Imagine waiting outside a record store for three hours, hoping to purchase an LP you got in your iTunes for free, only to get an EP from a band that hasn’t released new music since 2006 instead. This very unexpected turn of events happened to a couple U.K. shoppers on last weekend’s Record Store Day (April 18), who purchased U2’s Songs of Innocence, but received Tool’s 1992 EP Opiate inside the packaging.
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Two fans — Dianne Delahunty and Stuart Arnott — reported the problem via Twitter after purchasing the Songs of Innocence vinyl at Banquet Records in southwest London. The store’s official Record Store Day Twitter account informed Arnott that a pressing plant error was to blame, likely due to the similarity between the two albums’ sleeve designs. The plant promised to amend the error.
@RSDUK seems there’s a couple of #U2 #RSD15 misprints about – some have a Tool EP inside! pic.twitter.com/wKFFFuR9W6
— Dianne Delahunty (@diannedelahunty) April 18, 2015
Billboard reached out to the purchasers to check in on their quest to find the right LP.