the great vinyl-reissue-god maketh thee! worship! sick of it all's first full length record sat for quite some time on my wantlist. not on top of it but definitely there. of course i had plenty options to buy a copy in the past. the first press on in-effect goes for really fair money on discogs (on a side note, i like the weird fact that there were only the lyrics of 'injustice system' printed on the dust sleeve, and you could order a lyric paper sheet with the rest seperately from the label). the kingfisher coloured re-press from 1999 sells in the same range.
availability wasn't an issue. price wasn't too. but there is something about records which are not on top of the want list, and that's simply the fact of medium importance. there are a shitload of them on the list and i always postpone when there are more urgent things to buy. but i know for sure, the time will come. in this case the time had come with a recent re-press.
strength records from the netherlands felt that, after the kingfisher re-press in '99, the street justice picture disc from 2006 and the reflections records black press from 2010, the world needed another version of this classic. in my book they are damn right with that assumption. strength pressed three colours and black vinyl. 100 on silver vinyl, 250 on red vinyl, 250 on black and 400 red/grey swirl w/ black splatter vinyl. i opted for the most interesting. some may argue that this colour pattern is too much but i think it looks pretty nice. check out some hardcore history here. strength records. 2014.
