Fans Try To Buy U2 Vinyl At Record Store Day; Get Tool EP Instead

Apr 19, 2015

None

None

1.

u2 tool vinyl

U2 fans (who somehow exist) got curved in the best way possible during yesterday’s Record Store Day.

Songs of Innocence, otherwise known as the Great iTunes Plague of 2014, got a vinyl pressing for the band’s Record Store Day exclusive release. Someone who understands the very essence of trolling (perhaps the Universe itself, perhaps a U.K. prankster) decided to put Tool’s 1992 Opiate EP inside the innocuous dad-rock vinyl sleeves.

Beleaguered London U2 fan Dianne Delahunty was the first to report the issue (to Twitter at least)…

3.

Screen Shot 2015-04-19 at 12.51.53 PM

…a fact she discovered after waiting in line for 4 hours :(

4.

Screen Shot 2015-04-19 at 12.51.29 PM

Twitter had predictably great jokes about the poetic mix-up—check out some of our favorites below:

(FACT)

Pigeons And PlanesU2

latest_stories_pigeons-and-planes