Judgment Night OST
Skid Row "B-Sides Ourselves"
Death "Individual Thought Patterns" remaster

Total came to $75, which isn't bad for three RSD releases.

Haven't picked them up yet; my store is holding them for me and I'll pick them up next week.

I am curious about the ITP remaster; read some reviews and most seem to indicate that it improves on a few things from the original, but a few things are also worse.

I found The Knack on Discogs for $16, which even with the added shipping cost has to be less than what it was going for in stores. Not sure why none of my local stores had it so I ordered it.

The English Beat
The Knack
Sia
U2
X

So your store had The Knack? None of mine did and I can't believe it would have sold out when there was still plenty of X, The English Beat, and Sparks still unsold (since they're all bands from around the same era and/or similar genres).

How much did it cost? I think my $16+shipping is far less than I would have paid in-store anyway.

Mine was way more than that. My guy charges top prices. He had lots of the Beat and ONE X! (and I did not check Sparks)

Yeah, I'm just hoping it's a legit seller, although about 3 other people had it around the same price, this guy was just a dollar lower on shipping.

Picked up the Carter Burwell "Blood Simple" expanded soundtrack. Not bad. Great liner notes.

I was able to get that Eric Carr CD I wanted through Discogs as well for just 10 bucks plus shipping sealed! Pretty happy I checked Discogs. The seller has great feedback, so I am not worried. Plus, the prices were pretty low all around for it. Guess it wasn't as desired as they thought since it was a reprint?

Yeah, wow, got my $16+shipping Knack record in the mail, and it still had the original price tag on it: $34. For once, I made out on getting an RSD disc from Discogs after the sale.

No more recent thread, so I'll post this here.
The Sledgehammer single is something else :

X - Formerly Twitter

That's pretty crazy. I wonder if all that affects the sound or do people not care about that aspect of it?

How much will that record cost?

We're talking about it in the general vinyl thread, Decks

^^ It says you need to view through your cell phone or use a strobe app to see the effect.

Kinda cool, but for that, I'm good with just seeing someone else's video.

It's just a picture disc, shouldn't affect the sound of the record at all. But that's how the first movies were viewed (not with a camera, but a spinning picture disc, viewed through a slot)

I'm curious as to how that is created. Is black vinyl pressed and the picture overlaid? I would worry about what the overlay does to the sound. Or is the picture vinyl created first and then pressed?

They're just picture discs with an added optical illusion.

Picture discs are made by sandwiching a printed paper image and clear or black PVC between polyethylene films imprinted with the record grooves (basically a flexi-fisc).

Since the playing surfaces are just flexi discs (like you used to find in magazines) with a graphic layer between them, the sound quality is usually poorer than that of a regular record and you won't get as many plays out of them.

I only buy picture discs if the art is interesting... some notable ones I have in my collection are Iron Maiden's "Wicker Man" 12" and Exodus' "Pleasures of the Flesh" with the original rejected cover art. And they aren't my primary copies of these albums.





I also have a couple of zoetrope LPs... Iron Maiden's "Power Slave" and Dio's "The Last in Line."


Kind of neat, but the animation effect can be difficult to see (sort of like those old Magic Eye posters); definitely for collectors only.

I might consider picking up the Sledgehammer one.

Thanks for the explanation. My primary interest is in the very best quality I can get from a record so I wouldn't be interested in the picture ones.

I've recently collected about 7 or 8 versions of Al Stewart's Year of the Cat (from the original 1978 Janus pressing to MFSL vinyl and CD versions) in order to analyze mix quality and pressing differences, ultimately trying to find the definitive one. It was mentioned in this forum that the title song was a great one to demonstrate the capabilities of one's system so I got interested and went down a pretty deep rabbit hole. I might put together my impressions and post them here.

And in the case of Sledgehammer, I'm not going to stand over my turntable to watch a video more than once anyway.

That was me.

Jeebus. 7 or 8 copies? I told you to just buy one, preferably from the dollar bin.

More like Decade of the Cat, amiright?