Available with this listing is the 1986 Columbia Records 3-CD Deluxe Edition Boxed-Set release of “Live/1975-85”  by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The discs, cases (with the exception of the front cover of the case for Disc 2, which shows significant rubbing damage), and the insert book are in near-mint to mint condition. The outer box, which conforms to the dimensions of a vinyl long-playing album, shows notable shelf-wear but is intact and in moderately good shape, although it has been triaged with black electrician’s tape in a few spots. PLEASE NOTE: The slight speckling on the photos of the discs are from my scanner bed. They are NOT on the discs themselves.

“Live/1975-85” is a live album by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, consisting of 40 tracks recorded at various concerts between 1975 and 1985, and released as a box set by Columbia Records on November 10, 1986. It broke the record for advance orders, and, according to RIAA certification, is the second-best-selling live album in the US. Rolling Stone hailed it as “an embarrassment of riches”, while The New York Times said it was “an unprecedented event in popular recording” and “monumental”.

The album debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart, a then-rare occurrence that hadn't happened since Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” in 1976. “Live 1975-85” also became the first five-record set to reach the Top 10, and the first to sell over a million copies. It was released as a box set of five vinyl records, three cassettes, or three CDs.

Being both long-awaited and highly anticipated, the album generated advance orders of more than 1.5 million copies, making it the larges dollar-value pre-order at the time. Despite some record stores opening early, they were still confronted with lines of fans. “We’re selling them as fast as we can get them out of the box,” said Don Bergentry, a New York retailer, adding, “This is the biggest thing I have ever seen in records.”

“Live/1975-85” is the second-best-selling live album in US history based on RIAA certification, which puts it at 13× platinum, trailing only Garth Brooks’ “Double Live”. The box set’s sales performance attracted considerable media attention at the time, immediately for setting records during the 1986 holiday shopping period, and subsequently for the sharp drop-off in sales in early 1987, leaving many retailers overstocked.

Two singles were released: “War” (a cover of the 1970 Edwin Starr hit), which reached No. 8 on the US pop singles chart, and “Fire” (a Springsteen song that was a top 10 hit for The Pointer Sisters in 1979), which only reached No. 46, breaking Springsteen’s string of eight consecutive Top 10 singles. Two non-album tracks — “Incident on 57th Street”, recorded at Nassau Coliseum in December 1980, and “For You”, taken from the July 1978 Roxy show – materialized on B-sides from the album’s singles, and on a Japanese release, “Live Collection”. The music video for “War” was taken from the concert where it was recorded, while the video for “Fire” was from a completely unrelated 1986 acoustic performance at a Bridge School Benefit concert. A third video, for “Born to Run”, was also released, which showed a melange of clips from the band’s 1984–85 “Born in the U.S.A.” Tour.