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Lately Victory has been really trying to step up their vinyl game.  Clearly putting more effort into it by releasing the Straylight Run lp, a ton of RSD releases relevant to my hc interests and random smokey grey vinyl variants out of 100.  This Snapcase LP is no exception.

 

This lp is limited to 80 and this one is number 12! I have no idea what pressing this is of the actual vinyl, could be a repress or it could be og press with new covers.

 

The best thing about this lp is the screen printed cover, Victory clearly put a lot of effort into this one.  The cover is heavy cardstock and the ink is so thick it almost still feel wet. Multi screens had to be made for this cover so a lot of work went into screening all 80. It's really awesome that Victory put so much effort into an LP that I'm sure was never one of their big sellers.  But it's fucking Snapcase, well worth it.

JUNE

Ah, Poison the Well, the band that pretty much started the use of the double bass pedal in hardcore. The band that actually did it right and made it sound fucking awesome, too bad that forever after this record came out bands would overuse the fuck out of double bass. PTW is another band that I originally didnt care much for when I first heard them.  My friend justin hand send me The Opposite of December thru aim file transfer, I listened to it once and then left it for years. About a year or so ago I revisited the record and fell in love with it. Of course this meant I had to have it on vinyl.

 

After some reasearch i found out that it had been pressed onto blue vinyl, which goes along perfectly with the cover (which is one of my favorite covers of all time).  I saw that Goodlife had pressed it onto blue vinyl on the 1st and 2nd press, and there was really no way to tell which was which.  They also went for way more than I was willing to spend.  Eventually, someone on Vinyl Collective that REV still had copies of this.  I made my way over there and grabbed a copy, and I am content with having it on regular black vinyl.

 

 

Some label is repressing this and I think Tear from the red this summer.  Hopefully that will drive the price of the Blue vinyl down so I can pick one up.  I'll probably end up picking up the repress if I'm in a spending mood when pre-orders go up.

Indecision / Indifference TEST!!

So I never used to care about getting test presses.  The way I looked at it, it was almost pointless.  It was expensive and extremely difficult to accomplish.  Nowadays i feel differently and it's an odd sense of accomplishment owning a record that i never thought i would own. This is a prime example of that accomplisment. The Indecision / Indifference TEST PRESS limited to 5 copies.

This popped up on ebay sometime last week.  I caught it at 3 days, and I have an alert for any Indecision record that comes up on ebay (thanks to Nick for teaching me how to do this) and I caught this before the alert did.  Which leads me to believe it was a short auction, which is odd for a test press since you would want maximum exposure to get as much money as possible.  Fine by me though because I think i got off easy on the price with this one.

The seller was awesome enough to include a regular pressing of the 7" also, which now replaces the one I already had that was not in the best of condition.  This is now the second Indecision record that I have that is limited to 5, the other being the split with Shutdown with the cut/paste copied cover. 

Indecision is actually playing tonight in the Village in NYC. Dont know who the first band is, but it's essentially a 90's show.  I cant wait to see Indecision, see you in the pit.

Reppin'

So a month or so i was lucky enough to snag a Pink copy of the Sainthood Reps lp "Monoculture" from hot topic.  The white had already long sold out and i had it in the back of my head to search for it. Well, luckily it didn't take long as a white copy out of 108 popped up on ebay, with a buy it now for like 12 bucks!  So here it is, lucky me.

 This record was actually recorded in the basement of Mike Sapone, who lives in my town.  I'm proud to know this was recorded near me as it is one of the best Long Island releases to come out in the last 10 years.

Feels like im not of this eart, Feels like i don't belong.

Now here is a fucking record!  Fire and Ice's "Not of This Earth", on upstate NY's Reaper Records. This is easily my favorite record of 2012 so far, and I really doubt any other records are going to top it.  I love the whole imagery of the "not of this earth" idea for the cover being outer space.  The black vinyl is out of 300 and I believe the most limited, kind of interesting that some labels are making the classic black the most limited version now. Also, the record has a full color insert/dust sleeve. I absolutely love when this is done its so multifunctional and looks great.  Anyway, I strongly recommend everyone and their mother to pick up this record.

Crime in stereo influencers

So here's another band I know next to nothing about, As Friends Rust.  The only thing I really do know about them is that they were a big influence on Crime in Stereo. I had actually never even heard of them til CIS did a cover at one of their last shows.  Since then I've started listening to them and have enjoyed everything I've heard.  Another mission has began to get one of everything they've put out on vinyl.

This is called "The Fists of Time An Anthology of Short Fiction and Non-Fiction by As Friends Rust".  It compiles a song from their split with discount, the fists of time ep and an extra circle jerks cover.  The LP didn't come with a full size insert, it came only with the cd booklet.  I really hate when labels do this,  you have a huge canvas to make an awesome insert but instead they get lazy and just throw in extra cd booklets.  The only lame part of an otherwise awesome record.

Bringing the hammer down at posi #'s

So this is pretty much the true definition of an ebay steal.  Im browsing ebay last thursday and i see the Think i Care "Mongrel" 10' from posi numbers. I put it in my watch list and determine ill bid on it if it stays low.  After i finish my morning browse i go back to my watch list and realize that the record wasnt just a starting bid at 10 bucks, it was a buy it fucking now! I bought that shit and paid immediately.  When i checked it out on popsike, it normally goes for $30+!

Anyway, this is limited to 170 and was sold when Think I Care played Posi Numbers.  Also is a sweet Sheer Terror ripoff cover.  I have no clue what year as A) i never got to see Think I Care, and B) I also never went to Posi Numbers.  Think I Care is another band I didn't like when I first heard them.  I picked up the World Aslyum LP before this, hated it and didn't give them another listen til about a year ago when I downloaded Mongrel.  Once again I kick myself for writing off a band before I've really given them a good chance.