Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 135

People will say she's not forcing anyone but she's cultivated a mentality with her fans that that they DO need to buy it.

 

She absolutely has! And that’s to say nothing of the people who just like those songs and want that album, but already have the proper TTPD and don’t want to buy it again. I’ve even been coming around on the anthology songs, after not caring for most of them much. I’d happily buy just that album, but no such thing seems likely to ever exist.

 

i'm just glad Hozier was kind enough to say "hey, if you already bought the album but want the new deluxe version, here's a copy with only disc 3 that you can slide discs 1 & 2 into"

 

I don't follow him, really, but that's super cool that he did that!

 

i guess i would've preferred a delayed deluxe drop over how it was all on streaming so soon after, but idk I'm a pretty recent/casual fan of Taylor, i haven't listened to part two yet simply because i prefer physical over streaming. i'm glad i decided to collect her stuff on cd rather than vinyl, the latter would've just been too costly for an artist i don't have too strong a connection to. on rsdbf instead of going for Anthology (which I admittedly didn't even know dropped at Target) I went for the So Jealous reissue because I've been listening to Tegan and Sara for the better part of two decades and already had a few of their albums on vinyl. I generally don't mind Target exclusives tho, sometimes their variant is the color i prefer, or they have a cooler cover.

 

Restock at my target - hate the packaging on this

 

Really just not a fan of the visual aesthetic of this particular album cycle.

 

Anyway, restock online as well.

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (target Exclusive, Vinyl) : Target

 

i've got a copy coming in the mail by the end of this week. hoping nothing is warped or damaged. somehow my copy of Red TV was fine save for some centering problems on the first disc.

realistically, if she wants a whole booklet and enough room for all the discs, she should do a thicker gatefold similar to The Fragile (where each side is the thickness of a larger single LP sleeve). but i guess this is more cost-effective effective?

the digital cover for The Anthology is much better and should've stayed for physical copies despite being the same as one of the alternate covers for the base album.

 

I like the vinyl picture…the way her hair falls and is in a bow is very aesthetic

 

Yea this is easily my favorite cover (all of em really)/aesthetic since Red

 

I'm just gonna pretend my vinyl is special cause I waited outside in the cold for it.

 

i want the songs but yeah really only like the og cover and the black dog cover. this one is easily the worst of them all.

 

ignoring the plethora of limited variants and their respective covers, i'd say this one ranks in the middle for me when compared to the other 4 base covers. standard is best followed by Black Dog, then after Anthology it's Bolter then Albatross

 

I'm fine with just the original

 

Unfortunately because of how my brain works I had to buy The Anthology vinyl even though I don’t even like it lol

 

I don’t need to complete her discography right now. I’ll wait to get this once vinyl falls out of fashion.

 

What Kacey did for Deeper Well is so much better than this Anthology release. Just the bonus tracks (plus a woodland sound experience!), no need to buy the album you already bought again.

 

Of course, but as we have established many times, Taylor cares about sales numbers and boosting TTPD as a singular release. Separating them would not count toward our Capitalist Queen's records and sales numbers. Kacey doesn't care.

 

Did anyone pick up the book? I was going to grab it for my fiance for Christmas, but I've seen/heard anecdotally that it's of very poor quality and littered with spelling errors.

 

more like The Errors Tour Book, amirite?

in all seriousness, i've considered this as a potential Christmas gift, but have held off after hearing the same

 

I got the book and I didn’t read it, just flipped through but it was pretty good quality imo especially for the size and price

 

There were some photos that made me think, “hm, this photo doesn’t seem to be as high definition as the one next to it.” Maybe she prioritized photos where she looked good over quality (probably what I would do). The physical book seemed fine to me. I didn’t see any typos but I think they were mostly in the surprise song list which I wasn’t going to read. The most disappointing part was that I didn’t see myself in any of the crowd shots :(

 

Someone on Reddit showed that a lot of the pictures were just screenshots from the movie and some of the photos are low quality.

 

I know she at least left off a couple of shows in the list of dates.