Animal Collective Box Set Details Emerge via eBay

greedrex · 03.20.2009, 09:40 AM

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Animal Collective Box Set Details Emerge via eBay

A test pressing of an Animal Collective release is being auctioned on eBay. This is news? Not usually. But in this case, it's not just any Animal Collective release, it's the long-rumored live box set on the Catsup Plate label. And the auction is for charity.
Playfully titled Animal Crack Box, the 3xLP set gathers live material that was "recorded live to MiniDisc at various locations over the course of the course of the first three years or so of the band." The box set has been talked about for years (including in a recent Pitchfork interview), and now it looks like it's really happening. Catsup Plate, who released Animal Collective's Campfire Songs album, put up the auction to benefit Doctors Without Borders. Here's the story, cut and pasted from the listing:

"We never know what to do with test pressings here at Catsup Plate. Fairly soon after we approve them we have commercial copies of the record, so the test pressing usually go into a box somewhere. Save them for the grandkids or something like that.
For our upcoming 3LP boxed set of live and unreleased Animal Collective music, entitled Animal Crack Box, we've decided to do something a bit more positive with a set of the test pressings and offer them up for auction with 100% of proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, a Nobel Peace Prize winning medical humanitarian organization who do a tremendous job in offering impartial and non-political help to victims of violence, neglect, or catastrophe around the world."

So there you have it. A good cause and a lot of music, but it'll cost you a few bucks. No word yet on a release date for the proper set. Per the auction description, it will be limited to 1,000 copies and will not be sold in record stores. Track listing and recording info below the jump.

greedrex · 03.20.2009, 09:41 AM

more pix

noisereductions · 03.20.2009, 09:44 AM

i know! f'ing awesome. I want one.

atsonicpark · 03.20.2009, 09:55 AM

current bid: $666

davenotdead · 03.20.2009, 10:55 AM

stop announcing it! ugh.

noisereductions · 03.20.2009, 10:59 AM

Wasn't it originally going to be a 5LP set?

SuperCreep · 03.20.2009, 11:15 AM

Is it going to include the crack I need to enjoy that shit?

greedrex · 03.20.2009, 12:58 PM

he he

03.20.2009, 09:40 AM	#1
greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	from Pitchdork Animal Collective Box Set Details Emerge via eBay A test pressing of an Animal Collective release is being auctioned on eBay. This is news? Not usually. But in this case, it's not just any Animal Collective release, it's the long-rumored live box set on the Catsup Plate label. And the auction is for charity. Playfully titled Animal Crack Box, the 3xLP set gathers live material that was "recorded live to MiniDisc at various locations over the course of the course of the first three years or so of the band." The box set has been talked about for years (including in a recent Pitchfork interview), and now it looks like it's really happening. Catsup Plate, who released Animal Collective's Campfire Songs album, put up the auction to benefit Doctors Without Borders. Here's the story, cut and pasted from the listing: "We never know what to do with test pressings here at Catsup Plate. Fairly soon after we approve them we have commercial copies of the record, so the test pressing usually go into a box somewhere. Save them for the grandkids or something like that. For our upcoming 3LP boxed set of live and unreleased Animal Collective music, entitled Animal Crack Box, we've decided to do something a bit more positive with a set of the test pressings and offer them up for auction with 100% of proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, a Nobel Peace Prize winning medical humanitarian organization who do a tremendous job in offering impartial and non-political help to victims of violence, neglect, or catastrophe around the world." So there you have it. A good cause and a lot of music, but it'll cost you a few bucks. No word yet on a release date for the proper set. Per the auction description, it will be limited to 1,000 copies and will not be sold in record stores. Track listing and recording info below the jump. __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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03.20.2009, 09:44 AM	#3
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noisereductions invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New England, USA Posts: 16,210	Wasn't it originally going to be a 5LP set? __________________ noisereduxinstalled.weebly.com
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03.20.2009, 11:15 AM	#7
SuperCreep expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: brooklyn Posts: 2,281	Is it going to include the crack I need to enjoy that shit? __________________
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03.20.2009, 12:58 PM	#8
greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	he he __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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