.The Magnetic Fields’ ’69 Love Songs’ Coming on 6×10″ Vinyl Box Set

Well, it only took them ten years, but we take such news when we can get it!
The Magnetic Fields’ brilliant song cycle 69 Love Songs is finally seeing a vinyl release. Spread across six 10″ records, each in a separate gatefold sleeve, the set will be bound with a cardboard slipcover and a large version of the CD version booklet. It should be out sometime in August April 20, 2010, it’s apparently limited to 3,000 copies, and it’ll cost about $100.
I’ve had a running list of albums that should be on vinyl going for quite some time, and 69 Love Songs has been right up near the top since its release ten years ago. Most record companies in 1999 didn’t see any benefit to releasing vinyl, although Merge Records has always been great about LPs—they even pioneered the LP+mp3 download coupon idea, which I covered pretty extensively here last year. Now if they could just release Crooked Fingers’ Red Devil Dawn on vinyl, we’d be set!
There’s a whole lotta other dream albums out there that would be released on vinyl if there were any sense of justice in the world. Here’s a few from the ongoing wish list. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments below.

Please, Record Industry: Put These Albums Out on Vinyl!

Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

The Boredoms – Seadrum / House of Sun

Los Lobos – Colossal Head

K’naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher

John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves

James Carter – Chasin’ the Gypsy

Gillian Welch – Time (the Revelator)

The Velvet Teen – Out of the Fierce Parade

Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne

Smoking Popes – Born to Quit

Arvo Pärt – Alina

Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues

Camille – Le Fil

Nellie McKay – Get Away From Me

The Rentals – Seven More Minutes

Don Byron – Ivey Divey

Greg Brown – Over and Under

Bebo & Cigala – Lagrimas Negras

Old 97’s – Too Far to Care

Wynton Marsalis – Live at the House of Tribes

Robert Earl Keen – Gravitational Forces

Knife in the Water – Soundtrack