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Forget the tools and ties for dear old Dad this Father's Day. What he really wants is the Beastie Boys' new tunes on vinyl -- or so the message goes from a new video uploaded, on June 15, by the band, on Youtube.

Because of an internet leak of the Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Part Two album, the band was forced to stream the entire thing (the explicit version), on their website, before their actual June release date. By the end of April, the CDs and digital downloads of the album were (and are) made available on iTunes, Amazon, and Best Buy. The focus for this new video, however, is on the sale of the vinyl format, which Mike D. says "...will be slightly different then the other formats. But please know that our corps. of engineers and experts have been on this, making sure the wait is worth it and that I can personally tell you that in my humble opinion, the test pressing of the vinyl sounded banging on my home hi fi."

This isn't the first video released to promote the album. There was a 30-minute video, on the Beastie Boys' YouTube channel, called Fight for Your Right Revisited, which features a number of celebrities - Seth Rogen, Stanley Tucci, Jack Black, Danny McBride, Elijah Wood, Will Ferrell and Susan Sarandon, among others.

All formats of the album are available via their website, and are listed as packages from $10.99--which includes a digital download plus bonus song Make Some Noise (Passion Pit Remix)--to the $74.99 deluxe package--which includes the CD with 8 panel digipak fold-out design, 9-panel fold-out poster designed by Mike Mills, a 2 x 180 gram white gatefold vinyl, a digital album download card, 2 extra bonus tracks + remix (delivered digitally via e-mail) and a bonus 7-inch vinyl.

Last we checked, the deluxe package was selling fast on their site. So if you're a fan of vinyl, best get to their site as quickly as possible. There is a disclaimer for orders placed after April 19 for packages containing vinyl, which is that it won't ship until July. If you can't wait that that long, there are still plenty of CDs and digital downloads available on the aforementioned websites listed above.

If your Dad's a fan of the Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two will take them back to when the Beastie Boys were in their prime. They sound refreshed, and are all about the fun again. FYI, Mike D just posted the remix version of their first single, Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win by Major Lazer, on their blog site.


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