Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile: Deviations 1

Regarding this and the reissues - Didn't Trent mention that he was aware and frustrated with the first "batch" of reissues and that its since been corrected - I cant recall exactly but something to that effect; that he's also aware of the problems and is doing something about it? I him saying something about the vinyl reissues anyway, I just can't quote him verbatim.

In any case - Overall I'm happy with what I got, so I'm kinda nit picking really - I really am happy with my copy. It arrived with a visible - but not severe - crease in the middle of the wide spine; having experienced this before with other "special" record sleeves that are somewhat reminiscent of this one - the wide spine in particular - I'm certain it got that way during shipping. Curiously though, the stock inner sleeves for both records 3 and 4 had an identical crease right across the top 1/3'rd or so - those seemed to have been caused when they were being packed into the outer jacket, as its only confined to those two and nothing else.

The records themselves looked fine upon first (visual) impression. I've since played them (I'm editing this to reflect that) and I'm happy that all 8 sides played without incident. If I were to be extra picky, well, there were some dust particles on the records but I always clean any new record* before play, and store them in Sleeve City/Diskeeper 5.0 inner sleeves. I don't like the 2-records-per-side arrangement, and I wish that instead of the single card printed with the track info, we'd get the same kind of booklet as includes with the Definitive vinyl reissues, especially for the price. No doubt this would cost a lot more if that were the case, but still, I'd have gladly paid for something like this: https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/Beck-Odelay/release/1598309

That was limited to 3000 copies; I don't know if 'deviations' is limited and even if it were I have no idea as to the numbers involved.

[*I use a Loricraft record cleaning machine and an assortment of fluids and brushes but I imagine a good dry brush that picks up dust before play is enough; if you don't want to go that route. And no, I'm not getting anything for free lol]

Arrived today, all corners are broken ... fucking what is so much time to wait and get the garbage, wrote in of answering an alliance and promised to send one more copy, I'll wait ...

+2 corner dings and bent covers. But they managed to send it via Expres... have your broken vinyl quicker. Thanks!

yep. Arrived with a corner completely smashed in...fun fun fun.

Mine arrive with all four corners dinged and seam splits. No visible damage on the cheap outer mailer. This will be the last time I order from the NIN store.

Shipping/release date drama aside, I think the vinyl itself for this release sounds excellent.

Hello,

You’ll be glad to hear that your copy of The Fragile: Deviations 1 2017 Limited Edition is now being packaged up ready to make it’s way to you.

Your order should leave our facility before the end of this week. A tracking number will be sent to you as it leaves.

If you ordered any other items alongside The Fragile: Deviations 1 2017 they will be shipped separately.

Pre-orders for the 2017 Definitive Editions of Broken, Downward Spiral, Not The Actual Events and The Fragile are still due to ship in early August.

We thank you, yet again, for your patience and hope you enjoy Deviations when you receive it.

Any questions, please go here.

Thanks

NIN store

C'mon, man! It's almost June and I still have received no notice or even a sniff of this record. Like everyone else, I have a receipt that shows my purchase 12/26... where is this thing??!?! I have tried to email customer service, and the address listed ([email protected]) doesn't even work any more. Maybe I am just blocked from sending so many requests for updates, I don't know. This is ridiculous. I've been a NIN fan for 25 years and have never been this disappointed by Trent.

I hope we do get CD version. "La Mer" is outstanding in its Alternative Version!

Anyone knows how many pieces will be pressed from the vinyl version? I thougth it will lasts just a few days to run out of it, but they still accept new orders.