Thrice released Anthology on 30 October 2012: a double live album drawn from the farewell tour, 24 songs, issued digitally, on two CDs, and as a box of four 180 gram LPs capped at 3,000 numbered copies. It came out on Staple Records with Workhorse Music Group, and the label’s own archived posts carry the release detail this page works from.
Staple News is independent, with no connection to the Staple Records label that used this domain and none to Thrice; how the site came to sit here is set out in About Staple News. Everything below comes from the label’s dated posts and from Discogs entries, which are community maintained transcriptions of what a release prints rather than label documents.
What the label published, and how fast the vinyl went
The pre-order announcement is dated 11 September 2012 and specifies the physical package: 24 songs, three formats, and a box “limited to just 3000 stamped and numbered pieces” with a 24 page photo booklet.
It also published a full price list, three bundle tiers deep, with the deluxe tier adding a hand numbered poster. The tiers distinguish the music-only purchase from packages with additional items.
The next dated post, 12 September 2012, says the LP pre-orders were gone from the band’s own webstore and that a second pre-order would open at Amazon. Neither post records what time the pre-order opened or closed, so no elapsed figure is claimed here. What the two dates establish is that the vinyl tier was announced and then reported sold out on consecutive days.
What was actually in the box
The inspected entry for the box goes further than the press release. Each 180 gram LP sits in its own sleeve inside a silk screened, canvas wrapped box, with a full size booklet of live photographs from the run and a download card for a 320 kbps copy.
The entry also records which sides carry which colour: A and B black, C and D white, E and F black, G and H white. Read that carefully before using it to identify anything. Two of the four discs are black and two are white, so colour on its own does not tell you which disc you are holding. It narrows a loose disc to one of two, and the side lettering is what separates them after that.
Two catalog numbers for one release
The formats do not share a number. The two CD issue is entered as WH03 under both Staple Records and Workhorse Music Group. The box is WH04, entered with Workhorse holding the number and Staple listed beside it without one.
The CD entry also records where the rights sat: phonographic and composition copyright split between the two imprints, with publishing credited to Scepter Of Malice and Kings Upon The Main. The same imprint pairing shows up across this label’s catalogue, including on the Vagrant era records covered in our guide to Senses Fail albums in order.
Who recorded it, and where it was finished
Both entries credit Mike Shumaker with recording and engineering, and Eric Stenman with the mix and the master, both done at Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles. The studio also appears on the label’s own artist page as the recording location for the preceding studio album, which it says was tracked and produced there by Dave Schiffman.
Riley Breckenridge set the standard for the recording in the press release, describing a live record with no overdubs, no edits and no pitch corrections. The label framed the release against the band’s stated hiatus, announced the previous autumn after thirteen years and eight full length records.
Checking a secondhand set
Check the catalog number and format first. WH03 identifies the two CD entry; WH04 identifies the vinyl box entry. Then compare the offered contents with the package description. Four discs, their individual sleeves and the booklet are separate items to check. A photo of a closed box cannot establish that those pieces are inside.
The original bundle tiers also explain why two listings can include different extras. A poster or T-shirt belongs to a particular package, and its absence does not by itself identify a different pressing. The historical prices above describe the original offer; they do not establish a current resale value.
The question listeners still ask
In the community sample read for this article, a thread on r/thrice weighed this album against the band’s earlier live release and then asked whether another one is due. The poster named four songs they keep returning to, all four of them on the 24 track sequence the label printed in 2012. Nothing in this ledger answers the forward question, so this page does not try.
Corrections and gaps
Built from four archived label posts and two release entries read on 6 September 2026. No chart position and no sales figure appears, because none was checked against a chart source. No copy of any pressing was inspected, so every colour, count and credit here is what an entry records rather than what a sleeve prints. The 3,000 figure is a stated cap, not a production count. Our editorial standards cover how to send a correction.