Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 11 LP Test Pressing AND COLLECTIBLE

$

300

Your chance to own an ULTRA-RARE VINYL 11 LP TEST PRESSING of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Fox Trot.  LP’s are mint and have been played through once on a premium turnable/stylus/cartridge. Due to the rarity of these records, they will only be shipped VIA UPS with appropriate insurance and signature required for delivery. 
About the LPS:  They are unlabeled and in clear and white, unlabeled outer sleeves.  The discs themselves are housed in premium inner sleeves.  All LP’s have an order/call sheet listing the tracks and other information from Optimal Media, Germany where they were pressed.
ABOUT TEST PRESSINGS:

Records known as test pressings are exactly what the name suggests – a record manufactured for the express purpose of evaluating the finished product.

Test pressings might be manufactured for the purpose of listening to material that is being considered for commercial release or they might be made as a test of production stampers for a finished commercial record.

Test pressings are vinyl records pressed from stampers and are physically virtually identical to commercially available records. The only difference is that test pressings usually have custom labels or blank labels. These labels might have the words “test pressing” pre-printed on them and may include blank lines that can be filled in by hand to indicate the name of the artist, the title of the album, the catalog number and perhaps the date of manufacture.

Test pressings are occasionally sent out to radio stations for promotional use if the production discs aren’t yet ready, but most of the time, they’re simply used to evaluate the finished product. This would include making sure that the record contains the correct and intended versions of the songs on it, that the sound quality is acceptable and that the playing order is correct.

Test pressings are usually found without printed covers. They are usually packaged in plain white covers. Often they will be accompanied by a “label copy sheet,” which is a sheet of paper that contains the information that would ordinarily be printed on the label of a finished album – the album title and catalog number, the name of the artist, song titles and running times, the name of the record company and publishing information for the songs themselves.

Collector Interest in Test Pressings

Collectors like test pressings for many reasons.  While they are made further along in the manufacturing process than acetates, test pressings are usually the first discs made from production stampers, so they will likely sound better than commercially available, or “stock” copies of the records sold in stores.

Scarcity – Test pressings, like acetates, are also relatively rare. While acetates may be unique or limited to just a couple of discs, test pressings. are usually manufactured in larger, though still limited, quantities. Unless test pressings are made to be issued as promotional copies, they are generally limited to no more than twenty copies, though the number of discs manufactured can vary widely.

1. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2022 Remaster)
2. Kamera (2022 Remaster)
3. Radio Cure (2022 Remaster)
4. War on War (2022 Remaster)
5. Jesus, Etc. (2022 Remaster)
6. Ashes of American Flags (2022 Remaster)

1. Heavy Metal Drummer (2022 Remaster)
2. I'm the Man Who Loves You (2022 Remaster)
3. Pot Kettle Black (2022 Remaster)
4. Poor Places (2022 Remaster)
5. Reservations (2022 Remaster)

1. Anniversary (Nothing Up My Sleeve) [American Aquarium Version]
2. Venus Stopped the Train (American Aquarium Version)
3. Poor Places (American Aquarium Version 1)
4. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (American Aquarium Version)
5. American Aquarium
6. Cars Can't Escape (American Aquarium Version)
7. Kamera (American Aquarium Version)
8. War On War (American Aquarium Version)
9. I'm the Man Who Loves You (American Aquarium Version)

1. Ashes of American Flags (American Aquarium Version)
2. Not for the Season (Laminated Cat) [American Aquarium Version]
3. Shakin' Sugar (American Aquarium Version)
4. Let Me Come Home (American Aquarium Version)
5. Poor Places (American Aquarium Version 2)
6. Reservations (American Aquarium Version)
7. Not for the Season (Laminated Cat) [Here Comes Everybody Version]
8. Remember to Remember (Hummingbird) (Here Comes Everybody Version)
9. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Here Comes Everybody Version)
10. Kamera (Here Comes Everybody Version)

1. Radio Cure (Here Comes Everybody Version)
2. War on War (Here Comes Everybody Version)
3. Venus Stopped the Train (Here Comes Everybody Version)
4. I'm the Man Who Loves You (Here Comes Everybody Version)
5. The Good Part (Here Comes Everybody Version)
6. Pot Kettle Black (Here Comes Everybody Version)
7. Ashes of American Flags (Here Comes Everybody Version)
8. Poor Places (Here Comes Everybody Version)
9. Shakin' Sugar (Here Comes Everybody Version)
10. Reservations (Here Comes Everybody Version)

1. Cars Can't Escape (Here Comes Everybody Version)
2. A Magazine Called Sunset (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
3. Remember to Remember (Hummingbird) [The Unified Theory of Everything Version]
4. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
5. Kamera (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
6. Radio Cure (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
7. War on War (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
8. Jesus Etc. (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)

1. Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky Mix)
2. Heavy Metal Drummer (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
3. I'm The Man Who Loves You (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
4. Pot Kettle Black (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
5. Poor Places (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
6. Reservations (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
7. Love Will (Let You Down) [Lonely in the Deep End Version]
8. Lost Poem Demo (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
9. I'm The Only One Who Lets Her Down (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
10. Has Anybody Seen My Pencil? (Lonely in the Deep End Version)

1. The Good Part (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
2. A Magazine Called Sunset (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
3. A Magazine Called Sunset (Backing Track) [Lonely in the Deep End Version]
4. Anniversary (Nothing Up My Sleeve) (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
5. Kamera (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
6. I'm The Man Who Loves You (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
7. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
8. Jesus, Etc. (Lonely in the Deep End Version)
9. Reservations (Backing Track) [Lonely in the Deep End Version]
10. Let Me Come Home (Synth) [Lonely in the Deep End Version]
11. Ooby Dooby (Lonely in the Deep End Version)

1. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
2. I'm the Man Who Loves You (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
3. War on War (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
4. Kamera (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
5. Radio Cure (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
6. A Shot in the Arm (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)

1. I'm Always in Love (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
2. Sunken Treasure (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
3. Jesus, Etc. (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
4. Heavy Metal Drummer (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
5. Pot Kettle Black (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
6. Ashes of American Flags (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
7. Not for the Season (Laminated Cat) [Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02]

1. Reservations (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
2. California Stars (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
3. Red-Eyed and Blue (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
4. I Got You (At the End of The Century) [Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02]
5. Misunderstood (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
6. Far, Far Away (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
7. Outtasite (Outta Mind) [Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02]
8. I'm a Wheel (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)
9. She's a Jar (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)