All Things Vinyl

[Jack the Stripper]

Slayer as requested by Thel

Don’t have an extensive Slayer collection in terms of multiple copies of of the one album, singles etc and I am missing both Divine Intervention and the covers album Undisputed Attitude on vinyl but what I do have are all OG pressings.

[Charger]

^^^ You haven’t heard the story behind the Rocka Rolla cover?  Depending on what or who you believe the band apparently weren't happy with the original cover as they didn’t think it fitted their image as a heavy metal by the time the 80’s rolled around, but the other theory was that they were threatened by a lawsuit from the Coca Cola company if they didn’t change it.

I do remember hearing about the band not liking the cover (nor the album itself) but I never heard that it got "replaced" though.

Another reason to love this place...you quite often learn something new about things you thought you already knew...

[Thelemech]

Thanks Jack!! That South Of Heaven one looks fabulous.

[Jack the Stripper]

The mother of all boxsets has arrived.

Cue O Fortuna











All Studio albums come with a seperate fold-out poster with archival photos














Double Gatefold Vinyl







Double Gatefold Vinyl



Triple Gatefold Vinyl


Double Gatefold Vinyl






Double Vinyl

Double Gatefold


Double Gatefold



This is an absolutely beautiful boxset. Great attention to detail has been taken with it. The splatter vinyls look stunning and are heavyweight quality and the artwork on the album covers is vivid with vibrant colours just like the originals, not a cheap photo scan you can can get with a lot of reissues. The actual boxset all these gems are housed in looks amazing too. All numbered & signed by Ozzy.

This is easily the best boxset I have in my collection and I’m very happy to own one.

[Vyn]

Holy smokes, that is a great looking set!

[Charger]

That is pretty cool looking boxset indeed.

But weren't these the exact ones where they got caught on just copying Ozzy signature?

[Jack the Stripper]

That is pretty cool looking boxset indeed.

But weren't these the exact ones where they got caught on just copying Ozzy signature?

No it was the $20 Ordinary Man cds. These and the Ordinary Man vinyls have been proven to be legit Ozzy sigs.

[Charger]

That is pretty cool looking boxset indeed.

But weren't these the exact ones where they got caught on just copying Ozzy signature?

No it was the $20 Ordinary Man cds. These and the Ordinary Man vinyls have been proven to be legit Ozzy sigs.

Oh yes...sorry.

[Typhon]

Impressive boxset, and with the authenticated signature the price now seems reasonable.

[Jack the Stripper]

Impressive boxset, and with the authenticated signature the price now seems reasonable.

Reasonable for those that live in the U.S. It cost me $674USD with taxes and shipping which when converted to Aussie dollars worked out to $1010. That’s about $63 each vinyl. A hell of a lot of money. Works out about $34 a vinyl for those that live in the U.S. That’s pretty reasonable with the boxset, posters and signature thrown in.

[Charger]

^^^
Yikes! I could never afford that!

[Charger]

Anyways...here's pics of something I did afford to buy...

Talking about those Picture discs here are mine:

Iron Maiden's Out Of The Silent Planet double pack 12" and a 7" red vinyl singles Both numbered:




DIO's Master Of The Moon original picture disc:



Then something maybe bit more rare...I don't know...
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley Live 12" Picture Disc:



Black Sabbath - Turn Up The Night Original 7" picture disc single:



(These cost around 30€ and upwards nowadays...I think I paid 15€ for it...)


And then an easy trivia question for Jack...
What band?

[Jack the Stripper]

^^^
Yikes! I could never afford that!

I couldn’t either but I just had to have it. People are selling these for $1500 on Discogs and eBay and a lot are also breaking them up and selling the vinyls separately and getting very good money for them, especially albums like Live & Loud, Ozzmosis and Down To Earth which previously were fetching $400-500 for original pressings and others like Black Rain and Budokan which had never been released on vinyl. Once these are sold out and only available on the secondary markets the price will skyrocket and $1000 will seem like a bargain and I would’ve been kicking myself if I hadn’t decided to pull the trigger now.

[Jack the Stripper]

Anyways...here's pics of something I did afford to buy...

Talking about those Picture discs here are mine:

Iron Maiden's Out Of The Silent Planet double pack 12" and a 7" red vinyl singles Both numbered:




DIO's Master Of The Moon original picture disc:



Then something maybe bit more rare...I don't know...
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley Live 12" Picture Disc:



Black Sabbath - Turn Up The Night Original 7" picture disc single:



(These cost around 30€ and upwards nowadays...I think I paid 15€ for it...)


And then an easy trivia question for Jack...
What band?

Very nice Charger. I have the Turn Up The Night 12”. Don’t have the Megadeth Anarchy one though.

[Charger]

The Anarchy came to me kinda by accident...just saw it on a second had recordstore for pennies and thought it looked cool.