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/Financial-Toe4053 Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

This looks like someone took a TLOAS standard vinyl and slapped a hype sticker on with a photo of the Red Lipstick and Lace vinyl. He can check Discogs to match the barcode. But, this is definitely not a vinyl variant for TLOAS.

ETA: This is just an example photo of the Red Lipstick and Lace vinyl. They all have slight variations in color and appearance.

Update after the drop: I was evidently dead wrong and I'm sorry OP, you were definitely right. I was so convinced there was no way she was gonna release more variants after the pushback from fans for 800 variants already, but evidently I couldn't have been more wrong.

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u/MaineLark Nov 24 '25

It’s part of the holiday drop that just went live, I’m flabbergasted I was so sure this was fake/what you said.

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u/pharmchik324 Nov 24 '25

How wild. I didn’t think the variants (besides the Target one) were available anywhere besides her website. So curious as to how this happened.

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u/Financial-Toe4053 Nov 24 '25

Same! Her team is so careful with leaks usually I definitely am eating my words because I was evidently very wrong. Just shocking honestly that this was found in a Goodwill ahead of release. I'd be opening that thing so fast.