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Fort Minor Wall Goal #2 achieved!
Fort Minor Wall Goal #2 achieved! We now have 201/960 jackets on our mural page! Fort Minor #MyFMVinyl #FMWelcome #FortMinor
Check out the video below and help us out with our next goal of 250!
Interview Month: Collectors Interview #4: Lou
Fourth collector in our interview month is our new friend and also new contributor Lou Ciccone from New York, USA. Here's a quite different perspective on collecting! Enjoy the interview as much as we did and check out the collection photos. They are awesome!
1. First question is the most common question in LP fanbase: the beginning. What or who got You into Linkin Park? Was it a video you saw or a friend who gave You a copy of LP's Hybrid Theory? That brings the 1A question: What was the first item related to LP you've purchased?
I first heard One Step Closer on the radio in 2000. I then saw LP open up for POD in NYC at the Kings of the Game tour headlined by POD. I knew then and there that LP were special. The way they played live and the songs they had fit into my life at the time. And I loved how they mixed rap with metal and a DJ. I then got a burnt CD copy of Hybrid Theory, which I believe I still have to this day, and only owned an original until a few years ago. The first item I ever purchased with LP on it must have been a t-shirt in the early 2000's.
LPU15 HAS LAUNCHED!
LPUXV is finally here! This year LPU has lot's of exciting changes:
- LPU Digital Memberships have decreased from $20 to $10 a year (12 months from the date you join, and not associated with any specific LPU year)
- The LPU15 Bundle this year is $40 - Yes! we lowered the price and still made it special!
- We will be offering a limited edition bundle for $99 (see below for details)
- Not only is there a new LPU CD with 6 brand new unreleased demos, but an additional 6 exclusive tracks to be released bi-monthly to LPU members only. These will be available as a digital download and we will notify fans when each becomes available.
- For the first time ever LPU members can now stream the entire LPU Music catalog for free!
- We have built a brand new page called LPU NOW, here anyone can find out what's going on in the LPU right now. It's also an easy reference for members to find out all exciting things going on!
- We want as many fans as possible to experience LPU. So we set up an easy way to get a FREE 30 DAY TRIAL, just head to LPUnderground.com for details!
- A brand new LinkinPark.com for all to experience. This is where the LPU community lives.
- Please note, we will no longer be using VyRT for future band chats. Stay tuned for more info on that. TinyChat is staying as a way for members to chat with each other.
$10 - LPU Digital Membership
- 1 Year membership to the LPU
- Pre-Sale Tickets + Meet & Greet Opportunities
- Band and Crew Chats
- Access to Download Exclusive Content + Music
- Monthly Giveaways
- LPU Auctions
- Write your own LPU Blog
- Direct Message other members
- Write in the LPU Forum Categories
- Access to Exclusive Events + LPU Summit Passes
$40 - LPU 15 Bundle
- 1 Year LPU Digital Membership
- LPU 15 T-Shirt
- LPU 15 Member Laminate + Lanyard
- LPU 15 CD or Digital Download (You Choose!)
- LPU 15 Guitar Pick
- High Quality Ready-To-Frame Band Photo
- Discount Card to the Linkin Park Store and LPU Store
The first six music tracks for the year are only available as a Digital Download or on CD with the LPU 15 Bundle or Merchandise Package. The next six tracks will be available to you as free downloads every other month and will complete this collection.
$99 - LPU 15 Bundle + Skate Deck (Limited Edition)
- 1 Year membership to the LPU
- LPU 15 Limited Edition Skate Deck*
- LPU 15 T-Shirt
- LPU 15 Member Laminate + Lanyard
- LPU 15 CD or Digital Download (You Choose!)
- LPU 15 Guitar Pick
- High Quality Ready-To-Frame Band Photo
- Discount Card to the Linkin Park Store and LPU Store
*Skate Deck only, not a complete skateboard.
Please note that this limited edition bundle won't ship until January 2016.
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To purchase Your bundle go to LPUnderground.com
Interview Month: Collectors Interview #3: Yuri
Third collector in our interview month is our friend and long-time contributor Yuri known by his nickname Nemesis from Moscow, Russia.
1. First question is the most common question in LP fanbase: the beginning. What or who got You into Linkin Park? Was it a video you saw or a friend who gave You a copy of LP's Hybrid Theory? That brings the 1A question: What was the first item related to LP you've purchased?
Actually, before LP I wasn’t interested in music at all, I didn’t care at all, although my classmates shared LP’s songs in mp3 via bluetooth. First time I saw one of their music videos at MTV (I can’t remember, which one – was it Numb or What I’ve Done). Since that moment I’ve created a folder on my PC, in which I began to download the songs I liked. First it was about 20 songs, and 12-14 of them was LP’s songs. Later my mom bought a pirated CD “mp3 collection” (which even had LPU 2.5 and Grey Daze songs as bonus tracks). During the next couple of years I met a lot of fans, and one of them was a collector. When I saw his collection, I began to want to have at least 1 LP item. At that moment I didn’t thought that later all the shelves in my room (and partially in other rooms) will be full of different versions of albums and singles. Actually, the first item I bought is A Thousand Suns Deluxe Edition, which I ordered with the help of that friend, whose collection inspired me. But while it wasn’t shipped yet, I went to the store and saw (and bought) Russian issue of Road To Revolution, so it also could be named as my first item. Later I started to visit local music stores and to buy Russian CDs, and that friend helped me to order those CDs that wasn’t released in Russia. In 2011 I attended Linkin Park concert, which was the first concert in my life. That was the Transformers premiere show at the Red Square. I think, that this was the moment that changed my life. Since then I found dozens of friends and hundreds of LP fans with whom I am familiar from all over the world. My current hobbies emerged through LP’s music. For example, I began to draw when I tried to copy the artwork from Breaking The Habit DVD.
Interview Month: Collectors Interview #2
Second collector we would like to introduce is our good friend Curt from London, UK. His collection is not as big as Brennans BUT he has some awesome items in his possesion and a cool story to tell!
1. First question is the most common question in LP fanbase: the beginning. What or who got You into Linkin Park? Was it a video you saw or a friend who gave You a copy of LP's Hybrid Theory? That brings the 1A question: What was the first item related to LP you've purchased?
I first heard about Linkin Park in 2006 via a very old friend of mine called Oles who I had met on an online gaming forum. We used to speak most days after school on MSN messenger and we used to send each other music on YouTube that we liked so we could fill our MP3 players. He sent me copies of songs from Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the first being Pushing Me Away and Numb. I proceeded to download their albums a few tracks at a time over the course of a few weeks. I spent the best part of my teenage years listening to Hybrid Theory, Reanimation and Meteora as a way of coping with depression. I have a very fond attachment to those three albums. A little fun and embarrassing fact, I had downloaded Reanimation with the track numbers in the completely wrong order - it took until 2009 to realise and correct the numbers in my iTunes library! The first physical items I bought were far later, probably around 2009 when I brought Hybrid Theory and Meteora in a 2 for £10 deal in HMV (those were the days). I started collecting shortly after this period by accident if I am honest. I decided to buy the rest of LP’s albums a few at a time and thought I would check eBay for better prices. I stumbled upon the numbered single of Crawling and I bought it, followed by the In The End numbered single and the rest is as they say, history.