I hate when record companies do this. Yeah, it's a bargain or whatever, but an album is a work of art that should stand on its own merit.
Speaking of which, I found a copy of Gang of Four's second album, Solid Gold, today. It's the long out-of-print 1995 Infitity Zero issue, with the Another Day, Another Dollar EP appended to it. This is great for two reasons: 1) It was only eight bucks, and the cheapest I've seen it online is $35; 2) this means I can avoid getting last year's reissue of it, where the shitacular Hard album was placed on the same disc, bizarrely sequenced before Solid Gold, no less.