UK retailer HMV announce limited editions as part of ‘Vinyl Week’

UK music retailer HMV have announced a ‘vinyl week’ where their customers will benefit from special discounts on selected vinyl records, and unique limited edition coloured vinyl pressings…

Vinyl Week will run from 13 to 19 June and the limited vinyl pressings will be available in-store and online from 18 June. Here is the full list of exclusives:

• • Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols (1000 copies on pink vinyl)
• • Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go (1000 copies on blue vinyl)
• • Various Artists: Let’s Bop – Sun Records Collection (1000 copies on black vinyl)
• • Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque (500 copies on ‘hmv pink’ vinyl)
• • The Clash: The Clash (1000 copies on green vinyl)
• • Velvet Underground: Loaded (1000 copies on white vinyl)
• • Deep Purple: In Rock (1000 copies on marbled vinyl)
• • Alex Turner: Submarine OST (500 copies on 10” black vinyl)
• • Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow: Ex Machina OST (500 copies on frosted vinyl)
• • John Martyn: Solid Air (500 copies on green vinyl)

As well as the above HMV will also have an exclusive ‘release window’ on the following vinyl records:

• • Iron Maiden: Brave New World
• • Pulp: Different Class
• • Pulp: His ‘n’ Hers
• • Pulp: This Is Hardcore
• • Pulp: We Love Life
• • Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
• • Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can
• • 30 Seconds To Mars: This Is War
• • Beastie Boys: Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition, Remastered)
• • Various Artists: Guardians Of The Galaxy OST (2 LP soundtrack & film score on black vinyl)

The BPI forecast 3.5 million vinyl records will be sold in 2016, which would represent strong growth on last year’s two million.