Music box sets gift guide

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November 5, 2012

The box set, one of the digitally transformed music industry’s last tangible treasures, has become 
even more tactile with the growing trends of vinyl and complete-output collections. USA TODAY’s Edna Gundersen, Elysa Gardner and Brian Mansfield sample this year’s batch.

The Beatles catalog (EMI, 14 LPs, $400) The band’s remastered studio albums, released on CD in 2009 and digitally in 2010, finally make their vinyl debut, individually or in this limited-edition box with a 252-page hardback book that holds many images not included in the CD booklets.