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the end of the world was rescheduled.[/quote:2tc6txs2]
I don’t know why, but this suddenly made me rofl! Well, I do know I guess, it’s like a new software release being postponed after some imperfections were found by the designers… yeah right!
[/quote:2tc6txs2]the boy’s father and uncle appeared on tv yesterday, praising the leader of syria for his reforms. days after receiving their dead 13 year old carcass of a son/nephew. yeah.
where were you
before you were one
when did you die
to fuse with the sunlost in time and space
going up to come back down
to never feel out of place
i don’t need me aroundhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Smashing-Pumpkins-G … 27bb01a68f
another shitty fake. these sellers are retarded.
good read. i’m not so much into gear and things like that, but some other parts of the thread were cool.
in my email correspondence with john, he estimated 1500 on black. also the 200-300 noted in the article. apparently, the 2500 pink comes from sub pop themselves.
honestly, i’d just put \"unknown\". since we really have no idea, we should just say so.
man, that pennyroyal tea single certainly carries a lot of baggage with it. but yeah, very cool site. it’s awesome seeing all those rare as fuck test pressings (for instance).
If the grey vinyl was intentional, then great. It would make sense.
The only thing that I disagree with about the article, or what is neglected……the Nirvana Silver/Dive single was repressed as were several other Sub Pop items by Erika Records because Sub Pop was in major financial problems (close to going out of business bad). That is where all of the different variations of Bleach came into play, after the original White Vinyl version. But the key on any of those is that on the label it does say "pressed by Erika".
Luckily, we know that the Grey Tristessa doesn’t fall into this category, but Petite Discographies should know this, whether they want to admit it or not. That is why Sub Pop isn’t keen to admit it, because who wants to say in a discography "to keep ourselves in business, we had to re-press 8000 copies of Bleach on 15 different color variants"
Regardless if the grey was intended or not, the Tristessa Grey is still just as rare as it was originally. Too bad we can’t find the original pressing invoice for the 7", that’d probably clear this up immediately.[/quote:1na3irx7]
I guess I see your point, but even you acknowledge this is really not relevant with respect to the Tristessa release. The only reason the other singles were brought up is to provide evidence about Sub Pop being misleading, not getting into why, necessarily.
well, he never actually states that it was signed by billy corgan, just that it is signed. haha, but yeah, it’s embarrassingly fake.
well, it sounds like when the band gomez was signed to hut records (1997), virgin/hut sent them a little gift basket to say, \"hey thanks for signing with us, get to know your contemporaries!\". aka, other bands on the hut label. since gomez is english, they were sent a UK copy of gish, from ’94 apparently, that featured a promotional sticker on it. makes sense for virgin to label the cd as such, as it would be a truly promotional item.
haha, yeah sometimes if i listen to stitch, i feel guilty for liking it ’cause i know you hate it so.
And I’m trying to hunt down the 1992 German Virgin Summer Slam promo cd, since it contains I Am One and the tour dates for the second German tour. Quite the curiosity![/quote:2om60reg]
It’s funny you should mention that, because I just recently bought that exact CD. Not sure if it’s at my house yet, I’ll check when I get home.[/quote:2om60reg]
I might have an idea which one you bought… I was having an eye on that one for a long time, but I thought it was too expensive. So I waited till the auction was over and ask the German seller… But he said he just sold it… Most probably to you, I guess! Congratulations! But I just scored something else from eBay. A Gish album UK promo cd for 7 dollar, not mentioned on SPfreaks yet!
[/quote:2om60reg]yeah, thanks. i made an offer for less than the listing price, and he accepted.
i messaged the seller about that gish CD as well. turns out, it’s only denoted by a sticker, so i passed up bidding on it. however, here’s what the seller said:
Dear samderek,
It has a ‘Promo Copy’ sticker on the back of it, which doesn’t sound like much, but if it helps to validate it it was lifted straight from a ‘Hospitality Pack’ issued to the band Gomez when they signed to Hut Records.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Matt.
– thelonelylimpingpigeonSo, it’s got a little provenance to it, which is cool.
