S2PTB Instrumental?

[Brother McDuff]

Do we have any record of a Skills To Pay The Bills instrumental surfacing at any point? For those of you who use Spotify, scroll down to said track on the anthology LP from '99. For some reason it's the instrumental. I don't recall ever coming across this version, so I apologize if this has been available for sometime already, but it was an exciting find nonetheless.

[YoungRemy]

maybe it was available as part of the "design your own custom anthology" promo they were doing during that time? (i never did one)

[bigfatlove06]

Not common, but it's surfaced before!
http://www.beastiemania.com/discog/show.php?r=showvinyl12ic

[dave790]

Did anyone here get their own Anthology? Got any photos? I'm fascinated by it! Such a great idea, sadly a year or two before my time as a young Beasties fan... How did the track selection work? Was it up to 80 minutes per CD (the limit) or a set amount of tracks? For such an awesome concept I've never actually seen any produce...

[MrSmiley1]

I ended up getting one. They were shipped on CD-Rs and most of the top labels are rubbed off.

I filled it with almost every vocal track and remix that was available at the time to chose from. It was so much cheaper to do that than to collect imports, singles, etc. (I ended up getting the singles and imports later anyway.) After that, I filled it with my favorite songs.

I will post a track list later if I remember.

[facedownfall]

Oh I did one of those...it was fun to make.

[Sir SkratchaLot]

Did anyone here get their own Anthology? Got any photos? I'm fascinated by it! Such a great idea, sadly a year or two before my time as a young Beasties fan... How did the track selection work? Was it up to 80 minutes per CD (the limit) or a set amount of tracks? For such an awesome concept I've never actually seen any produce...

I did a couple. One with B-Sides and outakes and one with tracks my wife wanted. The Skills to Pay the Bills instrumental wasn't available with it. Art was similar to the standard version but you could pick your own title.

There were two ways to do the choose your own track. You could fill out a mail-in form, in which case there was a track limit. Or, you could do it online, in which case the number of tracks depended on the total length you could cram in there. They had the same list of tracks for both. I did both ways because after I did my first one online, I decided that I wanted another but the online deal had ended. I figured I'd still have some leighway for the mail-in offer so I sent it in and they honored it.

The only thing I remember seeing that was "new" to me was maybe an extended version of Bodhisattva vow that varied maybe 10 seconds from the album version or something. I'd have to doublecheck on the specifics (and even the track) because my memory is hazy on that.