You had to know the Flaming Lips couldn't put out their mega-collaborative Record Store Day release without doing something gross and outlandish with the packaging. MTV Hive writes that some editions of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends-- which features contributions Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, Nick Cave, Ke$ha, Neon Indian, and many more-- will include the actual blood of some of the collaborators.

“What I'm going to try to do-- and I'm collecting stuff for it as we speak-- is I'm going to try to make a record that has every person's blood in the record,” Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told MTV Hive. “I don't have everybody's blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it's actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak... I'm going to try to take that same concept and put little bits of everybody's blood in the middle of this record. Like a glass specimen thing.”

Evidence of possible blood donors is being logged by Flaming Lips fan site Psych Explorations of the Future Heart. So far, the list seems to include Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and maybe Ke$ha.

Coyne told MTV Hive that five or six blood-infused picture discs will be made to be purchased by "interested rich Flaming Lips people," which means this thing's going to be very pricy. The rest of the albums will be released on multicolored vinyl, each disc with a unique design.

Preview snippets of the various collaborations from the release here.