2026 Goals

The Rev posts continue this week following on from me receiving a delivery from RevHQ last week...

Today's post is a couple of recent pressings of the CIV 'Set Your Goals' LP. The last pressing of this one was in 2018, so it was no real surprise when a blue marble vinyl pressing appeared towards the end of last year (2025). When this went up for sale I thought to myself 'I'll pick up one of those at some point', and then a couple of weeks later I checked RevHQ and it was sold out. So I pushed this up the priority list and looked around to see if I snap one up from one somewhere else. Everywhere I looked it was sold out, and the less rational part of my brain started to mildly panic. I kicked myself for being so casual about buying a copy. I mean, in years gone by, the thought of ignoring a Rev colour vinyl pressing and thinking I could get one later would have been ridiculous, so given the state of record collecting in 2026 I'm not ure why I thought I could sit back. Lesson learned. Anyway, after a bit of searching I found a UK store with it for sale, and thinking that this seemed to be in high demand, I decided to buy two copies.

My plan was to keep one and then hold one for trade, but when the two copies arrived they turned out to be completely different colours, with one being light blue and the other being very dark blue. It reminded me of the Quicksand 7". So I then bought another, thinking that there could be a lot of interesting variation in the pressing, which is something I always love to see.

So that's how I ended up with three copies, which are all quite different. Technically these are all part of the 2025 blue marble vinyl press (of 544 copies).

After I had the blue ones, Rev then announced a burgundy pressing (presumably a colour decided on in order to match the artwork). And whilst I think that this colour is definitely a good match to the artwork, it's also kinda boring.

The burgundy is a 2026 press (out of 1100 copies). I think these are going to be around a lot longer than the blue.