When I was picking up the Orange 9mm tests and Understand test press from Thirty Something Records, I also decided to pick up another record that I have had in my life for a long time but never owned on vinyl previously... the self titled album by The Fire Theft.
This band was around for a relatively short period, from 2001 to 2004. This was essentially 3 of the 4 original members of Sunny Day Real Estate who got back together with some other dude to crank out tunes that (surprise surprise) sounded similar to Sunny Day Real Estate. They cranked out one full length that came out in 2003 on CD only, and that was it. Thinking back to this era, when I had just bought a house and was spending all my time studying, I'm not exactly sure how I even knew that this band existed. But somehow I did, and I also managed to buy a promo copy of the CD in a cool card sleeve.
Unknown to me until semi recently, this album was first pressed on vinyl sixteen years after it was first released, in 2019. There were just under 1400 copies pressed, which these days isn't that many, especialy considering how big Sunny Day Real Estate are / were. Unsurprisingly, this pressing sells for a fair amount these days. So it was probably about time for this to be pressed again, and Thirty Something Records got the job, and pressed up another 1,000 copies, split across three different colours of vinyl.
By the time I got around to ordering this, the only option available was the most common colour, which is 'Red-transparent w/ black & white marble'. It looks pretty good though, I think, and it's kinda cool to be able to finally own these songs on vinyl after having them for twenty one years.
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