Box sets. Super deluxe editions. Reissues. Whatever you want to call them, it is the season for record companies to give consumers the opportunity to spend their hard-earned cash on previously issued material in new formats, usually buttressed by music you haven’t heard or at least haven’t heard in this particular form. Reissues are cash cows, designed to extract additional money from people who have already purchased the same music multiple times already: LP or cassette, then CD, then some digital format, then maybe you bought the record again after you sold your vinyl in favor of CDs.

But then it gets complicated. There’s the 10th anniversary remastered CD; some time after that, it’s the new and revolutionary format that will soon become outdated or forgotten (anyone remember SACD? Or h

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