At the back end of last year Revelation pressed up another colour version of the Youth Of Today 'Can't Close My Eyes' 12". On average this one now seems to get pressed on a new colour every couple of years, and there probably isn't too much excitement about these things in the record collecing community. Except this time there was a bit of a buzz about it, because 100 copies of it were a little more special than the average repress.
In total there were 1,000 copies of this colour pressed. But 100 of them have a blank white label with a batman stamp and a batman stamp in the bottom corner of the front cover, as a tribute to the orange vinyl 7" pressing (although that one had a couple of extra stamps on it). I was lucky enough to get one of these in the few minutes that they were available, but of course I also had to pick up a regular one too because, you know, they are different.
The batman version also came with a numbered print. I scored number 3/100. It's kinda cool I guess, although I would have preferred if it were the reord that were numbered rather than the insert. ALthough if it were then it would be different to the 7" version. So I guess this is fair enough.
The batman stamped version sold out in a matter of minutes, so it's cool to see that Rev are still able to crank out stuff that there is a bit of excitement for... whereas the regular, unstamped one is still very much available and I would guess is likely to be so for quite some time.
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that record is so much fun, they did great job with it. one small thing, i wish they had stamped the paper sleeve too just like the 7".
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