Sick Of It

I am patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait. In this case I waited for about 17 years (goddamn...) to get this limited sleeve of Sick Of It All's 7" Death To Tyrants. SOIA released an album under the same name in 2006 and the 7" has two songs from said LP, plus an otherwise unreleased song (I think). This was the last SOIA LP that I actually liked (and at one point collected). The songs on this 7" are good, but it's not the best SOIA material in my opinion. I got this record purely for collecting purposes to be honest because I love the first SOIA 7" and I'm into rip-off covers, even though it's kind of weird that a band does a rip-off sleeve of one of their own records. 

The records with the Gilman Street rip-off cover are numbered out of 50. My copy is #30 as can be seen below. 

There are three versions of this record, clear and white with the regular sleeve and some of the white vinyl copies come with the limited sleeve. Here's a nice family picture. I don't know if test presses for this release exist. 

Shopping For A Record

I like to think that I have a pretty good Good Clean Fun collection and I always thought I was well informed about the pressing info of each release. As it turns out there's one variant that I'd never seen or even heard of. Shopping For A Crew was originally released on 7" format by Underestimated Records. Then it was rereleased by Dutch label Reflections Records, also as a 7". A few years later Dead Serious from Germany released a compilation of the Shopping For A Crew and Who Shares Wins 7"s, which was also called Shopping For A Crew. The compilation comes on black, black-brown splatter and purple vinyl. And I thought that was it. I once mailed the label about detailed pressing info and the possibility of acquiring a test press, which surely must exist, but I never heard back from them. A few years back I stumbled across another variant of this compilation, which I'd never seen or heard of either. It comes with a special Crucial Youth rip-off sleeve and was pressed on red vinyl. Since there are only ten copies of that variant, I somehow thought it was a test press pressed on coloured vinyl for some reason. It never entered my mind that this could be part of a whole different colour pressing and just comes with a limited sleeve. A few weeks back I saw a picture of a red vinyl copy on Instagram, so I went over to Discogs and checked the Good Clean Fun releases, which is something I never do as I happen to have most of them. As it happened to be there was a copy readily available.