I have to respond to the review that states this collection is a casualty of the loudness wars. I disagree. It's possible the songs are more heavily compressed than earlier versions. From what I've seen and heard, most remastered audio is louder than the old vinyl releases. But I've opened several of the songs in Sound Forge and they have a pretty dramatic dynamic range. Nor are they pushed so hard that they're distorted. Most of the reviews praise the audio quality. I have to agree.I never listened to Public Image when these recordings were current and I was buying records by many of their contemporaries, probably because I detested The Sex Pistols. That was a mistake. I first heard a few of their songs on a greatest hits collection that I bought about 15 years ago. The songs were more enjoyable than I'd expected but not so interesting that I wanted to hear more. A friend recently posted a link to "Albatross", from Metal Box, and I thought this is more like it. I listened to Flowers of Romance and decided I needed to hear more. Since PiL's first few albums are here almost in their entirety and Metal Box seems out of print, it was cheaper to buy this collection than hunting down the original albums. What I prefer in their repertoire are the more experimental songs, which are well represented in this box set. It seems more like Lydon's selection than Virgin's.I'm giving a 5-star review because I find this to be an excellent collection of PiL's work from their Virgin years, having several of the albums almost in their entirety plus a few alternate versions. Still not my favorite band but one of the more interesting groups from that era that I missed at the time.