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was sorting out some vinyl tonight and found my Iron Maiden 'The First 10 Years" box set. These were 10 double 12" singles re-released fortnightly in 1990. From Running Free To Infinite Dreams. They included 'Listen With Nicko' the Maiden drummers tales and jokes - v entertaining
With each release you got a coupon and if you sent them off at the end of the run you got a box to store them in. Well I did it for both editions.
Did anyone else do this with other things? I seem to remember if you collected coupons from Star Wars figures you could send off for a Darth vader collectors case to keep your figures in.
Plus who were you a fan of that made you fall for this sort of release? Wedding Present? Ash? Fabs?
You got this sort of malarky with yer new fangled mp3s
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Back in early 1977 (I think it was)...
... when I was a callow youth, if you bought the Clash's debut LP early enough you'd find a sticker on the inner bag. If you sent that off with the completed form torn out of the NME you'd receive an EP with an instrumental called 'Listen', 'Capital Radio' and an interview with the band conducted on the tube.
My prized possession
Because in the interview they mention playing at Leeds Poly.
Crowded House Woodface
They released 2 versions of each of the 4 singles on cd on consecutive Mondays. They each had 3 unavailable, at the time, covers & live tracks. The first one came with a box to put them all in. I've still got it somewhere.
Music newspaper Sounds issued
some sampler LP's that you got by sending off coupons
Where else could you have found Eric Clapton, Doctors of Madness and The Jam on the same disc?
And going further back
Each Action Man or any accessories that you bought came with stars. I can recall amassing 21 and getting someone that my original Action Man could shoot at. My mum still called them "dolls". Bah !
I have a Sounds album in the loft
The only thing I can remember from it is Bad Motor Scooter by Montrose. I had to go to HMV Oxford Street to redeem the coupons.
In the unit in my mum's
In the unit in my mum's living room there is still a box with my old Action Man stars. I had enough for the guard dog but was saving up for the actual Action Man. In the same box is a collection of Robertson's gollies clipped from jars of jam that I never got round to sending off to get a badge.
Fairport Convention
Their box set that came out about 10 years and you could send off for a bonus CD.
I did.
That was fascinating, wasn't it readers?
Was it the Free Reed label box set?
I did exactly the same with their Martin Carthy box set, except it was a few years earlier so the bonus disc was a bloody useless CD-ROM which I suspect I've never played.
Even worse, when I bought my copy of the box set, the bonus disc was out of stock and took months to arrive.
Tsk! old technology, who needs it?
REM
REM did something with all their singles that came off one of their albums. I think it was NAIHF but it may have been Monster. It involved live tracks then taping them on to a cassette that they provided to make a whole live set. You turned the cover of one of the cassette singles inside out to get the cover of the live album. I remember completing this, but can't quite remember the whole mechanics of it.
I've got these, but I've lost the tape!
I've since compiled them onto a cd anyway. From memory, I can tell you it was the Monster singles: Kenneth, Bang & Blame, Crush With Eyeliner, Strange Currencies and Tongue. The first 4 had 12 songs from the 1992 Greenpeace concert (also available on the bootleg 'The Trouble With Mike') and Tongue had 3 songs performed on Saturday Night Live. It was the Tongue cassette single you had to use to tape them onto.
I really like the recent R.E.M. albums, but the b-sides from the last ten years were mostly just live version of songs chosen seemingly at random. The Monster singles was a much better idea.
Hat tipped.
Great knowledge. Your memory is much better than mine!
If only I could remember important things
as well as I can recall trivia!
Ash
I got the download subscription for the A-Z series, which worked out as £13 for around 40 songs. I don't normally buy downloads (rather have a cd) but I thought it was a nice system so I went for it. The vinyl version was crazy expensive, loads of singles with only one song on each, the same stuff as above (well, 26 of the songs, the others still being bonus downloads) but for well over £100.
Darth Vader
I got that Darth Vader collectors case. In fact my son inherited it but moved his allegiance to Potter 'the git-wizard'. Traitor. The case is near worthless as they manufactured tons of them.
Felix cat food
The are tokens to cut out and collect on the sides of box of Felix pouches. Thinking that if I collected enough I could get some free cat food I collected them for about 6 months.
Then I went to the website. What a waste of time. Send tokens plus money and I could can buy a bowl to feed the cats (they think I'd spread it on the floor previously?) or a cat mat or other rubbishy Felix branded items.