Music

8 super weird special edition records

by Jeremy Mersereau

Limited-edition novelty records! The perennial answer to the question: How can we get some guaranteed press for our upcoming release?

Easy: Make a few special edition copies shaped like a tree or colour the vinyl to look like, I don’t know, the national flag of Swaziland or something, and BAM! Congratulations, music websites everywhere are talking about your record… well, about the gimmickry and generally not about the music, but hey, it’s a start!

Here are eight of the weirdest and wonderful-est special vinyl editions that managed to delight, confound, and disgust the music world at large.