{"title":"2 Vinyl Records for £50","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eStock up and get more wax for your cash. Buy 2 records from the collection below for £50. This offer is UK only and only available on the variants listed below.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"loaded-2","title":"Loaded","description":"\u003cp\u003eLou Reed's \u003cem\u003eLoaded\u003c\/em\u003e was a fitting end for the mighty Velvet Underground. Lou Reed had penned an album seemingly loaded with hits, but by now, four LPs into the Velvets' career, a sad few record buyers appreciated the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter recording the album, Reed called it quits and crawled to his parents' home in the suburbs - the ultimate anti-rock statement. Resignation permeates the album. Reed's voice is noticeably ragged, and bassist Doug Yule ended up recording many of the vocals for the final mix. Drummer Moe Tucker was pregnant, and Yule's brother Billy sat in on drums for most of the \u003cem\u003eLoaded\u003c\/em\u003e sessions, further alienating Reed from the already disintegrating band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis was no longer the art-rock Velvet Underground, but a far more accessible version, relying on Reed's songwriting over the band's overall musicality. Accordingly, the songs are either retreats into the faux innocence of parental ideals (\"\u003cem\u003eHead Held High\u003c\/em\u003e\"), or autobiographical pieces of teenage rebellion (\"\u003cem\u003eSweet Jane\u003c\/em\u003e\"). \"\u003cem\u003eRock and Roll\u003c\/em\u003e\", for instance, reads like text-book angst, where everything your parents do is, well, \"it ain't happening at all\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album appropriately sounds like Reed's final bit of energy for the band. There's the saddened tone of \"\u003cem\u003eOh! Sweet Nuthin'\u003c\/em\u003e\", in which the heroes walk with their \"head[s] down\", and \"\u003cem\u003eNew Age\u003c\/em\u003e\", in which they mingle with \"over the hill\" movie stars. \u003cem\u003eLoaded\u003c\/em\u003e closed a chapter in Lou Reed's chronicles, and solidified the Velvet Underground's significant niche in rock history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rhino","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56473770557771,"sku":"388512","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":56474775388491,"sku":"2210165","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":56474775421259,"sku":"2056905","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":56474775454027,"sku":"2219511-S","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56474775486795,"sku":"395149","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black (Brick \u0026 Mortar Exclusive)","offer_id":57011204063563,"sku":"R8596-0792","price":40.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Loaded_Remastered_c277df70_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726171878"},{"product_id":"dummy","title":"Dummy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic debut \u003cem\u003ePortishead\u003c\/em\u003e album from 1994. The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, \u003cem\u003eDummy\u003c\/em\u003e was made at the same time as a short film noir called To Kill a Dead Man, and the same approach - gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic - permeates the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSour Times\u003c\/strong\u003e (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, \"nobody loves me, it's true\") and the more cryptic \u003cstrong\u003eGlory Box\u003c\/strong\u003e are the lynchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanized electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and grind of the Bristol scene that spawned Barrow's old collaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal-Island Records Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56473767903563,"sku":"1058589","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP.","offer_id":56474875855179,"sku":"2500485-S","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":56474875887947,"sku":"379523","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_dfc1e62b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726232625"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/2for50_badge.png?v=1782734451","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/2-vinyl-records-for-50.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}