I finally received my new Pearl Jam box set yesterday, I ordered it through the fan club so it took a couple of weeks to arrive. It was pretty painful since I had to see the box at the record stores and keep myself from buying it.

Anyway, Pearl Jam have been releasing their last shows in digital format, so here is why they decided to release these 3 shows at the Gorge (one in 2005 and two in 2006) as a box set and why these shows are so special for the band, according to guitarist Mike McCready:

"The Gorge is the most beautiful place I have ever played. You have the backdrop of the Columbia River with the sunset and all of its colors, in addition to having a bunch of fans sitting in a hill to watch the show that was cut out to create the venue. It has an incredible spiritual vibe to it - a feeling of happiness and elation comes over the band because we are basically playing to our home in this beautiful setting.
We felt that these were above par shows -- kind of book ends to our U.S./Canadian/world tours from 2005 and 2006.

We are always thinking about new ways to make our music available to our fans and fans of live music. Our main goal is to always keep our fans happy and excited about our music, to help them maintain their experience of the live shows."