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===Physical Product===
''The Slip'' is available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak is limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and includes a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. It was released on July 22, 2008 , in the US and Canada, and on July 21, 2008 , in the UK and Europe.
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered CD/DVD package limited to 250,000 units, with unnumbered editions to be released in the UK, Europe, and Australia with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced to 250,000 overall.
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It was released in the US and Canada on august 5thAugust 5, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th4, 2008.
The physical product also comes with three 4" x 4" stickers, each representing one of 9 illustrations to album songs (printed in booklet or individually embedded in distributed media files), with the difference that none of the stickers have the red lines. The stickers appear in consistent order, which allowed community to dub them 1st, 2nd , and 3rd sticker packs and create The Slip Owners Database [http://theslip.apocalyptech.com].
====Third Disc & 11th Track====
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”.
All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 , at [http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]
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