On the one hand, I can see the frustration many of you must be feeling about this. Many of you have worked for years building your U2 collections and somewhat justifiably feel ripped off by not being able to download the rare tunes individually. I can understand that...
On the other hand, itunes generally offers songs at $.99/each, and single albums with more than 10 songs are often $9.99, which other than major releases during their first week of sale at Best Buy, is cheaper than you'd pay in a store. Then on top of that, this particular collection is priced at about $.34/song, which is dirt cheap. If they released the 2 live concerts separately each on 2 -disc sets, and the rarities on another 2 disc-set, this would end up costing at least $20/pop and equal $60 (even those of you that own bootleg copies would likely cave in and purchase these). Then make up a soundtracks disc for say $12, and HTDAAB at $12 and you're already shelling out $84. I mnean, it looks to me like other than more live recordings - of which there seem to be an awful lot of in the set - there just isn't much more stuff they could include to entrice the diehard. And those of you who already have everything have clearly been dogged in your pursuit and resourceful in your desire to accumulate everything. A little more of the same will easily land you the tracks you're after. I am SURE you'll all have them soon enough.
Then again, I'm in a totally different position. I loved U2 20 years ago, up through around 1989, and then my interest in them dropped off a bit(though of course not completely), only to now be re-awakened by this new album. I had all of their albums except Zooropa and Pop at some point or another, but over the years my copies of October, War, Wide Awake, Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum vanished. To me, the opportunity to get back all my old U2 albums along with dozens of live cuts, rarities, remixes, etc. for only $150 is a cheap ticket back to the soundtrack of my life 15-20 years ago along with a new soundtrack to go along with what's happening now.