Friday 23 December 2011

The last year of a Christmas tradition (an R.E.M. 'look what came in the post' special)...

Now, I don't know where you'll stand on this one. It is pretty sad case activity, and if you are easily offended by geeky behaviour you had better look away now...
Every year the R.E.M. fan club sends out a fan club only Christmas package. It used to contain a ltd edition 7" vinyl as part of the package but recently its been CDs. Some times they'll go to town and record  some sort of novelty cover version just for the release. Other times they just stick on some live versions of their tunes that haven't been released before. Well, anyway, I joined the fan club back in the nineties (it was acceptable in the nineties, it was acceptable at the time) and have kept up the membership since. It's pretty darn cheap (about 6 quid a year) and for all that they send you it must actually be something the band have to subsidise themselves as everything is posted out from their home town of Athens, Georgia. Due to R.E.M not actually existing anymore, this is the last year of the Christmas package. So here goes with some amateur step by step photography in the traditional style. Regardez......





Ltd. Edition 3510. It's got a nice ring to it, eh? (It's a CD of live tunes, by the way).

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