Radiohead - King of Limbs Vinyl LP STILL SEALED Newspaper/CD/MP3 Edition

	£		36
	$		48

Radiohead - The King of Limbs Still Sealed

Item has 2 extra tracks to the CD edition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Limbs

Packaging and artwork[edit]

The King of Limbs artwork was created by Yorke and Stanley Donwood, who has worked with Radiohead since the release of their 1995 record The Bends. It was influenced by Northern European fairy tales and their association with nature and woods.[36] As with previous Radiohead albums, Donwood worked on the artwork as the band recorded nearby; the music made Donwood think of "immense multicoloured cathedrals of trees, with music echoing from the branches whilst strange fauna lurked in the fog."[36] He and Yorke "drew pictures of trees with eyes, with mobile limbs, and mouths and familiars",[36] creating "strange, multi-limbed creatures that are neither malevolent or benevolent, they're simply there, part of the living spirit of the forest."[37]

For the special "newspaper" edition of The King of Limbs, Donwood wanted to create something "in a state of flux."[36] He chose newspaper for "its ephemeral nature", admiring "the way the paper goes yellow and brittle when you leave it out in the sunlight";[37] this reflected the album's nature theme, "mirroring the inevitable decay that comes with being alive."[36] Donwood took inspiration from real publications, including a stack of radical 1960s newspapers and magazines left at bassist Colin Greenwood's house by an unknown person,[36] and weekend broadsheets: "Like a really annoying Sunday paper, you know when you buy the paper and all this crap falls out? I wanted to do something really annoying with all these crappy bits of floppy, glossy paper."[37] The "newspaper" edition of The King of Limbs was nominated for the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in the 54th Grammy Awards.[38]

Radiohead announced The King of Limbs on their website on 14 February 2011 with a release date of 19 February, five days later.[6] On 18 February, the band's blog, Dead Air Space, published a song from the album, "Lotus Flower", with an accompanying music video uploaded to Radiohead's official YouTube channel.[40] The band released the album later that day – a day earlier than first announced – with guitarist Ed O'Brien writing: "It's Friday... It's almost the weekend...It's a full moon....You can download The King of Limbs now if you so wish!"[41][42]

The download of The King of Limbs is DRM-free.[43] The MP3 download costs £6, US$9, or €7; the WAV download costs £9, US$14, or €11.[43][44][45] Customers could also order a special "newspaper edition" of the album, released 9 May 2011, for £30, US$48 or €36 with the MP3 download, and £33, US$53 or €39 with the WAV download (shipping included). The "newspaper" edition contains "two 10-inch vinyl records in a special record sleeve, many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, a compact disc, and a colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic package".[46]

To promote the retail release of The King of Limbs, Radiohead distributed a free single-issue newspaper, the Universal Sigh, at record shops across the world on 28 March 2011. It is separate from the "newspaper" edition of The King of Limbs.[47] Artist Stanley Donwood described the Universal Sigh (the title taken from lyrics to "Bloom") as "a 12-page tabloid, printed using web-offset lithography on newsprint paper, just like the LA Weekly or London Lite, or Daily Mail."[48] The paper features artwork, poetry, and lyrics, along with short stories by Stanley Donwood, Jay Griffiths and Robert Macfarlane.[49] The free newspaper concept came from Donwood witnessing "a seething mass of humanity at the top of the steps down to Oxford Circus tube station, where amongst the heaving throng of commuters were valiant distributors of London Lite and Metro, and the Evening Standard, attempting to hand them out."[48] Donwood and Yorke appeared in person to distribute copies of the Universal Sigh to fans in London.[39]

In June 2011, Radiohead announced a series of remixes of tracks from the album.[50] These remixes and others are compiled on the remix album TKOL RMX 1234567, released in September 2011.[51]

Radiohead performed The King of Limbs in its entirety for The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement, broadcast in July 2011 and released on DVD and Blu-ray in December 2011.[52][53]