IMPORTANT NEWS!

Gripsweat is shutting down. Starting on February 1st, 2025 the site will no longer be doing daily updates, adding any new items, or accepting new memberships. The site will continue to run in this "historical" mode until January 1st, 2026, when the site will go offline. More information is available here.

Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography Reinhold Messner vinyl out of print

Sold Date: July 31, 2020
Start Date: July 22, 2020
Final Price: $60.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 64
Buyer Feedback: 22

This item is not for sale. Gripsweat is an archive of past sales and auctions, none of the items are available for purchase.


Perfect sealed copy.

Repressed in 2017 in limited quantities, now out of print. Below is the description from Analog Spark from the 2017 press release:

Out of print on vinyl since its original release/first time mastered for vinyl Sourced from the original mix reels and cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio 180-gram LP plated and pressed at RTI Housed in a Stoughton old style tip-on jacket

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the third and final studio album released by Ben Folds Five before their break up in 2000. Folds’ unique and clever piano-based songwriting shines through on the album, with songs and arrangements that reflect his evolving artistic development. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, with its title humorously taken from the name used on drummer Darren Jessee’s former teenage fake ID, includes singles “Army” and “Don’t Change Your Plans,” and is regarded by the composer himself as the band's “best work.” As the highly-anticipated follow up to the platinum-selling Whatever & Ever Amen, the album was initially dismissed by critics. In subsequent years however, it received a critical reevaluation and has become the hidden gem of Folds catalog. 

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner has since been out of print on vinyl for 15 years and is now, for the first time ever, being reissued on 180-gram vinyl sourced from the original mix reels. Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed and plated at RTI, the album is housed in a Stoughton old style “tip-on” jacket.