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Paul McCartney’s McCartney III 3×3 Edition – unboxed!
Capitol Records sent SDE three copies of the new Paul McCartney McCartney III ‘3×3 Edition’. If these are truly ‘random’ then what would we end up with? Watch as SDEtv opens them up to find out!
The McCartney III ‘3×3 Edition’ is out today. Its available via this link
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Maybe they distinguish each edition by weight?
I’ve just given up waiting on London Town and Back to the Egg super deluxe sets, and sold all the previous ones to a mate that missed out on them, and used the money to get Who’s Next completing my Who collection. And I had enough money left over for a bag of chips and some mushy peas and a sausage with a pickled Egg of course !!!
Thanks Macca.
Wouldn’t hold your breath on refunds. Paul’s store is a universal music shop front. Appalling customer service. Only has a bot for chat. No phone number and a ticket messaging system with generic responses. I’m still waiting for my Beatles red and blue refund after 6 weeks. I’ve had to resort to recharge with my bank. They just won’t refund me or answer my questions. Only emails saying do you still need our help. Beatles store another UM store front.
Well I was a muppet and bought 2. Judging by the comments these will be his only two sales :D
I got identical splatter versions.
And they arrived in a worse state than Paul’s with two corners on each bent and bashed.
Refund applied for.
He’s back to 0 sales again.
As a side note my Blondie box set got thrown over an 8 foot side gate last week by a Yodal delivery guy.
Mental.
Please let us know how you get on with the refund!
Refund email came through this morning StevieT
Got the refund today @StevieT
This would be fine if it were the album first released, but this is pretty ridiculous…I just have the green CD & the 3 Imagined CD, and that’s fine with me…
I just see “Simon” every time I see this wacky macca release. Help me.
I’ve seen some people mentioning Google Chrome.
I used to be a McCartney completist, but since he switched from HearMusic to Universal, there’s been soooo many redundant special editions that I’ve given up trying to keep up. Cover variations, different vinyl colours etc, impractical and excessively overpriced box sets etc. This is just another needless release with no reason to exist.
I would gladly purchase a blu-ray with the excellent Atmos mix of this album, which up till now has only appeared on streaming platforms in lossy quality. Same goes for McCartney, Red Rose Speedway, Band on the Run and McCartney II.
This wasteful repackaging is a waste of time and resources.
When I saw the price, I thought it was for the bundle, but then I realized it’s for ONE album. Ouch… I still maintain that it’s a great album, one of his best ever. I have only one copy (white vinyl) and that’s enough for me.
One of his best ever? Really? Not even better than Egypt Station or New for me. Of course couple of good tracks, there always are.
And desperate measures to sell it right from the start
It’s one in the better half of his catalogue. Not as good as Egypt Station, no.
I’m not going to order them but Paul if you don’t want the three vinyl send them my way thanks muchly
Has Paul McCartney earnt the right to clog up pressing plants and delay releases by new/smaller artists?Creating obstacles to new creative product to produce reissues that noone wants indirectly or otherwise?
Perhaps this is an issue he’s not fully aware of or worse a bit indifferent too.
Beautiful coloured vinyl of course.
I sometimes wonder if the artists are that involved with these releases or it’s just studio execs on the cadge.
I mean god knows he surely can’t need the money. Perhaps Paul or someone else would know, it would certainly be interesting to know how much involvement these bigger artists have in their material…
MPL own the rights under licence to Universal, and in this case they’d obviously have to have supplied the handwritten things to be reproduced as inserts. In practice I suspect a lot of rock stars who have the right of veto just delegate it, but probably not Paul McCartney.
Besides – 3×3 for the third anniversary of McCartney 3 seems like the most Macca thumbs aloft idea ever, I can’t picture anyone else coming up with it.
So out of the 3 variants, 2 have the same ‘extras’ and one doesn’t? They could at least have put something different in all 3 ! Not that I’d buy this in a million years, but it would be nice for the ( few?) people who do…
There is actually one unique item with each vinyl variant.
The lyric sheet was the same in 2 of them though, no?
No.
Agree completely with you Sir Paul …Sinclair!
As tri-colour vinyls go, they ain’t the best…….. in fact, they are not good at all. If you want a tri colour lp, go elsewhere….. I recommend the neopolitan coloured The Time’s Ice Cream Castles.
Also, for a coloured Christmas lp bargain…….. dream theater triple lp in yellow, WITH 2cd of the same “lost not forgotten archives images and words demos” is only £16 at the moment at amazon.co.uk…….about 60% off!
Happy Christmas….every-wun!
Thanks Paul for an honest look at this nonsense and not fawning over the freebies from das Capitol. They wanted SDE subscribers to see it, now we have. And won’t be buying it, thanks.
In the off-chance anyone of influence is reading these comments:
I don’t collect records, I collect music.
Paul, we’re both massive Paul McCartney fans ( I think), but I’m surprised you lend your support to promoting this painfully superfluous release? You must see some sense in it … :)
Have you watched the video? Did my voiceover come across as “supportive”
Good point! I only skimmed through it I’m afraid to see highlights, which is, of course, my mistake!
If Paul didn’t get all three of them, call me cynical but sales of three would be down I guess. Wouldn’t look good if he unboxed them and two were the same!!. Maybe the shrink wrap was added after confirming that they are all different hence the damaged corners!. The plot thickens shame the card stock isn’t . If I was a collector I’d probably get three of the nice varied psychedelic like one, glad I ain’t though. Unless they used a secret pen on the wrap or something.
Everyone that Capitol sent “promo” copies to got all three variations.
I suspected as much when watching Andrew opening his copies on the Parlogram channel a couple of day ago.
There must be a difference between Macca’s UK site and his USA site. When I go to the link provided here, it clearly says “limited to 4 per customer”. It also says that all sales are final, so if your album shows up as Paul’s in the video, you cannot return it.
If I received that from a retailer I would be doing a return. Totally pointless release.
Wish the McCartney team would finish of Back to the Egg/London Town rather than put effort into something nobody wants…
I can imagine lots of returns, if they arrive in anything like that condition.
…and to add insult to injury, the had the audacity to steal the colours of Genesis’s Abacab artwork from 1981.
A multi-coloured vinyl of Abacab? Now THAT I’d buy.
I’m picturing an employee sitting with three different piles of records, and thinking if they should be naughty or nice – ‘you get different versions, and you don’t!’ Of course anyone wanting to buy this, wants to buy three and know they are all going to be different. The current offer is nothing short of ridiculous, and a terrible way to treat your consumer.
I did stupidly manage to buy two copies of the Sail On Sailor Beach Boys cd box set on different offers, but at least it was good value and it’ll make a gift for someone who never knew they wanted it!
Merry Christmas Paul McCartney. We’re lucky to have you, but not your marketing team.
Whilst the McC website still states ‘Limit 2 per customer’ the ‘Quantity’ drop-down does allow you to select and add 3 copies.
It seems they’ve re-thought the limit but haven’t updated the blurb.
I bet that the reason the drop down allows 3 is because the marketing team realizes this is the least wanted release of all the releases Paul has done and has the lowest preorder, so they needed to do something so they do not end up with pallets of unwanted store stock.
I am assuming
complementary product sent by labels has legal disclosures stating you cannot resale them for profit?If this is the case I am just being nosy and wondering aloud what your company does with all the various complementary stuff you get sent?
Anyway,good unboxing video as usual.I am guessing the three different pressings are done separately then randomly sorted,thus enabling promo ones and stuff allocated for specific people to be taken away before they are randomly bundled altogether as a single lot.
It could foster a whole new version of football sticker swapping for the modern age – now there’s a thought – I’ve got six versions of Macca 3 that I can swap for your version. The one divided into three!!.
Yep, even though they’re from the same factory they’d obviously have to make each version consecutively (or theoretically they could be simultaneously done on multiple machines) so it wouldn’t be difficult to pick out 50 or whatever quantity off each production line to package up as the promo sets, McCartney’s personal copies etc.
In the pre mp3/streaming days journalists and music writers used to make a nice bit of beer money on the side by selling on their promo CDs to 2nd hand shops. I used to get loads of cheap CDs that way, sometimes ahead of release date – either in a generic printed cover or with the tell-tale ’Promo Only Not For Sale’ sticker proudly displayed on the front