Do you like the White Stripes? Do you like experiments? Do you like the Vault? Do you like combining all three? We do. For our 19th installment of the Vault, we're doing something we've never done before. Something that Vault members have been clamoring for…the exclusive, limited, colored vinyl edition of a record. As you probably know, TMR tries to release a limited version of every record we do. That limited edition is usually available only at certain locations or stores, while the black vinyl version is kept in print forever.
This package will consist of limited colored vinyl pressings of all of the White Stripes singles from their album Elephant. These include…
"Seven Nation Army"
"I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself"
"The Hardest Button to Button"
"There's No Home For You Here"
The b-sides consist of covers of some of Detroit's most pre-eminent artists in 2003…
"Good to Me" written by Brendan Benson and Jason Falkner and originally released on Benson's 2002 album Lapalco.
"Who's to Say…" written by Dan Miller and released by his outfit Blanche in 2003 on their album If We Can't Trust the Doctors…
"St. Ides of March" written by the Soledad Brothers and released on their self-titled album of 2000.
As well as a White Stripes live medley of "I Fought Piranhas / Let's Build a Home" recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York.
Each of these tracks has been remastered from the original analog sources, and in the case of "…March" and "Piranhas" where there were no analog masters, we used only the finest digital files that could withstand sitting unused on a hard drive for over ten years.
The artwork on all the singles has been tidied up, spell-checked and given that special Third Man "je ne sais quoi"
"There's No Home For You Here", which was originally coupled with a generic company sleeve, now has stunning new artwork. It looks electrifying!
And these sleeves FEEL amazing. Employing a process called (we're not making this up) "soft touch aqueous coating" each of these glue-pocket sleeves feels like a hybrid between rubber and lambskin. It's difficult to describe, but immediately noticeable and amazing in person. Each record will be pressed on clear vinyl with with an added vinyl highlight color insertion of either red, black or white. For "There's No Home…" all three of those colors will be added to clear vinyl, to make something truly exciting. All of this will be housed in a custom-made telescoping box, so that these singles can forever live together with distinction in your record collection. Later in 2014 each of the singles will be available individually, on black vinyl, with no box, to the general public.
SIGN UP HERE. Deadline to sign-up for this package is January 31st at 7pm CST.
If the custom box folds flat, as some folks suspect it does, then it might not fit in a regular 45 box but could certainly fit in their usual lp shipping box. If that’s what they do, hopefully they’d pad it so the 45s don’t slide around.
Not sure this will fit in a typical TMR shipping box. So probably won’t fit in my mailbox. We shall see very excited for this vault 19. can’t wait to see what 20 brings us
Would be surprised if these ship before the gang gets back from SXSW.
I’m by no means complaining about waiting, I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing out on this awesome package!
This is the album that got me into guitar. It really was a life changing piece for me. The wait is well worth it. I would rather have a quality pack that will last a long time than a rushed item.
Looking forward to the new Vault Package. Whenever it gets here, it will be worth the wait like always. I wish all the Vault Packages were White Stripes material (or at least Jack White related), so I’m especially pumped for this one.
Waiting for my Vault Packages gives me something to look forward to when I check the mail. It’s like Christmas when I see that white cardboard with black stripes. Slobber. Slobber.
Well, I didn’t mean to come off as impatient really. I was just adding to the conversation by noting that the steps are a little out of line with their normal MO or what we might normally expect is all. Wasn’t intended to sound complainy. :-)
konchok3, I agree. These things take patience….especially if you are waiting for a package in Ukraine. Isn’t that where you and BlackKate live? You all are going through a revolution or a Russian take-back or something over there and here you are in the Vault recommending “patience” = commendable. / I’m trying to spend more time out of the box but still got to check in occasionally and see what’s up. / Hope you are able to LIVE STREAM WTMR from SXSW over in Ukraine while all the governments around the world are fighting and screaming about what should happen to your country. / It’s going to be fun to listen to WTMR for the first time this week. :-)
i don’t get it sometimes. as if your vault package expire or get sour if you don’t get it within your expected time after the address verification. come on now, have some patience.