Release Promotion īefore the release of With the Lights Out, a promotional EP entitled Selections from With the Lights Out was sent out to radio stations, featuring the songs 'White Lace and Strange', 'Blandest', ' Lithium', ' Heart-Shaped Box' and 'You Know You're Right' from the box set. This paved the way for what became the With the Lights Out box set, which arrived in November 2004, over three years after its original release date but with more music than originally promised, including an acoustic demo of 'You Know You're Right'. In 2002, the legal battle was settled, and 'You Know You're Right' appeared on the 'best-of' compilation Nirvana. She believed that 'You Know You're Right' would be 'wasted' on a box set, and instead belonged on a single-disc compilation similar to the Beatles' 1. Love's lawsuit asserted that 'the parties have fundamentally different concepts of how to manage the musical and artistic legacy of Kurt Cobain', which resulted 'in a stalemate of decision making'. Grohl and Novoselic wanted it for the box set, but Love blocked its release and sued them for control of Nirvana's legacy. Much of the dispute centered on the unreleased song ' You Know You're Right', recorded in January 1994 during the band's final studio session. It was later announced that a 45-track box set would be released in September 2001, to mark the 10th anniversary of the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind, but it was delayed by a legal battle with Cobain's widow Courtney Love. It was reported in Kerrang! in April 1999 that the surviving Nirvana members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, were planning a Nirvana box set to be released in 2000 at the earliest. Rumors of a posthumous Nirvana anthology surfaced in the mid-1990s, not long after the death of singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994.

As of 2016, With the Lights Out had sold 546,000 copies in the US. The box set was planned for release in 2001, but was delayed by a legal battle with Courtney Love, the widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. The title comes from the lyrics of Nirvana's 1991 single ' Smells Like Teen Spirit'. It contains three CDs and one DVD of previously rare or unreleased material, including B-sides, demos, and rehearsal and live recordings. With the Lights Out is a box set by the American rock band Nirvana, released on November 23, 2004.

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