Time's Up

This year's record pick ups have been almost as weird as the year itself. The year started pretty strong with some great stuff, then during lockdown I shifted my attention to cheap finds within the UK. And fingers crossed I am hoping to pick up some new releases in the next couple of weeks before the end of the year arrives. But during the lockdown phase I picked up a bunch of cheap 7"s, one of which was a gold vinyl Worn Thin 7". I then realised that I was one copy of that 7" short of a full collection. So I decided to pick up the one I was missing, which is the black vinyl copy, which arrived recently.

Apparently this is the most limited version of this 7" there is, which kinda helped justify buying it in the first place. You know by now that I'm not the biggest fan of black vinyl, but the only exception is if it's the rarest version.

So of course, once I picked up the final copy that I was missing, I had to find the other copies that were dotted around my room to take a group shot of the finished collection.

Shown here are:

[Top row] Test press / 15 & 2 different record release show versions / 54

[Bottom row] Black vinyl / 142, gold vinyl / ?, and solid orange vinyl / 840

Funnily enugh, earlier this year I added a test press of the second Worn Thin 7" to the collection and snapped an almost complete collection photo of that 7" too. So now I'm feeling even more bummed that I missed that test press of the LP that Youngblood sold earlier in the year. Still, gotta have something left to aim for I guess.