Capitol Revives Its Historic Record Club But This Time, No Subscription Required

There is something very 2026 about reviving a record club without asking anyone to actually join a record club.

Capitol Records has announced the return of the Capitol Record Club, a newly reimagined vinyl series inspired by the label’s original mail-order club, which introduced listeners to major Capitol titles throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. This new version keeps the spirit of discovery and collectability, but drops the old-school subscription model. Instead, each release will be available individually as a limited-edition, numbered pressing.

The series launches with Sparklehorse’s 1998 album Good Morning Spider, arriving as a deluxe 2LP 45 RPM edition limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies. The album is available exclusively through the Capitol Records Store and is now up for pre-order, with shipping scheduled for July 24. Capitol is also offering a limited-edition Good Morning Spider T-shirt to mark the inaugural release.

For Sparklehorse fans, this is an exciting first entry. Good Morning Spider remains one of the most haunting and distinctive alternative records of the late 1990s, built around Mark Linkous’ fragile songwriting with strange textures and home-recorded atmosphere. This new edition has been mastered for vinyl by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering and spreads the album across two LPs at 45 RPM.

The set includes standout tracks such as “Pig,” “Painbirds,” “Sick of Goodbyes,” “Sunshine,” and “Happy Man.” It also adds an exclusive bonus 7-inch featuring Sparklehorse’s version of “Wish You Were Here” with Thom Yorke, backed with the non-album track “Haint.” For collectors, that makes this one of the most complete vinyl presentations yet of the Good Morning Spider era.

It is a smart move from Capitol: part archival series and part reminder that the major-label vaults still have plenty of corners worth reopening.

We wish we could order them all for a single penny, but we understand that's not feasible.