NME covermount vinyl

NME is giving away a covermount seven inch, its first vinyl giveaway in more than a decade, which is exciting. For vinyl fans. And White Stripes fans. It being a White Stripes single. The covermount record will feature 'Rag & Bone', a track from the duo's upcoming new album 'Icky Thump'. The b-side will have something etched into it, while the sleeve will be of the gatefold kind, with a slot for the vinyl release of the duo's upcoming single, also called 'Icky Thump', though NME readers will have to buy that one (clever clever, who wants a half empty gatefold in their collection? - I wonder what the chart rule people will make of that?). The free record will come in lovely red vinyl and will be, the NME reckon, the biggest ever pressing of a coloured vinyl record. Personally I always preferred the free flexi-disks magazines used to cover mount. There was something rather special about the way they slightly warped the songs that were pressed on to them. I've still got the Jets flexi-disk that came with Look-In somewhere. And a whole series of Number One magazine flexi-disks. And one that came on the side of a cereal packet somewhere. What was that about? Anyway, NME, White Stripes, red vinyl, all good.