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U2 planning five different versions of new album

Extras include an exclusive magazine, book and Anton Corbijn film

December 23, 2008 | 9 Comments
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U2 are set to release five different versions of new album 'No Line On The Horizon', with a host of extras including a new film by Anton Corbijn available to fans.

As well as a standard CD and vinyl issue, 'No Line On The Horizon' will be released in three limited editions, reports Billboard.

The digi-pack version offers the full album along with a 36-page booklet, a fold-out poster and a downloadable film by Corbijn, featuring the music of U2.

A magazine version of the album comes with a 60-page soft cover magazine-style book, along with the Corbijn film as a download.

The most excessive of the five releases is the box set, which features a 60-page hardback book, a second poster and a DVD version of Corbijn's film.

As NME.COM previous reported, U2 are set to release 'No Line On The Horizon' in the UK on March 2.

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Museician

Dec 24, 2008

Can we just have the album please?

a55h01e

Dec 24, 2008

This just seems really gratuitous at this point, what's the purpose, other than being greedy and going after people who are such loyal fans that they'll want to have every version? For someone like Bono, who comes off as such a do-gooder, this is really rather exploitative. Is the record too weak to stand as a normal release? I think after seeing this, I'll be checking it out via file-sharing, you can keep the 5 versions guys, sorry.

Coughing-Up-Blood

Dec 24, 2008

5 versions of, what will definitely be, the worst album of the entire year. Merry bleedin' Xmas everyone! Ho ho ho!

wellduhobviously

Dec 24, 2008

I wish they would spend more effort not being terrible for another ten years. The '00s has been a very bland period for U2, I want the old band back. And Bono's old lack of ego back, too.

daveyboysykes

Dec 26, 2008

I thought they'd been doing different verisons of the same album for years and years!!!!

markiechops

Dec 26, 2008

Bongo and his po-faced Jesus-rocking bandmates, clearly no longer content with saving the world, now want to fleece those parts of it that they haven't yet managed to buy. They had the nerve to massively overcharge for three remastered albums that were over 25 years old earlier this year, and now they want to overmarket another album from the same ideologically vacuous seam they've been mining since 'Pop' went tits-up and forced them to change tack in the '90s. I've now decided that for every mediocre album released by over-protective megabands who're shit-scared of the dent that they think limewire will make to their already enormous bank balance, I'm going to illegally download TEN from their back catalogue, just to spite them. Just what am I going to do with a PC-full of shit Metallica, Oasis and U2 though?

paaul028

Dec 26, 2008

'And Bono's old lack of ego back, too.'And when exactly was that time ?

Willy Plonka

Dec 27, 2008

So much for Bono dictating about climate change, how much extra transport, packaging, print, etc is going to be needed for their album. Do as I say, not as i do. Fuck off you two faced twat. I hope it flops to fuck.

contort25

Dec 28, 2008

jesus none of you have a fucking clue... can we just have the album please one of you states, there is a single album release coming so you wasted your time with that comment... why the fuck would anyone say that this is going after the fans who will want to get every version... what the hell are you on about you a55h01e... why would a fan want the same 36 odd paged booklet 4 times... the same album 5 times, 3 of the same films... this is not a tatic to make anyone buy more then one version... why the fuck would they... worst album of the year ha ha how fcking naive coughing up blood... please go back to your darkend room and listen to records played backwards for signs of the devil while smashing your worthless brain on a brick wall... can you blame bono for having an ego... he's in the biggest band in the world... never made a bad album and is a genius... so i guess that makes u worthless idiots jealous i guess...