Limited to 2 per customer. Strictly limited to 3000 copies.
This numbered limited-edition collection of 80 x 7” singles personally supervised by Paul McCartney contains:
Recreations of 65 singles/promos using restored original artwork from 11 different countries
15 singles never-before released on 7” including:
Singles previously released on 12”, picture discs, CD singles/promos, digital downloads, and music videos
1 x EP
1 exclusive test pressing randomly selected from the manufacturing process
148-page book containing foreword from Paul, essay by Rob Sheffield, recording notes, release dates, and chart information on each of the singles – each single included is shown on the attached onsert which will be packed into each box
Remastered and cut at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Also available digitally.
All housed in a two-piece, four-walled FSC approved Redwood pine and Birch Ply wooden art crate manufactured in the United Kingdom.
Yours for….wait for it….£614.99
Planetary resources, Paul… Madness.
He likes his superexpensiveeditions dunnee? Remember that Egypt Station suitcase that was actually more expensive than going to Egypt? And the dog’s breakfast that was the Flowers ITD set with one track that was buried on a cassette? His genius as a songwriter doesn’t extend to resissues – I bet those silly EPs appended to the last two Beatles sets were his idea.
Some people fill the world with silly EPs.
…and what’s wrong with that?
Yes, I’d like to know.
There’s a mini-hamper up for grabs
to the person who responds correctlly.
No gnomes? I’m out.
Seriously, who has been thinking to themselves “what I’d really like is a box of 80 7″ singles”? Far fewer than 3000 of us, I bet. Especially considering Macca’s album reissues seem to have ground to a halt.
“No gnomes? I’m out.”
This is Macca, not Gong!
Or Bowie.
I wouldn’t want whatever that is on the cover of Toy in my garden.
‘Also available digitally’….possibly more convenient than changing the record every few minutes….and a tad cheaper.
Get an autochanger! They’re all the rage!
Sadly, Mrs. J has gone off to stay with her mother “for a few days”
“The Afterworder who told his wife to turn the record over, there’s a good girl”
Caption to a picture of an unhappy old chap with an axe in his head.
You should have left the price out of your post and we could all have had fun trying to guess what the price was!
$900+ in Canada (inc tax). Crazy!
“Digital” version seems to be around $120 US. But probably about 90% of the tracks are available elsewhere anyway
I took that to mean they will be streamed, so obviously you have to pay for a download. No frigging Dolby Atmos..?
Think that’s Hi-Res download site Qobuz
Macca can shove his shingles up his arse!
But…but…there only 3000 of them Baron! C’mon, you know you want to…
Hey Nigel, I wouldn’t buy it if I had enough money to employ someone* to turn the fucking things over.
*Obviously I would pay a very decent hourly rate, £2.75 an hour and 4 days holiday every 5 years. I checked these figures out with that Victorian looking cnut, a mate of the yellow headed tawt.
240,000 actually
Shove his shingles? Even Shilly Love Songs and Shay Shay Shay?
It wasn’t a mishtake.
Washn’t Shurely?
The Connery Remixes.
On 007″ vinyl
No Mr Bond, I expect you to live and let die.
Shpies like ush
I do wonder who at MPL is responsible for these wheezes and if they do it at the old man’s behest or just initiate them, to make him happy. I mean, 600 quid for a box of singles?
I’m guessing it was the same Einstein behind the ludicrous marketing campaign around ‘III’ the other year. I am sure it gives Macca no sleepless nights knowing that it had the effect of making me sick of the damn thing long before I naturally tired of ‘Women and Wives’ or whatever. The non-stop series of limited edition coloured vinyl pressings, remix albums, extra tracks totally shat over any whimsical notion of the album being a natural companion to the humble, homespun ‘I’ and ‘II’. That was followed by the very pricey Lyrics, which I dutifully bought (and enjoy very much)
But back to this singles box set – well, I obviously haven’t that sort of cash. But I guess MPL know that their core market can still support lovely old material being reissued at astronomical prices, with full bells and whistles, for at least the next decade or so, to offset the risk of the apocryphal, cigar-smoking child, picnicking on Saturn in 2055 failing to be enchanted by a contemporaneous mix of ‘C Moon’
Sold out apparently. So whoever comes up with these ideas is doing a good thing
Well, there’s clearly still the market.
@jaygee – I think I paid close to 90, 100 but that was in Daunt bookstore the week or so after it came out. £45 sounds a lot more reasonable!
@slotbadger
Just checked it was actually £46.49.
If it’s any consolation, SB, Brownie, our Irish Water Spaniel, devoured much of the first volume in one setting.
@slotbadger
I thought the £45 Lyrics cost me at AUK was pretty good value.
It’s a terrible thing when whimsical notions are shat all over. Just casts a pall over the day.
Casts a Paul over the day for sure
Surely there’s been a bad review of a Macca record at some point headlined This Leaden Paul….
Doubtless the headlines on his obits will read
“That’s Paul, folks!”
If there’s an argument over his choice of coffin for his funeral, the headlines will doubtless read
Macca Lacquer Ding Dong