My copy of the new Springsteen album arrived over the weekend.
It’s on 2 LPs, but only three of the sides are playable, What would be the fourth/last side does not contain any music. Rather, it is a striking etching into the vinyl of a photo from the album cover. It’s strangely beautiful, but I hope that the idea doesn’t catch on. And, unless they’re very clever, I can’t imagine that anything similar is going on with the CD issue.
(I bought my copy via the USA, but I don’t imagine that European pressings are any different.)
Graham