...and when I tried to buy some it said that the availability 'changed' while I was trying to get the songs. Trying again, it said that the songs were not available in the UK. Is this a US only thing?

Peter

I listened to samples of every song and all of these "rare" versions show up on either the Peel Sessions disc or other various bootlegs. The quality doesn't seem improved. For example, the song What's The World is the exact same version from the EP disc that came out with Work is a Four Letter Word. Some Girls are Bigger than Others came out on the Sandie Shaw 2 Disc EP set.

The only thing I didn't seem to have was the studio version of Draize Train. That was interesting and I've never heard that. The live version of course is on Rank.

"Or how was a bootlegger able to fool not one but three of the most reliable digital retailers in the business?"

i doubt whoever started this up - if it was a bootlegger - had to fool all three. they probably fooled one, and in turn, it was the one the other retailers use.

Notice that on Amazon.com it's listed as being available on CD too, but when you click into it it takes you to a completely different CD.

So, what is the full track list for this piece of crap... oh, I mean "Rare" collection?
thetexasbloke

And nearly twice as many solo ones are at www.myspace.com/morrisseysavedourlives.

Excellent quality (still mp3, sorry lossless geeks) and I've yet to find ANYWHERE else where this much music is presented this cohesively.

Some are easily found on the net, others not so much. Hope this helps.

So drop by...but only if you want to.

This is great! Just got my downloads from Rhapsody. There were 22 new songs! :)

Why wouls Warner just put one unknown album up? They wouldn't. Their is something wrong about this. I think it just got put up somehow, believe it or not it is not vbery hard to get stuff up on itunes. You can just go throgh one of these on-line publishing companies.

So Mike Joyce gets how much per download then?

Don't support him.

This re-working of a compilation has made its way to iTunes Australia.

Sadly, when I attempted to buy them I was given an error message stating they are no longer available.

Maybe crooked music executives were attempting to sell them outside of the UK and were found out. What is strange is that they are still able to be found on iTunes, just not purchased.

Which film is the photograph on the cover from? Thanks.

Why would this somewhat random CD be up but not the rest of their catalouge. Usually, the more obvious stuff, meaning stuff that has already publishjed get's put on itunes and amazon first for digital purchase.

I find it hard to believe Warner would put this up as the introduction to itunes. Aslo, their is usually a press release when a major band like The Smiths releases their stuff on-line on itunes.

This reeks of a bootleg. And, it not ahrd to get stuff on itunes. I am a musician and played on album, we got it on itunes in three days. You just pay an online publishing company a small fee, itunes pays them and they pay you.

Someone just created this and published it. Look how shitty the cover-art is. It looks like a someone using photoshop to make a faux Smiths cover.

Also, I would just like to say Morrissey/Marr and their management has mishanlded their back catalauge. Why is it not on itunes? Why are most of their albums not in major chains?

Marr admited in a recent interview that their stuff was being handled poorly. This is yet another exemplification of that reality.

Listen to the 'Money Changes Everything' sample on Amazon. You can hear that it's a vinyl recording. LOL!

Does anyone remember, or know the band that does a song where the singer sounds quite a bit like Morrissey and the song chorus says "Boys Boys Boys"...sorta dark and gothy like? I can't remember, and I want to hear those songs again...

I thought they were called the Boys, but that's hard to look up...sooo many....Do they have an album?

Thanks... MP

Dude, those tracks are kinda lame. The Smiths don't rock, man. I just don't dig them. Just listen to "Wonderful Woman". It sucks.

The Smiths don't kick ass. Morrissey solo are so much more, like, cool!

theUShillbillybloke

All on Vinyl and CD....some good songs there for sure if you don't already have them...plus at 7.99...it can't be beat....

http://www.gigwise.com/news/43962/new-smiths-album -containing-rarities-appears-online

All the tracks from "Rare" seem to have been taken off the UK itunes. They must have found them to be bootlegs, they'll probably come off the other sites soon.

about this age now.
Long hair on men is cool.
They do say what goes round comes round and I think kids today are reliving 70's rock
led zeppelin, deep purple, black sabbath, pink floyd.
I know my daughter wears a led zeppelin t shirt only cos shes heard the music from her mum..she'll be posting ian gillan on the wall next.
My point is...good music never dies it just
lives again and again
smoke on the water.

I miss him already.