THE RATIONAL ACADEMY : NEW ALBUM PRESSING
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High Quality Digital Download<br /> <br /> Even though our downloads are always free you might feel like kicking some money our way? People sometimes do - this one time a lady in Japan paid $200 for our entire digital catalogue!...so we sent her some records and a t-shirt anyway.
High Quality Download + Exclusive Bonus Track<br /> <br /> Same as above but includes an exclusive 'Digital Only' Bonus Track!
12" Gatefold + Download<br /> <br /> Is what it says. You will get a copy of our new record in hazy colour 12" vinyl format complete with Gatefold sleeve (gatefold are those cool ones that open up.... like Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band....ask yr parents) + a High Quality download for your iPhone! International Pledgers will need to round up to $30 to help cover postage.... don't even get me started!
12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /><br /> <br /><br /> As above, but you will also receive an exclusive new Rational Academy T-Shirt printed by #7th Disaster only available to those who pledge money here - don't forget to tell us your size and gender! International Pledgers will need to round up to $45 to help cover postage.... seriously, someone has to do something about this!!
Invite only house show + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> We're limiting the capacity to 50 people. We'll be preforming a one off show in a similar vein to the stripped back sets we preformed at Tokyo's Komyo-Ji Temple late last year. We'll provide a carton or two of beer and announce a support act closer to the date. Of course you also get the hazy colour gatefold 12" pressing of our new record, the digital download and the exclusive new T-shirt available only to pledgers.
1970's Greco SG used by Luke & Ben + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> Purchased in Tokyo's Famous Ochanomizu neighborhood for our 2011 tour - at this price its actually less than what we paid for it! Perfect condition, all original, looks and plays like a dream and its a nice dark cherry red! If you live in Brisbane we'll deliver this to your door - if yr elsewhere we're going to have to talk postage!
Les Paul Copy used by Ben + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> We've long held the belief that cheaper guitars, mixed with our "high end" ones can help colour the sound on our records - it works for Sonic Youth! To this end we have quite a few. This is one of Ben's. Feeds back good + with a decent fuzz sounds mean! Cool stickers on the headstock (girls with machine guns and a white lion!) If you live in Brisbane we'll deliver this to your door - elsewhere we'll have to talk postage!
"Winter Haunts" Fuzz Pedal + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> Our Bass player Matt makes amazing guitar pedals under the name "Headless Sky Effects" - you cant find them at Tym's anymore becuz they ALL SOLD OUT. Here's your chance to own an exclusive Rational Academy "Winter Haunts" Fuzz Pedal - only TWO exist in the WORLD! Of course you also get the hazy colour gatefold 12" pressing of our new record, the digital download and the exclusive new T-shirt available only to pledgers.
Epiphone SG used by Ben + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> After Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel tried his best to completely destroy it, Ben fitted a 70's style Les Paul Pickguard and replaced the pickups (GFS Liverpool Retrons). Has a sticker of a Viking longboat on the body and a cat on the back headstock. Used it to record double tracked solos on the song "Vast Uncertain". If you live in Brisbane we'll deliver this to your door - if elsewhere we'll have to talk postage!
Orange "Stratocaster" used by Luke & Ben + 12" Gatefold + Download + Exclusive T-Shirt<br /> <br /> Perhaps the hardest to part with. Has been used on every record we've made. Pulled apart, upgraded (aged cream pickguard, pickups and a sneaky "Fender" decal), and really loved. Could use a decent setup and an eventual fret dressing. Cat from Brisbane band Dreamtime refers to it as "Tangerine Dream". If you live in Brisbane we'll deliver this to your door - if yr elsewhere we're going to have to talk postage!