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"Mere days after revealing they were reissuing Radiohead&amp;apos;s CD singles as 12&amp;apos;&amp;apos; vinyl, Capitol/EMI announced yesterday that they would also re-release Radiohead&amp;apos;s first three album as 2-CD and 2-CD/1-DVD sets. The new sets for Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer are Capitol&amp;apos;s latest attempt to profit off Radiohead after the band fled from the label in 2007. While it&amp;apos;s easy to accuse Capitol of milking the cash cow once again, these sets are pretty comprehensive, compiling most of the band&amp;apos;s B-sides from that era onto their respective discs and throwing in some live tracks. However, the sets boast no previously unreleased material. All three albums are due out March 24th.\r\n&amp;#xA0;\r\nAdditionally, the &amp;quot;Special Collectors Editions&amp;quot; will include a DVD featuring all the band&amp;apos;s music videos from the respective album, plus television performances from the era and one full concert, a May 27th, 1994 show from London&amp;apos;s Astoria. Unfortunately, to obtain the entire live performance of the Astoria concert, you&amp;apos;d have to buy both the &amp;quot;Special&amp;quot; Pablo and Bends, as the concert bridges both DVDs. Or you could just buy that Radiohead: Live at the Astoria DVD that came out in 2005 but has been around in VHS form since 1995. And to get all the band&amp;apos;s music videos, you could just buy the Radiohead: The Best Of DVD that Capitol released just this past June.\r\nFor those just now discovering the Radiohead catalog, these sets probably beat simply buying the old, bare-bones version of OK Computer, as new fans won&amp;apos;t have to scramble through import singles and message boards to collate all the band&amp;apos;s B-sides. For the diehards, however, the sets simply represent stuffing a bunch of music everyone already has into one neat box. The sets could have featured studio versions of songs like &amp;quot;Lift,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Big Boots&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;True Love Waits,&amp;quot; tracks fans have clamored for for years, but instead it&amp;apos;s another missed opportunity.\r\nRelated Stories:\r\n&amp;#x2022; Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel Help Vinyl Sales Almost Double In 2008 &amp;#x2022; Radiohead Light Up All Points West With Two Headlining Performances &amp;#x2022; Radiohead Say Goodbye to EMI, Hello to ATO?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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