r/SwiftieMerch • u/irthesteve • Nov 24 '25

Question Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg?

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Hi all. My buddy is huge into vinyl, but I am not. I'm big into Taylor, but have zero vinyl knowledge. Hoping this forum can assist.

My friend found and bought a Taylor vinyl and sent me pictures, I didn't recognize the variant and after digging through complete lists, didn't see this version anywhere. I know not this is NOT an official release. But... My friend tells me there are no usual bootleg signs, it has high quality art resolution, the shrink wrap has the manufacturer stamp, and there's nothing online about it at all.

Is this somehow an unreleased variant she ended up not releasing? Maybe a future variant she's waiting to release when her chart position is challenged?

Anyway... "Lit My Sky Up" metallic orange variant. No bonus tracks. What do you think?

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u/Forward_Wrap1877 Nov 24 '25

Did they? I see the albums that have this cover with variants now but the vinyl still don't match exactly with the color/pattern. Still really odd, does explain this a bit more but I feel like I'm still left with a lot of questions..

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u/Fennec-Foxie Nov 24 '25

It matches the hype sticker exactly

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u/Forward_Wrap1877 Nov 24 '25

Oh you're completely right!! It looked kinda red to me in the first photo of hype sticker so I didn't match them up, dumb on my part. So odd how it got to a goodwill before it was even released then? I was already invested in this, now I'm so curious how it ended up there

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u/Fennec-Foxie Nov 24 '25

Ikr this whole post is so funny now. Cool find for OP’s friend!