Incoming: White Stripes Live Box UPDATE

Preorders start today, sale priced at only $179 until the end of the year.

By Blurt Staff

Looking for a Christmas gift you don't have to wrap but just can't hang with a Target gift card? Here's a good option - and hey, it comes in red and white, just like Target stuff!

Starting today, surf over to the official White Stripes website where you can pre-order The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights, a limited edition box set featuring two DVDs, a live CD and a live 7", plus a hefty book. It will be available for shipping on March 16.

If the title sounds familiar, that's because it's also the name of the band's new documentary film about their 2007 tour of Canada, which premiered back in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. You can see a trailer of the film here. That will be one of the DVDs in the box, with the other one being a DVD of the band's 10^th anniversary show. Here's exactly what you'll get for your money, which at the moment will be $179 on pre-order and then when the calendar turns to 2010 it will go up to $229.

Ø      Documentary DVD

Ø      DVD of 10^th anniversary show

Ø      16-song live album on CD and 180g vinyl

Ø      Live 7" of "Icky Thump" and "The Wheels on the Bus"

Ø      208-page book w/Jim Jarmusch foreword and photos by Autumn de Wilde

Ø      Silk screen print by Rob Jones

Give it to someone you love, won't you?

 UPDATE - ADDITTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS FROM THE BAND:

All orders placed before January 1st will receive a special holiday card from the band, as well as three exclusive live mp3's of tracks from the 10th Anniversary show instantly upon ordering: "A Martyr For My Love For You," "Hotel Yorba," and "Hello Operator." Additionally, members of The Vault, Third Man Records' groundbreaking online subscription service, will also be sent a special slip mat for their orders placed before the end of the year.  

 
In celebration of the announcement of this limited edition box set, The White Stripes will be premiering footage of their song "Let's Shake Hands" on Myspace.com (myspace.com/thewhitestripes) worldwide at 9 pm PST tonight. This performance of the song was filmed at the band's 10th Anniversary show and can be seen on the second DVD, which goes under the name  Under Nova Scotian Lights.