The White Stripes – My Sister Thanks You And I Thank You The White Stripes Greatest Hits

This is a terrible press.
Surface noise !
Poor sound quality !!

No Rag and Bone is definitely a disappointment. I need to go buy Icky Thump to get that one. I found the "greatest hits" to be a bit of a stretch. There are quite a few songs I like much more that are missing but that is subjective.

The 7 Nation Army Guys were not exclusive to Rough Trade in the UK. My local independent store had some. (They kindly gave some when I made a completely different purchase - possibly White Stripes.)

My copy of this CD (made in Mexico, matrix IFPI 1024 IFPI LY93 57556886/19439822392RD1 21) only has three songs in true lossless audio quality: "Let's Shake Hands", "Jolene", and "Icky Thump". The other 23 songs are all sourced from low-quality MP3 source files. The mastering appears to be the same as the commonly-available album CDs (using the louder "secret" remasters of the first two albums from circa 2001), with a song occasionally lowered in volume to keep the levels consistent. I know that Jack is very dedicated to and involved with the quality of his vinyl releases, so I sincerely hope the LP edition does not use the same crummy MP3 sources. If you're looking for the songs on CD, I recommend buying the albums instead of this so you can get the highest possible quality. (I got all 6 albums for $5 each a few years ago, I'm sure you can find a similar deal without too much difficulty.)

Also, as somebody else questioned the length of the CD, I timed mine and it is 1 hour 21 minutes 43.64 seconds. (I've had some redbook CDs that cram up to an hour and 23 minutes so it's definitely possible.) I suspect some players may have trouble playing this disc. Also, this is standard redbook rather than an MP3 CD, so the poor-quality files do not have any bearing on the length/capacity of the CD – someone was just lazy or uneducated when they put it together.

For a greatest hits compilation, this one hits all the marks. Even the inclusion of Seven Nation Army as the last track reflects pretty much every one of their nightly setlists after 2003. But as a major fan, I've got to have the original albums. Sorry Jack.

In my opinion there are four different versions available:
- Rough Trade exclusive (UK - with toy soldiers)
- FNAC exclusive (- with shipmat)
- Target exclusive (USA - with slipmat)
- Standard (Worldwide)
FNAC and Target have respectively different barcodes compare to the standard release barcode, which is the same as the barcode of Rough Trade.
For a buyer at Discogs it's a challenge to find the desired edition of this release on the market in only one release.
For a seller it's difficult, to offer an exclusive limited edition, which is of higher value compare to the standard edition. His offer at Discogs is listed at the end of the market (>200 offered items), because of the exclusivity.
Also the value of exclusive releases are higher than the standard releases. The average price don't fit here for exclusive releases in only one release.
The Discogs rules could be interpreted different, so I call for different releases, if the barcodes are different to exclusive releases to the standard release.

Mmh, my record shows that lacquers have been cut by Daniel Krieger at SST. Sounds great, but I cannot find it here...

Great double LP anthology, selected and sequenced in a way that makes me wonder if it was compiled by Jack White. Zero issues with this 'Target exclusive' release, the slipmat is a cool touch, and the vinyl is heavy, flat and quiet. My copy was purchased new and plays flawlessly.

A dope compilation but the sound quality of their recordings varies drastically by each album so it's a weird listen. But overall unfortunately Sound quality overall is very bad, very flat and dull. Housed in paper sleeves too...

This is a terrible press. Tons and TONS of surface noise. I've only heard digital versions of these songs and they aren't that great. I'd avoid this record. There is a reason it was in the clearance bin.