Gang Of Four to offer special album package containing their blood

Post-punk legends Gang Of Four will record a new album and sell it with their blood!

Some years ago, probably spurred by being name-dropped in every new band's interviews, UK post-punk pioneers Gang Of Four reformed.

Now they're going to record a new album (they re-recorded some of their classics in 2005) and they're offering bizarre, and possibly tongue-in-cheek, special editions.

They've mooted a January 25, 2011 release date for their forthcoming album of new material Content, and they've detailed a pretty grisly special edition.

"The Ultimayte Content Can" will reportedly feature a CD and lyrics, an art book of Jon King and Andy Gill's mosaic of the last four decades of world history, and "a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band's emotions".

That seems special enough, until they add "phials of band members' blood" and a "scratch-and-sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity".

We don't know how legal it is to ship phials of rock star blood. Or, indeed, what "key areas of human activity" would smell like (think: sex, birth, death, excretion). But we'll let you know.