This Will be Updated More

I've been slacking a lot recently and I just got around to trying to catch up. I'm trying to be more up-to-date with this blog. Currently I'm posting records I got sometimes two months ago. Expect some more updates soon.

So Time Flies was a band from Virginia in the late 90s. They shared members with Count me Out and Cloak/Dagger. This is the only LP they put out, on Indecision Records. I picked this up a few months back at Celebrated Summer in Towson, MD. The black is out of 1,105. I actually had never listened to this release before buying it. I had heard Can't Change the Past and was digging it so I thought this would be a good purchase. I was right, I'm listening to this for the first time and it rules, hard.

So way back when Bridge 9 put up there Black Friday sale, I decided to pick up some more New Found Glory records. I ordered these two copies of the latest LP and the second press of the Tip of the Iceberg 7". They sent me a copy of the first press on the White with splatter. I sent them an email and explained what happened. Matt in Mail Order offered to send me a picture disc to make up for it. I didn't understand this as I wanted the 2nd press, which I said in the e-mail and ordered originally. Not to mention picture discs are dumb. So after more than necessary communication, he said he would send me a copy on black. So here we are. I offered to send mine back for free, but he didn't want to do that. I'm guessing they're looking to get rid of these, as I know the NFG releases haven't sold as well as they planned.

Puffer of Alert put out his zine, which had been over-due for a while from what I remember. It's a pretty simple zine with interviews with three great bands, Stick Together (current hype), Face Reality (soon to be hyped) and Thought Crusade (are they still together?). Not sure if he still has copies, but this is worth picking up.

With my Black Friday Deathwish order, I picked up two copies of the latest Alpha & Omega LP, which rips. This thing looks amazing too to top it off. I didn't hear much about this band for a while and then all of sudden they put out this LP and it was worth the lack of attention. This honestly was one of the best releases of 2010. The bottom is on Green with Black swirl, a very dark green pretty much. The top copy is supposed to be on black, but it isn't.

This is the copy of Green/Black. It looks much more green when held up to light.

Here is the "Black" copy. It is green with a lot more black in it. Now this isn't as noticeable unless it's held up to the light, but if you just glance at it, you'd probably think it was black. To me this means I have two copies on Green with Black. Can anyone else elaborate more on this? Are all of the "Black" copies like this?

I picked up this React! rarity off of eBay. This is the special press of The First Step's Connection 7" originally pressed by Rivalry Records. For those that don't know, Aram pressed 88 of these and handed them out at the React! Showcase last year. This was not available anywhere else. I was lucky enough to be able to add this to the React! collection, which is getting pretty big at this point. I was a little bummed, this showed up in the mail with the top of the cover damaged and some creasing, which sucks even more because this is screen printed and any damage is more noticeable. It is what it is. This is more reason why I wish people would be more careful when packing records, and when you see someone who can do it right, you appreciate it that much more. By the way, this thing looks awesome, so clean and mean looking.

I picked up my third copy of Right Idea's Our World in my Deathwish Black Friday order. It's nice to have all three copies, and I didn't have to pay anything ridiculous for them.

Also with the Deathwish Black Friday order extravaganza, I thought I was due to pick up my first Minor Threat record. "What took you so long?" I know, I know. Either way this is the s/t release with the two 7"s on it. I have no idea what number press this it is, but I know it's the most recent.

I picked this up while I was in Lancaster, at the record store of the label that put it out, CI Records. This is August Burns Red's Messengers. This is one of those bands that I listened to years ago, and I still give them a listen from time to time. This record still does it for me. It's something that's hard to get rid of.

This is another guilty pleasure from back in the day, but even better. This is the legendary Zao album, Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest. This was the first release after the band essentially restarted, with all but one new member. This was essentially the start of what is considered the real Zao. This honestly may be one of the best metalcore releases ever. Now keep in mind this is more metal, with a strong Death Metal influence, but it owns on every level. When I found out Broken Circles was putting this out on vinyl, I wanted to pick up a copy for a long time. I never got around to it until I saw it at CI Records. I'm very happy I did. This copy on red is out 400. I hope to be able to pick up more copies of this one.

I picked this up at Celebrated Summer. I had heard a lot about Justice, and I figured as much as I liked True Colors, I should give Justice a try. For those that don't know, Justice and True Colors shared members. So after purchasing I gave it a listen, it's not really my thing. It's not bad, just not my style. Oh well. It's something cool to have.

I'll finish this post with the updated Down to Nothing stupidity. Merch has started to get more serious, and I'm starting to run out of records that are probable I'll ever get my hands on. I just realized I didn't put the demo tape in this one, oh well. If you've got a test press, I want it.

I'll Always be Catching Up

So here we have my React! order, this is all three versions of the Give 7" and only two copies of the Betrayed 7", I ordered three but I got two copies of white. So I'll need to pick up a copy on black, as well as a copy of Time & Pressure on black I'm still missing for the same reason. All in all this came out pretty cool, just a bummer about the no black again.


So I bid on this on eBay and ended up loosing. This was put up by Patrick of Reaper I believe, a few days after it ended Patrick sent me a second chance offer, luck was on my side. So I quickly accepted the offer, and here it is. If you haven't figured it out this it the Test of All My Sons out of 20. There was also a rejected test press that I did not win, and went for less than this. So I'll try and email Patrick and see if I can pick that one up at some point.

Pretty cool Chung King rip for the cover, defiantly quality work by Reaper as usual. Big score.

So this was a plant error. I guess 6131 ordered the second press of Backtrack's 7" and the plant accidentally printed some of Swamp Thing's 7" with Backtrack's labels, using the Swamp Thing plates instead of Backtracks. It looks like that's what happened. This is out of only 40 and there's still more of them over in their store, so pick it up while you still can.

So I picked this one up from Willem over at Records With History and Future a while ago and I have to say, I can't be happier to have this one. Not only is it the first copy I have of the self-titled 7", but it's also maybe the rarest I think. This is the pre-order cover, numbered out of 100, and I got it for a great price I think.


So this one I picked up while in Litiz, PA doing training for my job. I went to CI Records as I was ansy to do something and I wanted to find a record store. Though the store is more on the metal side of hardcore, I was able to find this Far From Breaking 7". I wasn't totally sure about this one, I knew the band was youth crew style but I couldn't remember if I had ever heard the band. The fact that it was on Youngblood swayed me to get it. I was right, this is a great band, looking forward to picking up more of their wax.

This was another record I was bummed I didn't pre order. This Chain of Strength compilation came out really well. I picked these up at this show from Mindset.

This is the rarest version on clear and the most common on black, I still need to pick up the version on green one day.

I picked these both up from eBay and for relatively cheap, I'm not a big fan of Right Idea, just trying to get a more complete React set really. Pretty awesome how they look, as you would expect from the label. One thing I will say is that I would like to see Aram vary the pressing on releases, it seems like every release is getting pretty much the same run of color variations. Now that he's putting out even more records, it just becomes like too standard.

I was glad I got this, I picked it up from The Effort's big cartel store. This is the rarest copy of the second press from Seasick, only out of 60. Another pre order I slept on.

Setlled

Along with the True Colors record from the last post, I picked up another rarity from Six Feet Under. This is the last copy of Adult Crash I was missing.

This is the Blue/White swirl transition out of 14. When I first took this out I thought I was ripped, it looks just like the blue version. I took the copy of blue and white both out and compared them to the transition. After a second look this defiantly looks like its more white than the blue version. It's pretty hard to tell but there is a lighter version to it, the transition is in the middle.


I think I picked up these two off of eBay. The grey is from the first press and the yellow with brown is from the second press, that's about all I can tell you. I've got all of the copies of these now.

In a recent order with Six Feet I decided to pick up a regular version of Mother of Mercy's LP. This is cream from the second press out of 100. I just pre-ordered the new LP from Bridge 9, man that label is pissing me off lately. Stupid packages to get the rarest vinyl, and they charged me like $16 for shipping. Seriously? Hopefully the new LP is as good as this one.

In a continuation of trying to have everything DTN, including compilations, I picked up two copies of the Past Present compilation. Not to mention it's a Rev compilation, it's hard to pass on them as silly as they may seem. Some good songs on this, some weird ones. DTN has a great Judge cover, they seem to be able to do them consistently well. Yellow is out of 335 and black out of 749.

Also part of my Six Feet Under order, and also a compilation, I got the American Hardcore Comp. I had been on the fence about getting this for a while. When pre-orders first went up I wanted to get them, but I decided financially and just out of how much I wanted it, I wasn't going to order them. Come a few months later when people were receiving them and posting them on the internet, it made me want one. This is the red/blue swirl, though you can't tell, it's pretty cool looking. Like everyone else has said, this came out really cool with the cover and the large booklet. This just was handled very well.

The main reason I made an order with Six Feet was I was getting in to Miles Away a little bit and Dave posted he was putting out the latest LP in the U.S. I took a look and found some cool looking rare colors, so I picked up the rarest. This is the Milky Grey Swirl out of 67.

This is another copy of Secrets of the World on clear. Pretty boring, from the first press out of 1,000, just one I had to pick up of course.

This is the Swamp Thing LP on maroon, pretty boring too, out of 500.

So as part of Black Friday several labels had sales, this begins that whole mess. I picked up this Cold World/Strength for a Reason split from Deathwish, on grey out of 300. Pretty basic, not the best split, but I of course needed to get it.

Transitioning

So I lied in my last post, there were a few more arrivals before I moved. Here is a copy of Inside Out's No Spiritual Surrender. This is the final press, as indicated by the white bar on the top of the cover. I'm not sure how many copies there were of this however, if anyone knows please let me know.

I won three Frostbite 7"s from Tre of Deathwish on eBay a ways back. The top is on grey from the second press out of 225, made exclusively for Very Distro. The middle is on blue/white mix, almost baby blue. I don't know anything about this one, so if you've got some info please share. The bottom is a pre-release cover numbered out of 299. Dead by 23, from a collectors stand point was a very cool label, lots of different things going on to make things interesting, it feels like there was never a dull release.

So when I came home for Thanksgiving this is what had piled up in my room. If only everyday was like that one.

I won this on eBay from someone. I'm really in to this band now, so I'll have to track down all of the versions I can. This, the most common is out of 400.

I was happy to get my first copy of this, Keep It Clear's s/t. Again the black is the most common out by Not Just Words out of 480.

Here we have the last copy of the DTN/OTI split that I was missing. This as the cover says is the Euro Tour '06 cover. I believe the guy or one of the guys who ran Dead and Gone Records posted on the React board that he was getting rid of some of his personal collection along with some Dead and Gone rarities. I wanted to get a lot of different things, but this was the main thing. The guy seriously hooked me up with a great price. I have 14 copies of this record, 8 of which are black.

So Dave Sausage sent out an e-mail that he was looking to make some extra money for the label so he said for people to send him offers on rarities. I sent him an offer on this and another rarity I'll get to later.

This is the True Colors Consider It Done with the Sound and Fury cover. When I first heard about these on the internet I was mad that once again there was another True Colors record that was made limited again for the people like myself to have to get a copy of. What made me more upset about this one was that True Colors didn't even play Sound and Fury. I don't know if they ever have. How do you make a special version of a record for a fest that the band isn't playing? So that was a bit annoying. Either way I'm glad I have this one. This is by far the most limited, only 50 copies.

So I won these a while back on the Bay for what I thought was a pretty good deal. The clear is out of 150 and from the second press and the red is out of 200 and from the first. Both are the two rarest of the regular pressing (special sleeves, test presses and transitions aside). I hope these guys do an LP soon, they're due.

This is the European version of Not Sorry's Moving On on blue out of 96. Salad Days did a good job on this release. I think it's awesome when it's hard to distinguish which is the better version, the U.S. or the European. I'm still bummed I didn't do the big pre-order package they had for this.

I'm Moving

So I'm in the middle of a move right now, so I haven't had a whole lot of time to update this or really get pictures and records together. Presently I don't even have my records with me, they're still back home. As I'm typing this, I'm in a hotel because I'm off training for my new job and the wireless internet cuts in and out. This is an example of the reason for why I haven't updated this. Since I've been getting a lot of stuff recently I thought it would be a good idea to get a head start before it just get's out of hand.

Here we have the Summer Tour 2006 version of Bracewar's s/t 7". This is my seventh copy of this record. Other than the really rare ones, I'm only missing the red record release cover. Almost there. This summer tour version is numbered out of 100.


This is the '08 Euro Tour press of The First Step's Connection 7". This was the rarer color of the second press, with 270 copies. The first press also had a red so the labels on this one were changed to white to differentiate.

When Dave of Six Feet Under put out an distro update stating he got in copies of Bracewar's latest 7", I jumped at the opportunity, as I knew this may be the only time I'd be able to get both copies at once at a reasonable price. Clear is out of 300 and black is out of 700.

This is the Pulling Teeth and Frightener split. I believe this is the rarest color, white with splatter, 350 copies.

Here is a copy of Pulling Teeth's Vicious Skin on green with haze. This is from the first press, no idea the pressing info on this release.

When I made the order from SFU for the Bracewar 7"s I also decided to pick up another copy of Common Cause's The Power to Change on what I thought was going to be clear, that's what the listing in the webstore said. This arrived, apparently there is a second press out of 300 on blue. So I got a copy of the record, which is cool, it just means there's another one I still need to get.

So that covers everything I got right before I moved up to PA about 2.5 weeks ago. Hopefully I'll get time to post about the massive amount of stuff I had waiting for me when I went home for Thanksgiving.