For those interested...

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and a snip from the announcement:

As we enter our 14th year of the Dave's Picks series, heading into Volumes 53-56 in 2025, most days we feel we're just getting started. Every volume of the series is still just as exciting for us as the first few releases in the series back in 2012, and we hope you continue to get as much joy out of listening to them as we get from producing them. One of the greatest thrills we get from working on them is the flexibility to go where the music takes us in making the selections. For 2025, Volume 53 has been selected and is in the can...
(The first has been announced: .Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH (10/2/76))

if interested wander over to dead.net for more info etc.

so so so fucking glad i'm not a completist of the grateful dead, i'd have to get a second mortgage.

oh, its easy.

I feel most of their sets are reasonable priced compared to other CD sets. Now having the space for all these is a whole other issue.

Have to agree with all of that...with notable exception of Jethro Tull, the Dead give an exceptional value...and for this past years Big Box Set, they released it same month as they had some stackable discounts which brought the price down by about $50.

oh, it's not about the money, as godscomic said, it's about where in fuck do you put it all?