Strictly Limited Edition
I have a (presumably) early pressing of The Who's Live At Leeds with a quite fabulous and bizzarre set of free give-aways,that for some reason I dug out last week. Included were: copies of contracts, press photos, the bands accounts as the High Numbers which reveal they earnt £25 from playing the Majestic Luton, letters from EMI, and a delivery note from Brock's Fireworks. Even if all mocked up specially who wouldn't want these to peruse as you listened to Magic Bus and imagined yourself as Kit Lambert.
Other freebies in the vinyl mausoleum I could lay my hands on included:
Pop Will Eat Itself - Get The Girl, Kill the baddies - free graffiti stencil
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink 12" - Free T-Shirt
I seem to recall my dad's copy of Sargeant Pepper containing cardboard cut-outs...or was that my imagination? His White Album definitely had some colour photo prints of the fab four...
Clearly the vinyl era was the golden age of the freebie (Strictly Limited Edition of course) and the CD era seems to have reduced this to a ho-hum DVD with the compulsory live tracks. Now with downloads the freebie is surely an endangered species. Anyway, what's your best and worst freebies with an album/single you've actually gone out and bought...
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Probably the one I like best
is the freebie album of demo tracks included with my very early, numbered copy (No. 1366) of P.J. Harvey's "Dry" album.
I have the king (or queen) of all freebies
The 'bicycle girls' poster.
Beep Purple
I have the poster/lyric sheet from Machine Head but have no idea where the album is. Actually, I'm not that certain I've ever owned it.
The Members
The tie given away with 1980:The choice is yours was pretty poor. For years it was tied around a sleeping bag to keep it rolled up. The album wasn't bad though.
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