We regret to announce that the publication of the Two of Jacks Retrospective Box Set has been delayed indefinitely. We were initially negotiating with an uber-trendy Dutch denim designer to sponsor the media push for the release, but imagine our surprise when we found out that 21st century rock stars see fashion shoots as a sideline to sell their music! The designers were only willing to pay us a pittance for the photo shoot, completely undervaluing the sales impact of having two such dynamic performers endorsing their line.
We also realized that producing anything as complex as a retrospective box set, complete with the autographed holoprogram and the t-shirt, was extraordinarily difficult given the lack of cheap on-demand fabrication available. Frankly, we can’t imagine how something like this could be mass-produced and not take a enormous loss. Our next idea was to abandon the box set and do a digital release, but while we were still figuring out the rococo intellectual property rights laws of this century, which seem to differ across geographical regions, our own media push sponsors in the 36th century caught wind of our plans and objected strenuously. In their eyes, a retrospective published in the 21st century was actually a pre-release that would potentially undermine their past sales. We consulted with numerous experts in temporal chronology who all came to the same conclusion: we won’t know until we try it. That wasn’t good enough for our sponsors, unfortunately.
The current plan is that the next time Whirljack and Blackjack emanate, they’ll produce an exclusive release and slap it up on Soundcloud simply as a promo for our literary endeavors. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.