I find boxsets increasingly valuable, especially if they're well done with good liners. The first box set I ever got was the Led Zeppelin 4 CD set from way back in 1990. It had unreleased songs and a great sequence to the individual tracks. I listened to it nonstop for a while and was hooked on box sets immediately after that. The first jazz box I got was probably the Moncur Mosaic Select, which hooked me on their reissues. I definitely prefer CD boxsets over LP. Space issues and just overall accessibility of the box set lends itself to CDs better for my uses. 

Books and CD’s were the first thing we packed — about 50 cubic feet of boxes, iirc.  And that was AFTER we donated or sold off 20 cubic feet (combined) of books and CD’s. I only have about 200 LP’s (if that even) — and of those, only about 50 are ones I especially wanted to keep (but I’m probably gonna wait to get to Pittsburgh before I thin out the LP’s — mostly in the interest of time).

Yeah I’m really curious how they sounded together. Thats Ayler with Tranes rhythm section right? With Ali on drums? That could definitely work. Who buys that stuff? Trane newcomers that are misleaded they actuallly get the best of?

My first box was the Complete BN Art Blakey 1960 set. These days, I usually rip the discs to MP3 and put them on my phone. Then I make playlists of the original albums. I prefer to listen to the music as it was originally sequenced (assuming it's music from the LP era or later).