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We still don‘t even know if the band is involved in it or if it‘s a fan project. Don‘t expect things that might be unrealistic and then get disappointed.

I think the artwork looks good, a part of me wishes it would look more like HT20 to create like a fitting collection though.

Lost would be the equivalent to the She Couldn't single release from HT20, not the ITE demo.

FWIW the website code suggests that there are multiple phases and we are in phase 1 right now. Phase 2 could start after the timer hits 0, but it could progress independently from that and it starts to reveal other things before the final big announcement takes place when the countdown is over. Or it means nothing and the reference to phases are just leftovers, you never know.

Now that you say it I remember people doing that in like ICQ statuses or whatever. But I don't recall filenames being called like that on filesharing platforms like limewire, emule, kazaa or whatever the names were and I guess that's the reference.

I don't want to complain just want to point out some things that are historically incorrect. Spongecase (wRiTiNg LiKe ThIs) wasn't a thing until 2017 and things were never named like this back then on file sharing platforms (which I guess is the reference). Adding leetspeak tags to filenames was what people did back then, which usually held information like the group who leaked the track, the origin/source and the encoding. Also sometimes people wrote everything in all uppercase besides the i (e.g. LiNKiNGPARK-NUMB.exe) but I don't know the historical background around that. Blue screens didn't collect information about the crash until Windows 8 which wasn't released until 2012. In the Windows 98/2000/ME/XP times, Bluescreens were super basic and they just gave you an error code. As I said, I am not complaining that those things are wrong, no sane person thinks about all those small details, just thought it's interesting to point out for whatever reason (I guess no one actually cares though and people will think I am crazy 😄)

Thinking about it, I am so happy now that they didn't waste a DVD slot for LIT. Also in case you missed the product page: a cached version is available on google btw in case you missed it, a cached version of the product page is still available: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F1WSB_Ybxe0J:https://store.warnermusic.com/en/linkin-park/meteora-20th-anniversary-limited-super-deluxe-edition/093624880998.html&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=de&client=firefox-b-d

Yes.

No Collision Course was to be expected since that involves Jay-Z which complicates things by a lot I guess.

The fact that they chose pretty much the exact same format for M20 as they did for HT20 makes me really hopeful that they will keep these 20th anniversary releases coming and that's honestly what makes me the most exciting. Can't wait to have a full collection of all albums in that format at one point.

Other versions: 3 CD Set Vinyl Set Digital Download

High resolution image of the package content

Fan sites have been involved in the marketing for the band before so it‘s nothing unimaginable.

LPCatalog is run by fans.

lol my phone cut the image right above that and thought the cover is all. Thanks for pointing that out.

That‘s not new or am I missing something else in the picture? https://www.amazon.com/One-Step-Closer-Becoming-Linkin/dp/1682619672

Numb definitely has clean guitar.

I am fully aware that sometimes you don't want to mention your source because that can screw it up for future leaks, but can you give us a vague idea what the type of source for this is martinez? Not questioning it's legitimacy of it, I am just curious.

Super random post but my mind is so weird. Back in 2007 or whenever I found out about LPLive all that information from 2000 seemed ancient and it was crazy how more information about those early times was able to surface over time. To me all that stuff was lost in time already anyway, who would remember random details from 5-8 years ago, so why bother searching for it? Now in 2023 a 16 year old setlist shows up and I am like "cool, glad that got sorted out" and it doesn't seem out of the ordinary at all to me. Just some random thought, but it is super interesting how perception of time changes when you get older. Maybe there is also a change of how you perceive things that happened before you get involved into something and things that happen while you are already involved. Anyway, really cool that this can be removed from the list of things that are still a mystery. It's great that there are still people around who are heavily invested into archiving all information possible.

In before it's about some crypto stuff no one cares about.

That was to be expected, lol. I just wonder why they bother with announcing something like that if they don't commit to it? They could just write "from time to time" and it would be fine.

It was Christmas. I am not even at home the most time and so are a lot of other people. Also the only interesting thing was already posted: pictures of the prints. Everything else looks like before.

Maybe some interesting context if you are not familiar with Warcraft: Many consider the Arthas storyline peak Warcraft lore. Wrath of the Lich King (the World of Warcraft expansion which revolves around the conclusion of that story arc) is also considered to be peak World of Warcraft. So both from the lore itself and the gameplay it's the golden age of Warcraft for a lot of people. It's a very delicate topic. Touching anything around that is just really difficult because of that. I am not sure if he was aware of that context, but if I was an artist, I would have noped the fuck out if someone asked me to do something similar.

This was unexpected. It has some interesting elements but it‘s not something I will go back to and listen to on a regular basis. The Warcraft community doesn‘t seem to be too big about this either. I also find it kinda ironic that Mike did a song for WoW Classic, which is basically for people who are the definition of „everything used to be better“ and who can‘t deal with anything new or changed. The same type of people that would still say that LP should do HT3 nowadays.

Got the new replacements a couple of days ago. It includes all three prints, all DVDs (not just the misprinted), the rarities CD and the lanyard. I haven't had the time to compare everything in detail or check the CD yet, but the lanyard looks like the one from the first replacement.