" Singles)
Jam - Direction, Reaction, Creation
Led Zeppelin - Remasters
Ozzy Osbourne - Prince Of Darkness
Sex Pistols - Sex Box
Slade - Anthology
Factory Records - Communications 1978-92

All have been played through at least once.

Do they still get played?
Slade & Factory Records are the only two which get regularly re-visited.
Of the others, I have virtually all the tracks on other CDs so feel no need to unpack the box set

just before Christmas I saw 5 copies of 'The Beatles in Mono' or £80 in the Bedford branch of computer exchange. Mine cost £200 :-(

Nuggets
Acid Drops, Space Dust and Flying Saucers
Anthems in Eden
King Crimson 4CD live
Police - complete works
XTC - Cloak of Many Cupboards
The Carthy Chronicles
RT
The Watersons
Sandy Denny
both Genesis Archives

Some of these are heavy going; some are a delight and get repeated listens. You can probably work out which. Which is much like the rest of my CD collection really - no distinction to be drawn.

being sniffy and superior, don't believe that.
Anyway, sad anti-music lover that I am, I love a good well packaged box set (thank god for Rhino). I have far too many but if I had to choose (can I have two ?), it would have to be the Beg, Scream and Shout set of 60's soul and the can you dig it 70's soul experience...Brilliant music , perfectly packaged and listened to more than once. Well worth the expense.

and am constantly tempted to buy more.
At the moment, I have

Back to Mono
Chess Box - Howlin Wolf
The Master - Marvin Gaye
Wierd Tales - Ramones
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Pet Sounds Sessions
Byrds 'Season'
Hank Williams 'Unreleased'
Cream 'Those were the Days'
Jerry Lee 'Sun essentials'
Elektra - "forever changes'
Lee Perry 'Upsetter'
Fairport 'Live at BBC'
John Martyn 'No SAint'
Orbison - 'Soul of r n r'
RT 'Life and imes'
Beefheart - 'grow fins'
Dylan 'Biographies'
Carter Family
Dino, Nat King, Charlie Pride, Fats, Hank 111

As I say, I love them.
Off to find cheap copy of Buffalo Springfield following good reviews above.

is that if you want to play something you have to open up the fucking box and find the CD, which always has exactly the same design on the label with a tiny number somewhere that you can hardly read. then when you put it away again you don't just slip it into its jewel case, you have to fiddle around with the internal stuff in the box etc.

Steely Dan had the right idea with Citizen, ie 4 separate CDs with their own jewel cases, but much as I love the music they weren't in album order which is important for us Dan boffins.

I think they're best when you feel like a big session with someone, you sit down and listen and read the booklet and look at the lyrics etc. Like, a TOTAL EXPERIENCE man.

Not that I ever have time for that but I do like the idea.

I've got quite a few of the Miles Davis ones - didn't pay full price for any of those, and I last saw the Miles Davis/Gil Evans one at £15 in HMV before Xmas.

I agree that they can be a footer to open up. I ripped them all to iTunes and set up a playlist for each one and a dynamic playlist for "All Box Set Tracks Not Yet Played".

One of my favourites was a Rhino Rock & Roll Collection - Loud, Fast & Out of Control".

I paid full price a couple of them when I was working in Newcastle on a stressful job and Spin Records had two great things to cheer me up, one at the start of the project and one at the end The Stooges - Complete Fun House Sessions and Beg, Scream & Shout - The Big Ol' box of 60s Soul

If you make the time to listen to them, they are a great investment - the Rhino ones are beautifully assembled. I'm not attracted by posters, badges, etc.

Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There; The Wall Live at Earls Court 1980-81
John Martyn Ain't No Saint A real smorgasbord with material from all his Island LPs plus unreleased material and live recordings. Beautifully packaged; the inner book is done in the style of a pulp paperback. Lovingly compiled by John Hillarby it is a thing of real beauty and a steal at just over 20 quid for 4 CDs
Joy Division Heart and Soul The 2 studio albums with all the singles plus rare stuff such the Ideal for Living EP
The equivalent New Order set, Retro, is nowhere near as good, unfortunately.

The last 2 have been on my hi-fi almost constantly for the last few weeks.

It was Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where The Time Goes, four vinyl LPs. It's the one I've listened to more than most that I've bought since, which includes Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley (neither of which I have any more). The David Bowie Sound & Vision set from about 1990 was pretty spectacular, and the complete Nick Drake is essential.

I've got getting on for about 100 - everything from Stax to the Grateful Dead, from Miles Davis to Judas Priest
Oh and loads of psych stuff - Nuggets, Mindrocker, Rubble, Sitars etc etc
I love 'em . . . !

Normally there's a book with them which is interesting to read whilst you're playing the CDs
With the exception of "Hot Rods & custom classics" which has some fluffy dice in it (well hot rods y'know) none of mine have got any gimmicks in them.
I like label retrospectives as well as band retrospectives - it gives you most everything you'd want in one handy package and there's always the chance you'll come across something that's new to you.

I bought the Alice Cooper Old School box, just shy of £150, couldn’t justfy it at the time, still can’t, but would do it again.

http://youtu.be/pFuPl-wv_AA

At the other end of the value table, I got a 5 disc box of David Thomas for £12, which is really rather good but the Simon and Garfunkel box of all their albums plus a DVD takes the prize by costing just £8.99.

Also have the first Alice box The Life and Crimes, various Springsteen one, the Born In The USA 12” single collection is in a box so can be counted, recall buying the Live 75 – 85 3 cd box on it’s release and it costing an absolute fortune. Although I was given the life size promotional Bruce that was in the shop to advertise the release.

Then there is The Johnny Cash American Recordings outtakes box, the Joy Division singles collection + - and some others I can’t think off.

But do theses count as box sets, released by the nice people who are ONEC records, a series of lathe cut records packaged in pizza boxes,

http://onec.greedbag.com/

Joy Division - Heart & Soul
New Order - Retro
Nuggets
The Jam - Direction, Reaction, Creation
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle
Cocteau Twins - From Lullabies to Violaine
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth / Collected Works
The Clash - On Broadway
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crystal Days

All of them are excellent, with the rather sad exception of Retro. I listen to tracks from all of them fairly regularly, but haven't sat and listened to any of them all the way through for ages.

New Order - Retro
Joy Division - Heart & Soul
Grateful Dead - So Many Roads
The Clash - On Broadway and the boxed Singles
Johnny Cash - Unearthed
Noir Desir - En Route Pour La Joie
the Springsteen BTR & Darkness sets
the Rhino Goth box (in a black leather corset thing!)
New Model Army - Anthology

and probably the best one I own is a bootleg anyway - Neil Young's Rock n Roll Cowboy

Yes - Yes Years - frankly not great - they are hardly prolific and the unreleased tracks are not in general up to much (in particular a dismal version of I'm Down).

Genesis - From One Fan(bootleg), Archives 1 (repeats much of From One Fan) is fine, Archives 2 isn't fine.

Jethro Tull - 25 Years - excellent.

VDGG - The Box - sold it!

Bruce - Live on vinyl - never play it
Bruce - Born To Run - felt I should buy it but unsure I've ever watched the DVD all the way through

MOJO's psych Saucers etc box - good selection, packaging disappointing