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Hidden TKOL CD Cover

by King Of Limbs on February 27, 2011

You can always rely on Radiohead fans that they will find whatever hidden element there is in every Radiohead release. Somebody just deciphered the image that was included in the digital version and found hidden CD cover images which will most likely come with the Newspaper album edition.

TKOL CD Cover

We created a video guide for those who want to play Sherlock:

The cover reveals that there are only 8 tracks included on the CD version (same like digital version). Shortly after this video was released we spotted some rage outbursts on the interwebs coming from the fans who were expecting more songs to come with the CD version:

RADIOHEAD - Y U NO GIVE MOAR SONGS

[UPDATE 2. March 2011]: We received this tip on how to get the hidden CD cover if you are on Mac or Unix box (with xmlstarlet installed). Not really sure what all this stuff means but here you go:

perl -ne '/<x:xmpmeta/ && print m!(<x:xmpmeta.+</x:xmpmeta>)!,"\n"' ~dl/The\ King\ Of\ Limbs/thekingoflimbs.jpg | xml sel -N rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" -N xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/" -N xmpGImg="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/img/" -t -v '//xmp:PageInfo//rdf:li/@xmpGImg:image' | openssl base64 -d > cd-cover.jpg

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Joe March 6, 2011 at 2:28 am

I heard Radiohead recently went back into the studio, just saying.

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