Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has said the band could collect 50 tracks which were originally made available as fan-club-only releases into a special charity box-set at some stage in the future.
From 1988 to their final year 2011, R.E.M. issued a two-track single, limited to 6,000 copies, to members of their fan-club, which included covers, collaborations and festive specials.
And now, speaking to BBC News, Buck has revealed those songs could be brought together to form an extensive charity release. “There were like 24 of them, which makes about 50 songs,” Buck remarked.
“We’ll put them in a big boxset for charity one day. I just liked the idea. I was never in the Beatles fan club but I really liked the fact you would get a weird thing in the mail every year. So every year, REM put out a record. It was all material that had never been released anywhere else.”
R.E.M announced their decision to disband in the September of 2011 following the release of their fifteenth studio record ‘Collapse Into Now‘.