There is now a special anniversary album, 50 Years and Counting, available exclusively at Barnes and Noble. Looking at the wiki page, I actually can’t tell if it’s released as an LP as well as a CD.
but the track listing is disappointing (as have most of the Sesame Street Records releases). and not just because there aren’t any new to audio tracks. At first I thought it looked like primarily Platinum and Platinum Too tracks, but there are quite a few covers of kiddie songs not written for the show (many of which I think come from the album Kids Favorite Songs).
Some of the most expected songs are not on there, but even if it’s a case of them wanting to limit the amount of songs included on practically every anniversary release, it’s an odd assortment.
there are two discs, one with a lot of songs, while disc 2 is just two songs, the current Sesame Street theme and Cookie Shark, both of which were released as digital singles a few months back (and were the first new-to-album tracks released in a long time) before being included on the last new release.
With the album sharing it’s title with the recent DVD release, I would think maybe it would have been better to primarily include all the songs on the DVD. It also would have been cool if it’d been a soundtrack to 50th Anniversary Celebration (or at least include many of those recordings). But for an anniversary album, it looks like a disappointing release.
EDIT TO ADD: Looking at the wiki page, I see that it is vinyl, though judging by how it’s written, it seems they are listed as “disc 1” and “disc 2”, as opposed to “side” or “record” 1 and 2. Can “disc” be a proper term for a vinyl release?