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Old 19-06-2020, 17:53
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I caved and bought the book from Amazon, and I'm glad I did - it's truly a thing of beauty. Still definitely overpriced, even at Amazon's £40.99 - I think around £25-£30 would have been more reasonable. But I can be happy that I've done my bit towards getting it in the top ten today!
Economies of scale unfortunately... very few people will even buy a CD these days (or an MP3) so the number of people looking to buy the commemorative 2CD+book must be piddly...
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Old 19-06-2020, 18:22
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#4 on sales / physical and #2 on vinyl. Finally outselling "The Greatest Showman" too!
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Old 19-06-2020, 18:25
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Forgot how awesome Us Against You b-side is, it's amazing, but I never had 90% clue of the lyrics until I googled them now, they're pretty mad but I like them haha
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Old 20-06-2020, 13:23
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Anyone know if the artwork for GATS cover was an existing image or something they took especially for it?

Its always confused me as the lady's hands either behind back or head is on backwards lol

Any thoughts?
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Old 20-06-2020, 15:58
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Anyone know if the artwork for GATS cover was an existing image or something they took especially for it?

Its always confused me as the lady's hands either behind back or head is on backwards lol

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I always just thought it was Richey and Nicky.
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Old 20-06-2020, 16:00
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Finally outselling "The Greatest Showman" too!
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Old 20-06-2020, 16:07
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#4 on sales / physical and #2 on vinyl. Finally outselling "The Greatest Showman" too!
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(No, not the trap, the one where he's proud something blew up before the bigger thing blew up)
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Old 20-06-2020, 16:13
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Old 20-06-2020, 21:12
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Was just lovely to see all of them including Richey looking hqppy.
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Old 21-06-2020, 16:52
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I got mine and had no problems and it included the signed sleeve+signed print.

then I got a 2nd signed sleeve in the post the day after, now I have two signed sleeves plus the signed print.

What should I do with the spare signed sleeve?
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Old 21-06-2020, 17:05
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I think we should send all the spare sleeves, signed or not, off to Jeremy Deller. He could 'create' something with them as a lockdown project!
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Old 21-06-2020, 18:24
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More info - "The album is No.17 with 2,974 sales, its first chart appearance since that original 1993 run and its highest chart placing since its second week on sale. "
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Old 21-06-2020, 20:34
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Pretty poor sales, but I guess the price had something to do with that. Had it been say, a tenner cheaper, I reckon a more sales would have come about. I've enjoyed listening to the album and the demos and b-s-sides on Spotify though thanks to my brother giving me access to his account Like I've said before, when it drops to about £30 or less I will buy it.
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Old 21-06-2020, 20:39
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Seeing the low number of sales high charting albums have always surprises me.
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Old 21-06-2020, 20:59
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More info - "The album is No.17 with 2,974 sales, its first chart appearance since that original 1993 run and its highest chart placing since its second week on sale. "
I didn't buy it and probably won't until it goes below £20. Why they couldn't just do a normal release without a book baffles me - I appreciate it's all "part of the package" but the pricing has put a lot of people off.
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