Vinyl Noize | yellow/white wax

Seller the1234gorecordsstore always has some goodies up on ebay. Nothing monumental, but lots of little gap fillers. This would be one of those gap fillers if it wasn’t also gapped.

Here’s what the seller has to say about this record:

Only 450 copies made. You may know better than I but I believe when this came out that they either were selling the 7″ and you had to have the sleeve mailed to you or vice versa. Either way this one doesn’t have a sleeve.

In this case, we obviously know more than the seller. Here’s the real story.

The vinyl was pressed for the 10th anniversary gig Bane played in Worcester. Something happened with the vinyl such that it wouldn’t be available for the gig. BUT all the inserts and sleeves WOULD be available. So they whipped up 500 CDs and sold those in the place. Each CD and sleeve was hand numbered. EVR then went SUPER out of their way and allowed people to enter their record number and mailing address on a webform. They then mailed out the EP to every person when they finally got them from the plant. There were 500 pressed up. At the time of numbering, it was decided that 50 of them were going to be stashed aside for a special friends only thing. To this day, I don’t think that ever happened. Of course, since these were all hand numbered, some people created funny numbers like “Stevie of 450″ and stuff like that.

Now here’s the odd part. Somehow, the seller has the vinyl but no sleeve or CD. That’s real weird. I am pretty sure some scamming went along with these CDs, as the web form was simply an email to EVR with a number and mailing address. Pretty simple to spoof. It’s sad that hardcore kids would do that to a label that was basically giving these away.

So there you have it. I might just pick this up, as I have a sleeve in need of the vinyl.