McCartney ‘Archive Collection’ Coloured Vinyl – Confusion Reigns

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Five days on from the official announcement on the Paul McCartney website that there are to be eight titles in the McCartney Archive Collection series re-issued as single discs on the Capitol label (on CD, black vinyl and limited coloured vinyl), confusion reigns about just how anyone can actually order the coloured vinyl.

Both McCartney’s own site, and the Universal Music store site included links to order these but by the weekend both had been quickly taken down. The Universal link is just dead (and again here), while the official McCartney links for each album have since been altered and only take you through to the US Amazon site where there is no mention of the coloured vinyl whatsoever. The links are clearly for the black vinyl editions only.

Many online stores over the weekend quickly put up their own images and prices – both for individual coloured LPs and bundles – but these too have since been either completely taken down (for example SoundStage Direct in the US), or now carry an apology (for example the Bull Moose store) stating that they’ve been asked by the artist and the label NOT to sell these titles online.

To quote collectors on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums thread, many of whom have preordered and paid their money before the links just disappeared:

“Seriously, what a mess. I was actually stoked about this. Now i can see it’s probably not going to be easy…..”.

and:

“Yes I’m worried about sites filling the orders. If the link was pulled from Paul’s site on the official announcement then I would worry about them being filled at any other site [too]. I have them pre ordered thru the link that was on his site and even thru that I’m worried I won’t get them. They seem very limited and none of the sites seem to be able to confirm they will honor the pre orders.”

It has to be said that this looks like a complete and utter stuff up my MPL and Capitol. They’ve gone into print and raised expectations, but they haven’t thought through what they were publicising, nor communicated how fans and collectors could get their hands on these eight coloured vinyl editions. Pretty bad form and does not auger well for the McCartney/Capitol/UMe relationship.

UPDATE: This just in from the Record Store Day site: Indie record stores are the ONLY physical retailers in the US to have the limited edition colored vinyl versions…..

7 thoughts on “McCartney ‘Archive Collection’ Coloured Vinyl – Confusion Reigns”

  1. Some areas of the internet are really the world central of bellyaching. This is an extremely small interest release and will not run out by a long shot. Only the diehardest of diehard collectors, of which there are fewer every day, would even consider getting something like this, and then divide that by how many would actually get the McCartney ones.

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  2. Some areas of the internet are really the world central of bellyaching. This is an extremely small interest release and will not run out by a long shot. Only the diehardest of diehard collectors, of which there are fewer every day, would even consider getting something like this, and then divide that by how many would actually get the McCartney ones.

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  3. So based on recent RSD experiences, there will be two complete sets split across all of Australia’s independent record stores, while a single record store in a small village outside Oslo will have 12 complete sets for sale, with most of them still unsold at the end of the day.

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  4. I’m trying to find out how many of the 2015 vinyl reissues with BONUS TRACKS are there overall? Can someone give all titles with the extra tracks ONLY and VINYL ONLY. Don’t care about the color of the vinyl, just bonus tracks

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