Back in 2020 I completed a collection of Black Flag colour vinyl 7"s, which was a journey that took me 12 years. One of the problems with record collecting these days, however, is that collections may not remain complete because represses and reissues are being churned out at an alarming rate.
So a couple of months ago I got an email from a UK record store containing a list of their latest stock, and I noticed that they had a copy of Black Flag's 'TV Party' 7" listed on yellow vinyl. My first instinct was to look around on the internet to find out more, but there was literally no information about this anywhere. I then thought that perhaps the listing was an error. But I also know that this shop always lists vinyl colours, so there was a strong possibility that it was a new pressing and they were the first place online to have it. So i decided to buy a copy and take a chance. But then I also decided that it would make more sense to buy two copies, thinking that I could potentially gift one to a fellow collector if this turned out to be rare. So I ordered two copies of the yellow vinyl pressing and this is what I received:
As you can see, one copy is definitely yellow, whilst the other is definitely not. It's a dark greenish teal type colour.
Well, then I started chatting to a fellow Black Flag collector and he went into full on chase mode and ordered copies from a record store and also from SST directly. I'm not sure exactly how many copies he ended up with, but in the end he let me know that he had a couple of spares on slightly different colours, and asked if I was interested. Well, of course I was. So this is what I ended up with:
The first copy is a slightly reddish, greyish brown colour, whilst the second is a greenish greyish colour.
What's kinda funny about this is that in the whole of time up to this year, there were only 3 different colour vinyl copies of this record - red and yellow vinyl (from the 90s) and an orange vinyl from 2011. And here I am in 2025 with four additional colours. I'm pretty sure that these are all part of the same pressing, which I would guess is from a 'scrap' or 'random' pressing, but still, there is no denying that these are different colours. No other variants of this pressing have yet surfaced, but it wouldn't surprise me if some did. But without doubt this all feels a bit low key and given the lack of information, how few people have added it to their collection in discogs and the lack of places selling it, this could turn out to be a pretty rare version of this record, so worth grabbing one if you have the chance.
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