shmoo Wrote:
Diggity Dawg Wrote:
I don't see what the big deal here is...there's albums released EVERY WEEK that are using this method.
Huh? What other album has a different tracklisting at different stores?
Like someone else said, this happens every week with different releases. This week it's the new Ryan Adams:
So let me run down your options - you can buy it at:
1. Ryan's website, where you'll get a bonus disc with the live, in-studio track "These Girls"
2. Best Buy is where you'll get a bonus Lost Highway sampler, along with a download code for the Best Buy exclusive bonus track, "I'll Keep the Change."
3. Starbucks, who knows...supposedly an extra track and a video track (still waiting for specifics)
4. iTunes, where you'll get an immediate download of "Two," a bonus track, "What Sin Replaces Love (Live from ‘The Henry Rollins Show’ on IFC), the bonus video, "Two,” a digital booklet and access to preorder ticket sales through Ticketmaster.
5. Borders, additional online content.
6. CIMS stores, where you'll get what I was talking about above (a three-song live DVD and lithograph).
7. Overseas, where you'll get a UK/EU bonus track, "Nobody Listens to Silence," and HMV, where you get a limited-edition cardboard (horray) slipcase.
8. Japan, where the UK bonus track has an additional friend in the track "Alice." (Use Babelfish to translate if you like)
9. VINYL - I have been emailing all over trying to find out the specifics of this vinyl release and there are only a few things that I know for sure: the first pressing is on orange vinyl and comes with a poster. I do not know for sure whether there will be the UK bonus track (I think there will be - Ryan's vinyl pressings in the past normally have the bonus track if time allows) nor do I know whether there will be a printing after the orange vinyl edition (though I also think there will be). Everything I read suggests that there are 2000 orange copies for the entire world, which leads me to believe that since they are being pressed in Nashville, there is only one pressing and it's a US version. Specifics are very very hard to come by.
Yeah, it sucks, but this is how things are being done. No more b-sides, no more EPs, it's multiple versions of albums now. And the fans are going to just share those songs amongst each other because everyone knows this is a bunch of monkey-ass bullshit. Besides, you
know there will be a "deluxe edition" of these albums about a month before Christmas that compiles all of these b-sides plus a couple other oddities.
