Collectors, excite: The record comes in a die-cut double gatefold sleeve, with 5 inserts and a 24" x 24" poster of George Condo artwork. The album famously came together with the help of 42 people, some of whom are Nikki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver on the single "Monster," and Pusha T on "Runaway," a single that received the "Best New Music" stamp from Pitchfork. The 14-time Grammy-winner mixes some raw, rattling tones with brass, woodwinds and string instruments, and the 70-minute set he produces here taps into anger and naked emotion. The words "Kanye" and "vinyl" don't sound like they go together in the same sentence, but this triple vinyl LP pressing will prove you wrong. Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts NOW That’s What I Call Music! ‘90’s Alternative Rock They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle): 2021 Remaster ĭreamland The Girl From Chickasaw County Ī Brighter Beat: 15th Anniversary Edition GENERATIONS EDITION DISCO4 :: PART I and DISCO4 :: PART II Ĭarry Me Home
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Up Down Left Right / In Full Bloom Īrt Moore Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson Thank you for supporting the Village Voice and our advertisers.Noise and Flowers Will Kanye’s unending pride and ambition save or ruin his industry? Tune in next week–and the next time West has an album out that he’s hoping to sell for money–to find out.Īdvertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Nobody in the industry wants that, let alone a guy poised to sell something in the neighborhood of a million records over the next week. And yet the rush toward ever lower pricing, as Asthmatic Kitty pointed out when they went through this same dilemma, pushes the consumer cost of an album ever closer to that terrifying price point: free. Why is this news? Def Jam, Kanye, and Amazon all have a stake in making sure that records continue to be worth money. It’s also an indication of how intently Amazon is trying to become a player in the world of music retail–while iTunes’s still dominant market share has stayed stagnant for most of the last year, Amazon’s has grown, and their willingness to take a loss on one of the biggest records of the year (generally, Amazon pays the same wholesale rate to the label, in this case Def Jam, then turns around and takes the loss themselves from consumers) shows how seriously they’re coming for a spot at the table. But if you had any doubts about how far he was willing to go, consider them laid to rest. Sure, that desire to go #1 was obvious before today. (It also helps that Taylor Swift did the same thing when her record came out at the end of October, as our comment section points out.) It took Sufjan Stevens to #7 ( after a lot of agonizing from his label, Asthmatic Kitty.) The fact that West–the most overdog artist out right now, bar none–is employing the same tactic that struggling indies have used this year to insert themselves into the conversation is indication of just how desperately he wants to sell a bunch of records this week. Letting Amazon sell their record for $3.99 took both the Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend to #1. But this has become the go-to strategy for making a sales splash in 2010. They don’t do that without the label’s permission, and it’s not like plenty of people wouldn’t be more than happy to pay full price. How badly? Today, you can cop West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for the low, low, low price of $3.99 on Amazon. And now– after the stellar reviews have come in, capped, we should note, by a perfect 10.0 on Pitchfork today–we know just how badly West wants it. There was a lot of speculation, earlier in the month, that West would look to do whatever he could to match or beat the woman with whom he’s spent the last year inextricably linked. You know who definitely noticed though? Kanye West. Many rap fans probably didn’t notice a couple weeks ago when Taylor Swift’s Speak Now debuted, selling over a million copies in its first week–the fastest sprint to that number since Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III, in 2008.
Behold, the Amazon-pixelated artwork of a man who will stop at nothing to be #1.
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