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Awesome! Which # out of 50 is yours? Could you post a picture of the back? Part of me wants to find out what all 50 sleeves are and catalog them somewhere! (Probably an impossible task but I'd be interested in trying).

Hello all... reviving this topic for a sec. I did in fact receive 2 copies of the We The Vehicles LP from Foreign Leisure (http://www.foreignleisure.com/). They might still have a few copies left, so go ahead and try to order. BUT that's not all! They sent me yet another copy of the "bargain bin" sleeved Glass Floor LP! This one is #20 of 50. Not sure why they sent me another (I'm guessing it's because I expressed interest in the history behind it), but I'm not complaining! Maybe if you ask them nicely, you can get one too!

FYI - there ARE copies of We The Vehicles left from the Foreign Leisure web site. When I contacted Josh from the label about the history of the Glass Floor LP, he said there is a very small number of the We The Vehicles LP in red vinyl left, so if you are interested, go ahead and order! If you do, I'd suggest maybe shooting him an email after you place the order, just to make sure ... his address is [email protected]

Awesome! Can't wait for the next one... hopefully a tour too!

I got a response from Josh Modell (the guy who runs/ran Foreign Leisure records) this morning... "That's a fun question, I haven't thought about those in a while. Here's what happened: When you press vinyl, you basically never get exactly the number that you order. The vinyl plant and the sleeve printer always do an overrun, in case there are problems with any of them, so you get at least as many as you wanted. With Glass Floor, the vinyl plant ran over by 50 or so, while the sleeve printer was pretty much right on the money--so we had 50-ish extra LPs but no sleeves to put them in. (Oftentimes bands will use those as promos or whatever.) So we went out and bought 50 crappy used records and screen-printed the info on over them. (It's not stickers, every copy was screen printed by me or a member of the band at the time. Jeremy from Arcade Fire was in Maritime for that very brief time, too, so you may have an Arcade Fire-related rarity...) So anyway, those 50 are all different from each other. The vinyl itself is from the exact same batch as the first pressing. The band took them on that tour only and sold them all right away, to however many lucky folks were interested. I'm pretty sure everybody kept one, so there are probably 35-40 out in the wild. The person's face, in case you didn't know, is Eric Axelson. We also made a batch of T-shirts with that print." So that's pretty cool!

Ah man... I saw on the Foreign Leisure site that it was still available to order, but I think that's because the guy who runs the label is too lazy to update the site (hasn't been touched since 2011, sheesh!). I emailed him to see if I could get any info on this version of Glass Floor and to see if there are any other releases available to buy.

Good luck! There's only 50 of these random covered variants. I know of 2 friends in the Philly / NJ area that have them as well. As for the other 47... who knows!

Yep, I thought that might have been implied by my post but let me clarify and add more details about the show: 06/04/04 The First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia Maritime (w/ Mike Kinsella from Owen/American Football on guitar and keyboard) The Arcade Fire Snailhouse That's right... Maritime headlined over a little-known band (at the time) called The Arcade Fire! To be honest, I wasn't that impressed with TAF at the show, but I bought a copy of the "Neighborhood 1" 7" anyway. That was a smart investment at the time! Also picked up a copy of that tour/early release of Glass Floor at the show.

Hello all! First post here so please excuse any violations of etiquette (especially with the large images). I have a copy of Maritime's Glass Floor LP which I bought when they were on tour back in 2004. It's a weird version, as the jacket is actually from Loggins and Messina's Native Sons record, but they pasted new labels on the front and back indicating it's the Maritime record, along with hand numbering on the back (mine is 36 of 50). The contents of the record (the disc itself and the lyrics sheet insert) seem to be what was in the "official" release. See pics here: I believe what happened is that while the band was on tour, they had the LP ready except for the jackets, so they came up with this solution in order to sell the record on tour (I could be remembering this wrong or making it up completely... not sure!). Trying to find out if anyone else has this version of the record, if my recall of why this exists is correct, and if it truly is as rare as the number makes it out to be. Any help would be great, thanks!