From teasers on the official McCartney socials, plus scant details on various Beatle forums, it’s emerging that there is yet another coloured vinyl variant of the McCartney III LP for those collectors who must have everything.

This cryptic image and message was posted in the last few hours on the Paul McCartney Instagram account:

There were also some additional words on Facebook saying “Keep your eyes peeled for 3000 more coming soon exclusively to indie record stores”.

Then in the forums, some stores and fans started to reveal that they’d been able to secure copies of this disc already:

One indie store had the temerity to post a photo with the official price sticker of US$34.95 clearly on display, but in the text on the same page say they were selling their copies for US$1000!! Bad form for an independent store in our book.

Here’s a closer view of that hype sticker. This pretty much sums up what we know so far, which is not a lot:

This new yellow and black splatter vinyl edition is pressed by Third Man Records in Detroit, is limited to 3,333 copies, and is to be on sale only through US independent record stores. Oh, and we know that the catalogue number is 602438227396 (B003391101).

There does not appear to be any information about this release on the Third Man site.

On Discogs there are two copies for sale already. One for US$1,873 and the other for US$3,000.

While some folks seem to have tracked down copies, for the most part fans in the US are bewildered by this release and, despite trying, have been unable to find any for sale.

We await developments!

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