No parcel. No 'sorry you were out' card. :( If I get neither of these tomorrow or Saturday morning at the latest, Sandbag will be on the receiving end of my wrath. OK, that wouldn't scare or shame a kitten but a gesture would be needed.

It's arrived. And its dented at the top, thanks Sandbastards, but the signed photo is gorgeous and the images are lovely!

I'm number 599?!?!?

I was careful with the scissors so it wasn't a big deal.

I live in Pennsylvania and my box originally was delivered on Monday as well

It's a role reversal in my opinion.

Haha thanks! I adore "Lee" and the live tracks! Bit disappointed that the "Stranger" remix is (basically) an instrumental (though still gorgeous) and I'm unfortunately not digging the alternative "Thea" at all. "Nowhere Boy" extract is gorgeous (though a little random).

I was kinda underwhelmed by the book too to be honest, more given that a good few pages were just one line lyrics, others straight out of the regular release booklet, some just straight up screencaps from the videos, and some just tiny thumbnail sized things. There was only a few pages of actual "exclusive" content in it. Alisons note at the beginning was nice though. It kinda seems like they didn't actually shoot a lot for this album though, so maybe thats why. Some studio shots would have padded things a bit...So yeah, you're not alone in that Hells
:P

The bonus disc is nice. Lee is pretty, Stranger remix is suitably haunting, and the version of Thea with Sa is quite interesting, you gotta wonder how that collaboration came about. The live tracks feel good, and i mean feel literally, you get the atmosphere in the air from them. Of course it's kinda spoiled by the fact they only deemed to grace us with 3 tracks. I don't really like the Nowhere Boy stuff, not for me.