And so we come to Minotaur, a boxset of Pixies albums that we all probably already own, with no remastering done to them, and no new tracks, and a price tag in the hundreds of dollars. Yes, hundreds.

The Pixies' blasted mix of surf-pop-punk, coupled with Frank Black's twisted lyrical preoccupations (UFOs, classical mythology, Old Testament horror stories), created something dark and twisted ...