One for different folks I guess.
The no love deep web alt cover
Wonder if it would be funnier if it had said Sock instead of suck.
Definitely
Not fake, but the alternative cover foisted onto the U.K. edition for no good reason
That’s the version on bought on Nice Price circa 1985 and I didn’t know then it wasn’t the initial sleeve so for some reason, association probably, I’ve always preferred that sleeve.
That’s one bad looking sleeve
I think it’s awful - every other edition has some variant of the black sleeve, but bizarrely some record company executive in the U.K. in the late seventies thought it needed some toy soldiers. It was the first cover I was familiar with too but I was always mystified by how rubbish it was.
Great album though nonetheless if not a difficult listen, I bought at the time JAMC were emerging. Loved the spilt from speaker to speaker on The Gift and the story on that track.
Quite like this alt slieve for metal box. Would pay good money for the original mind
It’s a great sleeve, trying to think off the cuff (not Googling, playing Bloodborne) if it has different content to Metal Box.
I have a cd of this and I’m pretty sure it’s all the same content. Didnt the metal box Lps actually sell at a loss also?
Possible but I don’t know. I’d prefer the one you’ve posted as the PIL box would sit odd with other LP’s re shape.
A mate of mine did a Russian degree in the early 90’s, lived in Moscow for 6 months and brought back loads of multiple copies of Led Zep and Pink Floyd vinyl that were essentially bootlegs but the same as the original albums. Some awful sleeves on them but a nice curiosity.
Just having a quick read up on this, they do appear to be the same. Also DiS gets a wiki mention on there.
My favourite PIL album is Commercial Zone and that’s not really an album proper. They have a lot more critically acclaimed material but I love the sound on Commercial Zone. Dark yet easily accessible.
I’m sure Soviet bootleg stuff goes for an arm and a leg these days. Not a road I’m prepared to go down ATM. As I’d spend all my money on it
He took them to The Plastic Factory in Birmingham, pretty sure they gave him £1 for each copy which was still 5 times what he payed for them. Madness given the vinyl revival now.
Will try and see if I’ve still got one.
I think I got this off DIS back in the day. It still remains my cover art for In Rainbows on my phone.
