A Budget Box Fit for a King or Queen (UPDATED)

UPDATE (8/8 – 3:21 p.m.):

Rats! Eagle-eyed reader Jason Michael points out that the Amazon U.K. listing now offers for you to “sign up to learn when this title will be available.” When it comes back, here’s hoping the price is as good as it was!

Original post: Here’s an incredibly interesting deal from Sony’s U.K. budget arm: a rather thorough box set celebrating classic albums from merry old England!

It’s been a good year for queen and country. There was the Silver Jubilee in spring. This summer’s seen the 2012 Olympics hosted in London, with the host nation currently in third place for an overall medal count with 48 (22 of them gold). Then there’s been some great catalogue work by U.K. labels: Edsel‘s expanded editions of albums by Everything But the Girl, Sugar, The Beat and countless others; U.K.-exclusive box set editions of INXS’ Kick and The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols; and let’s not forget our reissue-loving pals at Super Deluxe Edition!

In that tradition comes Great British Albums, a PopMarket-esque box of 20 classic LPs on the Sony roster that were recorded by U.K. greats. While they’re modestly packaged – the lidded box contains all discs in CD wallet-sized reproductions of the original album sleeves – and don’t contain any bonus tracks, here’s the awesome catch for locals: on Amazon U.K., the price as of this writing is currently £5.05. (In the U.S., the set retails for about $67, which for the value of the set could be a lot worse.

To use a local phrase, what a bloody good deal! Great British Albums is out August 20; hit the jump to find out what’s inside!

Various Artists, Great British Albums (Sony Music CMG (U.K.), 2012)

1. Fleetwood Mac, Mr. Wonderful (Blue Horizon 7-63205, 1968)
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus (Island ILPS 9155, 1971)
3. Mott The Hoople, All the Young Dudes (CBS 65184, 1972)
4. Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow (Epic 69117, 1975)
5. The Only Ones, The Only Ones (CBS 82830, 1978)
6. The Clash, London Calling (CBS CLASH 3, 1979)
7. John Cooper Clarke, Snap, Crackle & Bop (Epic 84083, 1980)
8. The Psychedelic Furs, The Psychedelic Furs (CBS 84084, 1980)
9. Judas Priest, British Steel (CBS 84160, 1980)
10. Adam & The Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier (CBS 84549, 1980)
11. Big Audio Dynamite, This is Big Audio Dynamite (CBS 26714, 1985)
12. Prefab Sprout, Steve McQueen (Kitchenware KWLP3, 1985)
13. Deacon Blue, Raintown (CBS 450549, 1987)
14. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (Silvertone ORE LP 502, 1989)
15. Primal Scream, Screamadelica (Creation CRELP 076, 1991)
16. Manic Street Preachers, Everything Must Go (Epic 483930, 1996)
17. Faithless, No Roots (Cheeky/BMG 82876 61077-2, 2004)
18. Kasabian, Empire (Paradise/Columbia PARADISE37, 2006)
19. Mark Ronson, Version (Sony BMG 88697 08003-2, 2007)
20. The Vaccines, What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? (Columbia 88697 84145-2, 2011)