​R.E.M. to reissue hit album

'"Out of Time' was the last record I wrote without a computer; I used a typewriter," said singer Michael Stipe in a recent New York interview. "I never trusted my handwriting. I could have a great handwriting day and fool myself into thinking something was a great lyric, or I could discard a great lyric because it was a bad handwriting day. I always used some kind of device to objectify my writing so I could then edit — a 'write drunk and edit sober' kind of vibe. [For this reissue] I had to listen to most of the demos, which for me was excruciatingly painful."