Don’t (Wait Up)

For quite a while, I told myself that I wasn’t going to get sucked into buying even more represses of records I already have a lot of copies of. But after seeing Bane a bunch of times and seeing the repress copies of our gracious host Daniel, I said “Fuck it. It’s Bane.” Luckily, this happened around Labor Day in the US and Equal Vision offered a discount over that weekend. Since the records weren’t that expensive to begin with, I actually got Bane records in 2024 for less than $20. Well, at least before shipping, but still. 

Musically, there’s not much to say. The last Bane LP is now considered a classic in itself, which makes me feel old as hell. This repress came out last year and was a Revelation Records exclusive color. Kinda weird this comes on baby blue instead of yellow, because the latter has been the go-to color for Rev exclusives these last few years. I’m not really complaining though because baby blue works much better than yellow. 

2023 Repress (= 3rd Press) on Baby Blue on Revelation Records /???

The most current represses are not that pretty, but a collector’s gotta do what a collector’s gotta do. 

2023 Repress (= 4th Press) on Custard w/ Blue on Equal Vision (/500)

This version looks much better than the other one, because at least the colors go with the artwork, at least to some degree. But it’s still not a good looking version. 

2024 Repress (= 4th Press) on Purple and Black/White Splatter on Equal Vision /500