Animal Collectives Animal Crack Box

So apparently E-Bay is the now place to check if you're looking for vinyl test-pressings of rare collections of live material.

This "Animal Crack Box" is up for auction on E-Bay (Click HERE to check it out) and aside from looking totally awesome and something this writer would sell his left-foot for, it  also contains a whole bunch of insanely cool live recordings from the Animal Collective.

The box is being sold by the Catsup Plate label and 100% of all profit is going toward Doctors Without Borders (a Nobel Peace Prize winning medical humanitarian organization).

The commercial versions of the box-set aren't due for another couple of months and apparently, they will be limited to just one thousand copies.

The auction page states:

"Copies of the full boxed set won't be available for a couple months yet (PLEASE don't contact us about it -- we simply don't know all the details as to when it will be available). There will be 1000 copies total, with no CD release. Copies will most likely not go through any traditional distributor channels, which means you won't find these at your local record store or through amazon.com or anything like that. All the art is silkscreened by the good folks at VG Kids, the LP jackets, the slipcase and the outer strip, everything. The amazing illustrator Jon Vermilyea did the drawings and the whole package was designed and art directed by Rob Carmichael, SEEN. We're very excited about this project."

"One generous person can have the opportunity to obtain all three approved test pressings, housed in the very same screen printed packaging that the "real" edition will be in. This is a one-of-a-kind item. We will not be selling any more of the test pressings."

This is not only a fantastic opportunity to get some rare material but it's also going toward a good cause and though it's a little pricey, it may well be worth it.

The track listing and recording information for the three CD box-set is as follows.

Animal Crack Box Track Listing:

A:

A1. Jimmy Raven
A2. Ahhh Good Country
A3. Iko Ovo

A1 and A2 recorded live to MiniDisc 18 September 2000 at the Cooler, NYC by Avey/Panda. A3 recorded live to MiniDisc fall 2000 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda.

B:

B1. Pumpkin Gets a Snakebite
B2. Pumpkin's Hallucination
B3. Pumpkin's Funeral

B1 and B3 recorded live to MiniDisc February 2001 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda/Geologist. B2 recorded live to MiniDisc 25 February 2001 at Mercury Lounge, NYC by Avey/Panda/Geologist.

C:

C1. Jungle Heat
C2. Hey Friend
C3. De Soto De Son

C1 and C2 recorded live to MiniDisc winter early 2001 at 67 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda. C3 recorded live to MiniDisc August 2000 at Mercury Lounge, NYC by Avey/Panda.

D:

D1. Oh Sweet
D2. Young Prayer #2
D3. Do the Nurse

D1 partly recorded live to MiniDisc summer 2002 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Deakin and partly recorded live to MiniDisc 18 October 2002 at Warsaw, Brooklyn by Avey. D2 recorded live to MiniDisc fall 2002 at Bard College, NYC by Avey/Panda. D3 recorded live to MiniDisc 18 October 2002 at Warsaw, Brooklyn by Avey.

E:

E1. Ice Cream Factory
E2. Hey Light
E3. Two Sails

E1 and E3 recorded live to MiniDisc March 2002 at Tonic, NYC by Avey/Panda/Geologist/Deakin. E2 recorded live to MiniDisc winter early 2002 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda/Geologist/Deakin.

F:

F1. Don't Believe the Pilot
F2. Who Could Win a Rabbit
F3. Mouth Wooed Her
F4. Covered in Frogs
F5. We Tigers

F1 and F2 recorded live to MiniDisc July 2003 at New World Brewery, Tampa, FL by Avey/Panda. F3 recorded live to MiniDisc June 2003 at a house party in Brooklyn by Avey/Panda. F4 recorded live to MiniDisc sometime and somewhere in 2003 (recording details are lost) by Avey/Panda. F5 recorded live to MiniDisc October 2003 at Concorde 2, Brighton, UK by Avey/Panda.