Glass Floor

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Release Date: 2004

Label: Foreign Leisure

Special hand-numbered version, with random "bargain bin" jackets, limited to 50 copies, and sold during the band's 2004 tour. The disc and lyric sheet insert are identical to the standard release of FL-003, however all 50 copies of this limited edition are housed in random bargain-bin record jackets with screen-printed labels on the front and back of the jacket. Two copies of this version (#20 and #36 of 50) are pictured here; #20 is in a jacket for The Four Lads' Ten Million & Still Counting LP, and #36 is in a jacket for Loggins & Messina's Native Sons LP.

Here is a quote from an email received from Josh Modell, a contact from the Foreign Leisure record label, with details about this version (email dated January 13, 2015):

"Here's what happened: When you press vinyl, you basically never get exactly the number that you order. The vinyl plant and the sleeve printer always do an overrun, in case there are problems with any of them, so you get at least as many as you wanted. With Glass Floor, the vinyl plant ran over by 50 or so, while the sleeve printer was pretty much right on the money--so we had 50-ish extra LPs but no sleeves to put them in. (Oftentimes bands will use those as promos or whatever.) So we went out and bought 50 crappy used records and screen-printed the info on over them. (It's not stickers, every copy was screen printed by me or a member of the band at the time. Jeremy from Arcade Fire was in Maritime for that very brief time, too, so you may have an Arcade Fire-related rarity...)

So anyway, those 50 are all different from each other. The vinyl itself is from the exact same batch as the first pressing. The band took them on that tour only and sold them all right away, to however many lucky folks were interested. I'm pretty sure everybody kept one, so there are probably 35-40 out in the wild. The person's face, in case you didn't know, is Eric Axelson. We also made a batch of T-shirts with that print."

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