Sick Of It All 2000

It was in 2016 that I made it to 1,000 posts on here. Then in 2021 I hit post number 1,500. And then a couple of weeks ago I noticed that I was getting close to post number 2,000. I figured I needed something special to post to mark the occassion.

In the end I have decided to do exactly the same thing that I did when I hit post number 1,000 and just post the latest copies of the first Sick Of It All 7" that I received relatively recently. These are both the two latest pressings from last year.

First up is a clear purple vinyl pressing with a one off special cover. This is a benefit for Lou Koller who was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years back. Rev pressed an undisclosed number of 7"s with this limited cover as a fundraiser for Lou.

I'm not a big fan of the front cover art, but I absolutely love that they changed the bar across the bottom of the back to purple. It looks really cool I think.

At the same time that the purple copies got pressed, they also pressed up 550 copies on clear(ish) orange vinyl. OK, so the colour isn't particularly suited to the cover, but for some reason I think this colour looks great.

These two latest pressings mean that I now have 24 copies of this record. I figured that the only way that I could make this post in any way special to mark my 2000th post would be to lay out the whole lot for a photo. I generally don't like doing this as it takes a lot of time. But obviously I had to do it.

Ok, so some of these records look the same, but in theory each is different. Also, back when I made my 1000th post I had just acquired my 12th copy, and 2000 posts marks 24 copies. What this tells me is that, on average, one in every 83 posts is a copy of this record. Given my post rate, that's roughly one every 8 months, which means I'll be due copy number 25 in January 2026. Let's see if that happens...