Blur - Vinyl box set

Blur
21 (21 CD set)
Blur (7 LP set)

Announced overnight, an extensive re-issue package will see remastered editions of Blur's back catalogue be released on July 30th 2012. As well as the 21 CD set (consisting of 21 CDs funnily enough, including 65 unreleased tracks) there will also be a 13 LP box set, available to pre-order now.

'Leisure' will appear as a single LP, with the subsequent six albums each spread over two discs, all pressed on heavyweight 180 gram, audiophile vinyl. The first five albums have been remastered by Frank Arkwright, overseen by Stephen Street.

Original vinyl editions command high prices - with LPs selling in neglible quantities through the 1990s they're very hard to come by. As well as celebrating Blur's aural greaness this could well be a canny investment. And with the Amazon 'price guarantee' you can pre-order now and, should the price drop, you pay the lower price. Can't say fairer than that.

Belle & Sebastian - Dog On Wheels

Belle & Sebastian

Dog On Wheels
Jeepster JPR12 001
£6





The charity shops of Ely have clearly worked out that there's a vinyl renaissance taking place. As much as I'd have liked to have added a Booker T & The MGs best of to my collection I couldn't justify the £9.99 they were asking for it. Even this, Belle & Sebastian's second release, was a surprisingly (but to be fair, accurately) priced £6.

Vain - No Respect

Vain

No Respect
Island ILPS 9938
£1

For Vain, 1989 was just a little too late (likewise The Throbs in 1991). In both cases the lack of an LA connection may have had an impact too but the difference with San Francisco's Vain was that unlike the New York-based Throbs, their album wasn't largely awful.