A couple of years ago I decided to slow down on the Integrity collecting as it felt like it was just incessant and increasingly expensive. I have definitely slowed on the newer releases / represses, but that doesn't mean that I am completely out of the game. Even though I own a crazy number of Integrity test pressings, I always wanted some of the Victory Records tests. And finally I have one.
I won this test press of the split 7" with Psywarfare on eBay. This came out on Victory in 1996 as a picture disc, and contains two songs by Integrity - 'Sarin' (which was included on the 'Seasons In The Size Of Days' LP a year later) and 'Learn How To Die' which was not (and isn't really a song, more of a noise track).
There are also two Psywarfare 'songs' on here. I'm not sure I have ever listened to the Psywarfare side. I'm sure I must have played it once back when this came out. It's not my thing. It's not even music. It's literally just noise.
In getting the picture disc out for these pics I had forgotten that this came with a sticker on the pvc sleeve which is slightly amusing:
A fun fact about this record is that when I visited Erika Records back in 2022, they had a copy of this picture disc pinned to the office wall. I was surprised to see a copy of this given that this pressing plant cranks out millions of records per year, and does a lot for major labels, including Elvis and One Direction records. So it was kinda cool to see an Integrity record on the wall.
I had always thought that the test press for this was relatively common. I was convinced that I had seen a few over the years. But upon receiving this I went to discogs and there is apparently 1 person who owns a copy. Me. And according to the Victory discography that I referred to in my last post, there are only 5 copies of this test press. So it's much rarer than I thought.
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