PiL* – Metal Box

Does anyone have just the insert that they'd like to sell me? Very interested!

Came across a copy recently for £5 at a carboot, insane find. NM records too, any ideas how to clean the tin, there must be something to do to clean it up a bit.

I had this for Christmas 1979.. I still have it. Slightly oxidised tin but i love it still.. Poptones!!

Zigzag magazine published an insert (effectively) with all the lyrics (I do remember one "correction" where "you are unbeatable" had been modified to "you are unbearable") - you could prize it out of the centre of the magazine. Also, it didn't ruin the magazine itself as it effectively had printed the inner pages twice!

This didn't happen often as there are "music copyright clearance" issues with printing lyrics (Smash Hits would pay a lot of money to do what they did), but as ZigZag was somewhat of a high production values 'fanzine', I'm guessing they "got away with it" (unless you know different...)

seeking just the insert if anybody is looking to just to sell that worthless piece of paper...

Any UK seller with just the tin in reasonable state they want to sell? Please message me. Though I kind of love my version - the three original vinyls in handmade filthy worn sleeves with the lyrics and other annotated pictures glued to exteriors. Car boot in Cornwall some years ago. Still sounding as fresh as ever. (As a tender 16 yr old saw them at Futurama in Sept 1979, and they blew my mind...)

For information. I bought this the week it was released. It did NOT have the printed sheet inside. However, this must have happened to many of the initial batches which went out for sale. I remember getting a copy of the insert in one of the music papers a few weeks later (either NME or Sounds). This might explain why a lot of copies appear to be missing the insert.
Still loving my copy. Very little of the tin remains untarnished, but I like it that way. The inside has faired better, but has tarnished where greasy fingerprints have been (possibly due to salt in sweat). Again, I don't mind this.

Any suggestions for how to store this? Something about keeping these in the tin, separated by the paper dividers, makes me feel like they will be damaged. Maybe I'm paranoid but I feel like keeping the vinyl in poly sleeves with the tin kept separate... is this ridiculous?

Hi all! What sort of value would you give to just the tin?

Many thanks,

Henry

Apologies in advance if this is a non-point, which everyone finished talking about 40 years ago, or even if not that, it is beyond pedantic.

But anyway, in my copy of the film-can metal box release, on three of the four circular white paper dividers, the lyrics are printed in red capitals. In two places, corrections have been made. First, in the lyrics to Albatross, the line “another will not forget” has been tippexed out and overtyped with “If I wanted”. Second, in the lyrics to Memories, the last “and on” in one line has been deleted in the way one could with the ribbon in a typical typewriter from the 70s (so that it is still legible).

Were printed lyrics (whether with or without corrections) a standard feature of the initial release? Or has a previous owner of what is now my copy unilaterally typed up the lyrics and then corrected a couple of self-made mistakes?