Hello everyone,
I have been searching far and wide looking for originals of the elusive albums in VINYL – Proof, Wings, Map of The Soul: 7 and Love Yourself: Answer.
A lot of the places claiming to have MOTS:7 or Answer are pirated/counterfeit. I ended up spending almost $200 from a place that claimed they were authentic until I ended up with records that look and sound horrible (see photos).
I have called local record stores gone online to target, Walmart, tower records, WeVerse, and other U.S. based legal vendors. No one has these records. Does anyone know where I can find them? I’m am happy to pay for it coming internationally from Korea, if there’s a credible source. Thank you.
To my knowledge, none of these albums were pressed into vinyls. They do not exist from official channels or sources because they were never made. HYBE only started printing vinyls around butter era I believe (update: just kidding there is an existing dynamite single vinyl). They did print LY: Tear and LY: Her as specials, but the albums you listed haven’t been made into vinyls yet.
Weverse is the best source of information about album versions and their inclusions. The albums that were released on vinyl are: Love Yourself: Her; Love Yourself: Tear; Jack in the box; Indigo; Face; D-Day; Layover; Golden. At the moment, the vinyl version of Hope on the Street is on pre-sale.
I don’t think MOTS: 7 and Proof were ever on vinyl. However, it looks like LY Tear and Her are still available on WeVerse. The shipping would be from Korea.
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Someone correct me, but I don’t think any of those albums have vinyl versions, except MOTS 7 but this was a single vinyl for On?
We have Tear and Her vinyls, but no Answer. I don’t remember Proof had one.
if Weverse never sold a version they don’t exist
woah wait. but i have mots7 on vinyl and the sound quality is good? this was not official merch? (i got it at a local record store)
edit: woah i just examined them more closely. they ARE fake. i feel sort of silly now. i’m fortunate that the sound quality is good and the vinyls are pretty i suppose
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As far as I know, these are the official vinyls they have released so far:
Run (Japanese Pony Canyon LP)
LY Her
LY Tear
MOTS 7 ON
Dynamite
Life Goes On
Butter
JITB
Indigo
Face
D-Day
Golden
Layover
Wake Up
For You
Hope on the Street vol. 1 (Coming Soon!)
Not sure if there is anything else I’ve missed. I’ve been looking for the Run LP for the longest time but no luck so far 🥺
There was also LP version of White Christmas by V.