I was ready to
plop down the 60
dollars the
comic book store was asking for this little
relic, since it had been so heavily hyped to me by fellow
Evangleion fans. After "sampling" it on
MP3, I'm glad I saved my money. I'm a huge fan of the
music from
Evangelion, but this collection is basically comprised of tracks found on the other CDs in the
Eva musical canon, plus reduced forms of some of the background scores (recordings of the songs with only certain instruments playing, for example, or slightly accelerated or decelerated versions that never appeared in the actual series). Although perhaps it has some
esoteric value for being so rare and obscure, the money would be better spent buying
Evangelion VOX,
Evangelion Refrain, and the
Death and Rebirth and
End of Eva soundtracks (in addition to the three
OSTs, of course).
Don't get me wrong; I spent a great deal of money getting random Eva merchandise, just to do it (I even purchased a copy of the S2 works after deciding it wasn't worth the money). Be warned, however, that this collection has very little intrinsic value compared to the rest of the CDs available (sidestepping, for the moment, the argument that no music has intrinsic value).