A Senile Animal, Nude with Boots, and The Bride reissues

[jules]

I wonder what test pressings are for?

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

I wonder what test pressings are for?

Yep.

[Tobias]

On my copy of NWB both labels are labeled as "B". Anyone else's like this?

[dirtmerchant]

How hilarious would it be if both sides are actually pressed with the b side songs. Everyone would have only half the album.

[cooter]

On my copy of NWB both labels are labeled as "B". Anyone else's like this?

nope

I got the cheaper apple red one if that helps.

[#2 Pencil]

On Discogs reviews have it ipecac is aware and will replace the records (in December 🤦‍♂️). It appears to be the first 1000 pressed and includes the limited blue/splatter. Someone there says it also seems to be Amazon UK shipments, not sure on this though. I have blue asa coming from jb here in aus with red nwb and bsm also. If they're fucked up, I'll let you know.

[WGB]

Sea blue, ordered from Amazon UK, no worm.

Ipecac should step up and just send everyone the correct record. It's their fuck up. Let us keep the 'collectors item'

[GiveMe45]

I ordered all 3 at the same time on Amazon.  On Monday their status all changed to 'Arriving Friday'.  Yesterday their status all changed to 'Arriving Friday by 8pm'.  Bride left Newark, NJ last night at 10:43pm and made its way through Louisville,KY and Spokane, WA before arriving today at 2pm.  Senile and Boots 'arrived at carrier facility' in Fort Worth, TX at 4:30pm yesterday but didn't leave until 9am this morning.  Last update is that it arrived in Louisville at 1:45pm and it still says arriving by 8pm tonight......

[asjbean23]

I wonder what test pressings are for?

Just got my 3 limited versions this morning. Bummer about the mispress, but hey, at least they're not dished this time! Labels on NWB correct. All three look wonderful...great to see Mackie art in the preferred footlong format.

[jonE5]

For most of these turntables you can buy an external power supply. These small boxes usually also have a switch 33/45 that steers the motor directly without switching the belt on the pulley. I bought one for my rega player. I think it was 200 to 300.

Yes.. One of these. Great investment because it is a total pain to switch speeds on a belt drive. And you end up stretching the belt out over time too. Until I got this I rarely played any of my 45rpm records too because of that.
https://www.rega.co.uk/accessories/neo-ttpsu
I got that one for my Rega turntable also. I have the Planar 3.
https://www.rega.co.uk/products/planar-3
It's a beauty. I love it's simplistic elegance and it has one of the best tonearms around for it's price point.

It's this one.

Whoa. That's a beautiful turntable. I've just sold mine (bought new in around 1981) and will be looking for something like this to replace it. Reading the blurb, I see it increases stiffness, too, which has to be a bonus.

Jules.. Rega is an Iconic producer and they are made in the UK. Check them out. I love mine

Buzz would say he doesn't own a turntable

I can totally see him saying that. I would guess that most people who buy these on vinyl (and most vinyl purchasers out there) don't really intend on playing them anyway. It's just a collectors thing so i doubt it matters too much that a song is missing or such.

This quote makes no sense to me. Yes I "Collect" records. But it is because I love to listen to music on vinyl.
I couldn't imagine buying records and not playing them.

[jules]

Jules.. Rega is an Iconic producer and they are made in the UK. Check them out. I love mine

Hey. I haven't looked at a Rega since everyone started buying the Planar 2 in the late 70s/early 80s. I didn't like the 'S' - shaped tonearm or that it had only 3 feet. I bought a Sansui SR-222 Mk.IV because it was black, built like a tank and it looked like it would last for ever. It probably will. It was still playing perfectly when I sold it a couple of months ago. Regas nowadays look nicer.

BTW a neighbour of mine has been building mind-blowing hi-fi equipment for as long as I've been in Hove. If I had the money, I'd spend it on him:

https://www.audionote.co.uk/turntables

[))))((((]

This quote makes no sense to me. Yes I "Collect" records. But it is because I love to listen to music on vinyl.
I couldn't imagine buying records and not playing them.

Obviously a lot - such as yourself - do purchase vinyl to listen to it. But honestly many don't. It would be interesting to know a percentage either way among music fans. Yet even on here im sure there are quite a few who collect them solely as desirable items.

[vince furnier]

i'll keep the fuck up and order the fix. only question is, how different will these be without opening and listening to it? something needs to be visibly different on the cover or back cover (or spine) to distinctively tell these two versions apart, right?

[jules]

something needs to be visibly different on the cover or back cover (or spine) to distinctively tell these two versions apart, right?

When Nude With Boots was recalled (warping, remember?) the replacements came with a sleeve that had a small "JK2" on the back that the original didn't.

[dirtmerchant]

something needs to be visibly different on the cover or back cover (or spine) to distinctively tell these two versions apart, right?

When Nude With Boots was recalled (warping, remember?) the replacements came with a sleeve that had a small "JK2" on the back that the original didn't.

I didn't know they offered replacements. I remember it being the same kind of deal as this senile animal. Kind of " send it back if you're not happy" and that was it. Was that a JK2 a sticker on the shrink or what?

Also, I keep reading it was 1000 copies that are messed up, that's the whole pressing right? They don't use different stampers for different colors.  The limited one was 500 copies so that means the normal blue is 500 as well haha. Those slick bastards.