King of Limbs "Newspaper album" revealed

[fluffhead77]

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/april/king-of-limbs-radiohead

comes with two 10" pieces of vinyl, a newspaper designed by Stanley donwood and a SHEET OF PERFORATED BLOTTER PAPER WITH RADIOHEAD SYMBOLS ON IT!

This screams DOSE ME! I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ton of L the next time they tour.

[bouche]

Finally, got notification of the shipment.

[TheGoodRev]

This looks awesome, and though I haven't been invested in a Radiohead album in some years, this packaging makes me want to order it.

However

On their website site they advertise this as "perhaps" the world's first newspaper album.

Don't tell me nobody in or associated with Radiohead has ever owned a copy of Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick, the sleeve of which opens up to a 12-page spoof newspaper?

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

The original LP cover was a spoof of a twelve-by-sixteen inch (305 by 406 mm) multipage local newspaper, entitled The St. Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser, with articles, competitions, adverts, etc., lampooning the parochial and amateurish local journalism that still exists in many places today, as well as certain classical album covers. Jethro Tull's official website states about the mock-newspaper, "There are a lot of inside puns, cleverly hidden continuing jokes (such as the experimental non-rabbit), a surprisingly frank review of the album itself, and even a little naughty connect-the-dots children's activity."[3] The "newspaper", dated 7 January 1972, also includes the entire lyrics to the poem "Thick as a Brick" (and, thus, to the album of the same name) as written by a fictional 8-year-old literary prodigy, Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock, whose disqualification from a poetry contest is the focus of the front page story. This article claims that although Bostock initially won the contest with "Thick as a Brick", the judges' decision was repealed after a multitude of protests and threats concerning the offensive nature of the poem, furthered by allegations of the boy's psychological instability. Subtly scattered throughout the articles are references to the lyrics, to Bostock and Jethro Tull, and to other peculiar parts of the newspaper itself. The spoof newspaper had to be heavily abridged for conventional CD covers, but the 25th Anniversary Special Edition CD includes a partial facsimile; some content is missing, such as a part of the "front page;" however, the picture was restored to its full size including the entire image of "Gerald's chum", 14-year-old Julia Fealey, who in the article below the main one blames her recent pregnancy on Bostock.