{"id":1846,"date":"2010-05-14T04:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:10:16","slug":"the-melvins-box-set-printed-on-an-1890s-antique-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/the-melvins-box-set-printed-on-an-1890s-antique-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Packaging: The Melvins Box Set Printed on an 1890s Antique Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[\n\n<div>\nA box set that&#8217;s letterpress printed on an antique press from the 1890s?\nHow cool is that!\nThe <a title=\"Melvins\" href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2736-melvins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melvins<\/a>, through their myspace,\u00a0 reveals plans for a gigantic and extremely limited box set that they&#8217;ll sell at shows and online. The set includes 13 different albums from the Pacific Northwest sludge-rock godfathers, including their new one, <em>The Bride Screamed Murder<\/em>, out June 1 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipecac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ipecac<\/a>. And the packaging was printed in just about the most outmoded way imaginable.\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe band writes that the box &#8220;has been letterpress printed on an antique press from the 1890s. The press is powered by a treadle and fed by hand. Each individual CD package has gone through the press from four to eight times.&#8221; These things have to be a tremendous pain in the ass to make, and the Melvins aren&#8217;t making many of them: the box is limited to 300 copies.\nNext month, the band launches a huge North American summer tour; dates here.\n<strong>_____________________________________________________<\/strong>\n<strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD\/DVD\/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.\n<input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/>]]>    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A box set that&#8217;s letterpress printed on an antique press from the 1890s? How cool is that! The Melvins, through their myspace,\u00a0 reveals plans for a gigantic and extremely limited box set that they&#8217;ll sell at shows and online. The set includes 13 different albums from the Pacific Northwest sludge-rock godfathers, including their new one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-manufacturing"],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34514,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/34514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}