In connection with Fruits de Mer‘s series of Strange Fish albums, the label produced a very limited set of promotional vinyl singles. As with many other aspects of their Strange Fish series, this was a first one for the label. While reviewing an item that will never be available to the public at large seems to be something of a waste for me personally, I’d like to offer some words on this entity from a different point of view.
As a limited edition vinyl single, of which I presume all editions by now have been sent to the ones who have merited getting a copy, this little block of text is here to notify collectors. If you get a chance to get a copy of this one you should, as long as the price isn’t unreasonable. If this single will ever be worth any great deal of money I can’t really tell, but if you get your hands on it you’ll be a part of a very select audience. And that is the true value of collecting for avid collectors in my mind: Not that what they own have a value stipulated at this or that level, but to have items in your collection that are relatively exclusive that you treasure yourself.