Release the Nirvana box set

It is high time you stopped propping your never-was music and film career with the urn of a dead person. The millions of Nirvana fans want something very simple: To hear the music that Kurt Cobain performed that we haven't had the privelege to hear yet. We realize that there is a little more to it than just pressing a CD, shrinkwrapping it, and putting it on the shelf, but it has become a travesty to common decency with the way that you are acting. Your posturing that you should have the sole rights to Nirvana's music is utterly ridiculous (not to mention your constant shouts of gender discrimination against you), and all but a handful of "the blind devoted" can see that this is just you trying to make a buck. You married into the genius of Kurt Cobain and the money he made, and continues to make even in death. And that is the full extent to which you are involved with Nirvana! (except perhaps a lyric here or song title there). No matter what Kurt thought of Krist or Dave at the time of his death, and even if Nirvana was breaking up anyway, Krist and Dave were a part of Nirvana. Krist and Dave spent the better part of many years of their life composing (mostly Kurt), rehearsing, recording, and playing music with Kurt Cobain as the band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was not a one man band. Kurt Cobain was the creative force, but he didn't play the drums or bass on stage. And you say that Krist and Dave could have been replaced; perhaps musically they could have. But it wasn't "Kurt Cobain and the Nirvanas", it was "Nirvana", plain and simple. They were as much a part of the BAND as Kurt was, because everyone in a BAND has a role; Kurt was the guitar player, singer, and songwriter. Dave played drums and sang backup. Krist played bass. It was a BAND.

But I think I've provided adequate support for my point, along with letting my emotions play into this a little too much. But that is what Nirvana does to the true fans...they weren't "just another band", just another product to be consumed. The world didn't cry for Shannon Hoon, but we did for Kurt. Nothing personal towards Mr. Hoon.

But who did or didn't do what is irrelevant, Courtney. All we Nirvana fans want is the music. The chance to hear the outtakes and b-sides and throwaways without having to buy an 8th generation Italian bootleg for $35. The chance to see all those professionally shot, multicamera videos rotting away in the vaults of various MTV studios, Interscope Records, and TV stations around the world, instead of 8th generation VHS copies of a guy who somehow managed to smuggle a camcorder into the pit. We, as fans, WANT to give Krist, and Dave, and hell even YOU the money out of our pockets, if that's what it takes, to hear the songs and see the videos.

Maybe it's about the music for you too, Courtney, though it doesn't seem that way. Maybe it's about the money, since it seems that you simply want total financial control of Nirvana for your own gains, despite the fact that you're pretty well off. Maybe it's about some ideology. Maybe it's about something else. I don't know. I don't WANT to know. I want to blow $150 on a super duper deluxe Nirvana boxset with tons of stuff that as a long time collector I have heard and seen, and tons of stuff I HAVEN'T heard or seen. If you need any recommendations as to what to put in it, send me an email and I'll gladly talk to you, or whomever I need to.

I just turned 20 years old. Time is running out before I have to start purchasing diapers and mortgages and fiber and Rogaine and living wills. Time is running out for me to be able to purchase extravagant rock and roll boxsets. Don't make us Nirvana fans wait 30 years, like the Beatles fans did. Don't be Yoko Ono. Be Janie Hendrix! If Pearl Jam can release 72 live soundboard recordings from the same year, the same tour, for the sole purpose of preventing the fans from having to buy substandard $35 bootlegs that no one even remotely connected to the band would see a penny of, then why can't Nirvana do the same thing?

I've gone on far too long and probably have diluted my point to the state of redundancy. If you are somehow psychic, please just scroll down and read this paragraph, because it is by far the most important one. Please give us the music Courtney, please. I'm begging you, the Nirvana community is begging you. Set aside whatever difference you have with Krist and Dave, and get the box set released. Please.