The Camper van Beethoven album "Telephone Free Landslide Victory" is one of those albums I've purchased at least three different times on various formats. I kept loaning it out and never getting it back; I just could not hang on to a copy of that record to save my life. And then the record mysteriously called "II & III," I could never find on CD. So I was overjoyed to hear that a box set was being released. The set includes the above albums along with the self-titled third album, the collection of outtakes and b-sides released as "Camper Vantiquities" in 1993 and a live album called "Greatest Hits Played Faster." The live album was the only thing I hadn't previously heard, and it was a bit of a letdown. No banter or anything like that, and the live sound is just about identical to the studio sound. Too pristine, too impersonal. It sure would have been nice of them to throw in a show from the earlier days or maybe some interviews or something. The sixteen pages worth of liner notes are typical "I saw these guys so many drunken nights back in the day..." crap. But there are some good photos to be had. So I say this box set is worth the thirty bucks, but I wouldn't break my back trying to get a copy. Besides, everyone who's anyone knows that the Monks of Doom (the subset/side project featuring all of CVB except David Lowery) is the superior outfit by a mile. SpinArt , by the way, is emerging as one hell of a record label. They kinda came out of nowhere as near as I can tell, and now they've got a formidable stable of bands: The Apples in Stereo, Frank Black, Eyes Adrift (new Curt Kirkwood band), PosterChildren. Look for great things to come from this label.