SirNarwhal

Exactly. Former crack addict and current Scientologist. I'm just going to chalk it up to him not having all the facts.

That explains the GSL part. I can't find the gold one anywhere, but I distinctly remember pictures of it existing. I don't even know why this is an issue; just look at the liner notes on the MOV release. It's legit and licensed. The band didn't know. That's the end of it.

http://forum.thecomatorium.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127075 That's the black one, but there were gold bootlegs floating around too.

The info there is wrong, there's a post over on the comatorium forums from someone who bought it and it was gold and not from GSL at all, it was just listed as GSL to look official and confuse people.

That is NOT the only gold one. The bootleg from last year was pressed on gold as well: http://www.discogs.com/Mars-Volta-De-Loused-In-The-Comatorium/release/5211738, the Music on Vinyl press is legit and was just done without the band knowing most likely. Cedric doesn't have his shit straight most likely since he was probably informed of a gold bootleg coming from Europe (the one from December in Germany) and now he's seeing the MOV release, also from Europe, and just equating them when they're two VERY different releases. Add in that the MOV release was done without the band knowing and done directly through the EU rights owners and it confuses things more to him. The bootleg is direct from the CD whereas the MOV release is licensed by Universal Europe (has all this shit listed in the liner notes) and even SOUNDS different. The MOV release is very clearly from the analog audio masters (listen for the moog on the background of Cicatriz ESP that is barely audible on the CD version). It's not a bootleg, he's just misinformed.

Ok so I got some more info on this today from the man with the big hair himself. The band had NO clue about the pressing and apparently Sony Music Canada was working on their own on this. He also confirmed it's been canceled and that he has no clue what's up with it really, but he DID say that he wants to release it on vinyl at some point, so I guess there's that.

Yup. You brought up the main issue. It was a co-release between Sony via Columbia and Equal Vision. Equal Vision still has a stake in everything I'm almost positive of so any release things would have to go through both it seems and as much as Sony wants to just act alone it looks like they can't. Maybe we'll see it next year for its 10th anniversary. Who knows. I'll try to ask Claudio tomorrow at his signing.

It wasn't pulled, it sold out. Myself and two others I checked with still have all of our order info and our orders weren't changed at all/cancelled.