Shellac – At Action Park

This reprinting was released in 2024, a few months after Steve’s death, I believe. I pre-ordered it.

Rock doesn’t get better than this, unless one includes “1000 Hurts,” “Excellent Italian Greyhound,” or “Dude Incredible.”

Every note from this vinyl feels like an electric needle cutting right into your brain. In other words, it sounds fantastic.

Every time someone dies, first press increase in price, and here too, someone wants to sell reprints at an inflated price.

I have a pressing that isn’t listed. It looks exactly like this one, Made in England on one label and label code on the other, ”pressed into 165 grams of virgin dye-blackened vinyl” printed inside the sleeve. However, the record is 180 grams and the matrix numbers are A-01-01-2 / B-01-01-2 (otherwise exactly the same as this entry).

A guess would be that this is a second pressing that came before the 2002 reissue, as neither the labels nor the ”pressed on 165 grams” text has been changed, but I don’t know?

Sounds better than any other copy I’ve owned, and it’s got the embossed/printed center label thing like To All Trains has. Yet another argument against buying original pressings in general.

it also says "Injection molded into 180 grams of amorphous polyethylene terephthalate" instead of the virgin thing, so the latest repress definitely deserves its own entry at some point

my copy has the different shaped cutout on the inner sleeve like this, but the sides are folded differently. it also only lists a single press used in the gatefold, very confusing

Is Touch and Go planning another repress? It’s been sold out everywhere since Albini’s ing. People want crazy prices for copies. A 30th anniversary edition would be appropriate, RIP Albini.

The story was they detached the digital preview from Abbey Road's chain to cut this all analog.