>I bought all of the Elvis Costello albums for the *first* time on the last
> wave of reissues, and I haven't regretted it since.

Me too... personally it was just to get the albums on CD. The bonus tracks 
are usually never absolutely essential so ol' declan can keep on unearthing 
'em as only the seriously diehard fan will bother the original demo of 
"Alison" recorded in the toilet of the office he was working at all those 
years ago or whatever it was....

What really gets me is that there always seems to be new label ready and 
willing to launch a whole new reissue program in the 1st place without any 
reservations about it being a saturated EC reissues market....i mean c'mon.