Sold Date: January 31, 2024
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This is a super rare printing and box set of The United Nations The Next Four Years.  I picked this up at a small show in NJ at Asbury Lanes where United Nations were playing in 2014.  There were only 1000 copies of this box set.  This is #101 of 1000.
This box set includes a 10", 2- 7"s and a cassette.  It is brand new and has never been played.  (C) (P) 2014 by Temporary Residence LTD.
While the album was released in more traditional formats, The Next Four Years was meant to be experienced as a boxed set. The boxed-set version was limited to 1,000 copies that were hand-assembled by the members of United Nations, and features all 11 tracks found on other formats, but split between a cassette tape, a 10" vinyl record and two 7" vinyl records. The cover art of the boxed set features fake news articles and the cassette tape was wrapped in a copy of the actual cease-and-desist letter sent by the actual United Nations. As a boxed set, the series of different formats are meant be a concept album that illustrates and critiques the evolution of the band members themselves from an underground basement act to an experimental. United Nations vocalist Geoff Rickly explained: "This record is more developed and mature because we decided that the best form of critique isn't political or punk critique; it's critiquing ourselves. So the record is a lot more personal—a lists of all the ways we've failed all the things we once believed in, and accepting the status quo of how band things have gotten. It's sort of examining our own level of privilege. The box set is supposed to be a fake mythology of the band. The cassette is the first demo—the band at its most basic—then there's the two 7-inches, and the 10-inch is where we get into our pretentious phase of trying to sound like Godspeed.
Here is the track listing:
7" vinyl "Serious Business" – 3:06 "Meanwhile on Main Street" – 3:00 7" vinyl  "Revolutions at Varying Speeds" – 2:54 "False Flags" – 1:19 "United Nations Find God" – 1:33 "Between Two Mirrors" – 2:42 Cassette "Fuck the Future" – 0:59 "Stole the Past" – 1:50 "United Nations Vs. United Nations" – 2:22 10" vinyl "F#A#$" – 7:12 "Music for Changing Parties" – 2:45
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