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ast holiday season, the economy careened like a runaway train bound for Hades. You might have expected the box set to be the first thing jettisoned by the recording industry to lighten the load. Guess again. The box set is back: bigger, boxier and pricier than ever. Of course, there’s the new four-disc Elvis 75: Good Rockin’ Tonight (Legacy/BMG) and the Beatles 14-CD stereo box set (grab a 10-disc mono edition if you get the chance). But the most ostentatious is Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box (Sony Classical), a 90-CD career retrospective housed in a wood case and accompanied by a 312-page hardbound book. Just two of the discs sport previously unreleased material by the award-winning cellist. The price tag: a hefty $798.98. One of the coolest anthologies is AC/DC’s Backtracks (Legacy/BMG), featuring two CDs of studio and live rarities and a DVD packed with rare videos. The price: $39.98. Or you can drop $179 on the deluxe edition that includes three discs, a rarities LP, a coffee-table book, memorabilia reproductions and a working guitar amp. That’s 12 pounds of heavy-metal thunder! Or how about the 11-CD Chansons Annees (Mercury Im-
port), gathering the recorded works of French film star Brigitte Bardot. The 1960s sex kitten had a string of pop hits as well as a number of recordings made with the legendary singer/ songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. It’ll cost you a C-note and some change. Even German industrial-metal band Rammstein is getting into the act. The deluxe edition of the band’s sixth album, Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da, arrives in a metal flight case replete with bonus CD, six sex toys (numbered to represent each band member), handcuffs and lubricant. The provocative collector’s item costs around $400. Country and roots music fans might appreciate the three-CD Ninety Yo-Yo Ma CDs Hank Williams for someone you Revealed: The love, or one Yo-Yo Unreleased Redisc for 90 of cordings (Time/ your friends... Life), delivering 50 songs— including talking blues— culled from an intimate 1951 radio show. It’s the second installment in a three volume series that is preserving this long-lost treasure trove of 143 songs total. Roots-rock fans, as well as lov- 21 >