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Here we have the Iron Age LP The Sleeping Eye. This was pressed by Full Tilt Records, I think out of the U.K. This black wax is out of 400.

Here we have the Constant Struggle LP from the 09 Youngblood Showcase. This one is numbered out of 150. I got both of these with my Sacred Love pre-order.

So I got my Mindset Live LP. I was happy to see I got all three copies Gold out of 100 and White and Black out of 200 each. This came out really well. Everything looks great. I liked this even more because I was there, and even better I'm on the back cover.

That's me in the middle with the white hat on, the fist in the air and a windbreaker on. It was such a great set, maybe the best from Mindset, though there are a lot of good ones.

This is my pre-order for the latest Carrier LP from Deathwish. Deathwish did a good job with the One Year Later LP, but when I saw this I was floored, the art, the layout and the vinyl colors are all great. I thought it was pretty ironic I got this around Valentine's Day and the colors are pretty close to that Hallmark holiday. The thing is is that the music is not as good as the last LP or any other prior material. It's not bad and it's defiantly not anything to be upset about, it's just not as good.

Here is another pre-order, the Mother of Mercy latest LP. The most rare is the Seafoam Green, the one in the middle was supposed to be a Blue, Gray and Black mix I think, but it came out really similar to the White and Black Mix. So They stamped the sleeves of the Blue/Gray/Black so that you can tell the difference. This record rips just like the last one, it's hard to pick which one is better, III probably would overall win.

So when I pre ordered the Mindset LP I also picked up another copy of the Youth Crew 09 comp from Upside Down. This is the most common on black out of 300.

I picked these up from a React board poster. This is from the second press on Blue out of 1,270.

I also picked this one up with The First Step record. This is the Inside Out and Youth of Today split. It's a bootleg and has mostly Inside Out live songs, but also has one Youth of Today studio outtakes.

This one I also picked up from Upside Down, it's the demos from what became What We Know. This actually was put out by Bottle Up, white is out of 250. Clean looking record.

Here is the latest Outlast record. This overall is pretty good. The recording and music is great. The layout and design is not my favorite, but it's not that bad.

Snowed In

So since I can't really do anything this weekend with the snow, I decided to finally do this post, it's over-due and has a lot, so it should be worth your time. In other news I did get to go to the Trapped Under Ice Video Shoot last night in Baltimore before it got really bad. It took 3 hours to get home however, bummer.

The first record was giving to me as a Christmas gift from a friend. I'm pretty stoked about records as gifts.

This is the Explosions in the Sky Double LP, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. I've been meaning to pick up some Explosions vinyl but never got around to it, probably because it was just easy enough to get that I didn't think I ever had to get it at the time. Luckily someone took care of this for me. This is actually a pretty cool release, the dust sleeves both have artwork on them and actually makes the whole layout of the record pretty cool. I thought that just with the cover alone, it was pretty boring, but with the dust sleeves it works.

The second LP is one sided, with the B side etched. Another nice touch that really works with the whole layout of the album. I'm looking forward to seeing this band again someday.

Ok next I got a large package from Six Feet Under Records, in it were the Title Fight and True Colors pre-orders. First is Title Fight.

This was pressed with three colors and a limited deluxe version. The deluxe version is on transparent red with black swirl and has a special cover with an actual Polaroid, limited to 88 copies, nice touch. The grey marble vinyl is also limited to 97. Overall I was a little disappointed with the colors for this one. I think the original press just had better colors.

So the main reason I ordered was for the latest True Colors LP, finally released in the U.S. Like Title Fight, this had 3 colors and a special limited jacket package with Rush of Hope and Focus on the Light. I think the insert is awesome, what's better than a picture in D.C.?



So the copy of Focus on the Light that came with the special cover was on white and had very plain labels, I guess to just make is more limited and simple that way.

The last thing I got was my Outlast pre-order.

This was done really well. The white is the pre-order color, limited to 100. I think the colors were done very well. I do wish that the blue vinyl was more like a Carolina Blue like it is on the cover, oh well. Good job overall.