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They pop up every year and come out of the woodwork just before the holidays: those expansive and expensive collectors' packages that mine every corner of a musician's back catalog. The box set, says critic Tom Moon, is "a lavish production that's geared to the completist: someone who just has to have every last morsel of music from an artist." Here, Moon tells NPR's Melissa Block why three new collections are worth your attention.
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