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It's from Music On Vinyl. They're out of the Netherlands, yes. December 15 was the original release date -- nothing's been pushed back.
Full details here: http://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/original-soundtrack/transformers
 
MOV stuff is always high-quality, but due to international shipping, licensing fees, and the heaviness of the vinyl, you're going to pay $32 per, minimum. It's worth the money, though. I've probably a dozen soundtrack releases from them, and they've always turned out wonderfully.
 
Oh, and a small side bonus from ordering their stuff is that the release dates aren't ever pushed back. They have their own pressing plant.

It's from Music On Vinyl. They're out of the Netherlands, yes. December 15 was the original release date -- nothing's been pushed back.
Full details here: http://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/original-soundtrack/transformers
 
MOV stuff is always high-quality, but due to international shipping, licensing fees, and the heaviness of the vinyl, you're going to pay $32 per, minimum. It's worth the money, though. I've probably a dozen soundtrack releases from them, and they've always turned out wonderfully.
 
Oh, and a small side bonus from ordering their stuff is that the release dates aren't ever pushed back. They have their own pressing plant.

The question I'd like to ask is, "Is it true that your first album is mostly about my ex-girlfriend?"

I sorta get the whole "Being a fan of music is not a hobby, it's a way of life" but that argument falls flat when it comes to test presses. You can buy every single one of those records for less than what Mista Raws is charging for the tests. If you were only buying vinyl for the music, you'd only be buying straight from the label and wouldn't have any reason to be spending 3-5 times as much money for a white label copy with no or limited artwork.

From this Discogs post (http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/226494):
 
"I work in a pressing plant i haven't been there long, a few months... but, As far as i am aware "Black" vinyl is the best all round hands down! it is made up of small black pellets similar looking to blue slug pellets, but black obviously. It has been designed especially for the use of making records, it contains special oils etc which lubricate the stylus within the groove as its played, my advisor told me it has had 100's of thousands of pounds put into formulating the special blend of chemicals and plastics to form the perfect record, it plays & provids the very best in audio qualtiy and durability of the coloured or black records. it can be recycled and usually there is about a 2% of old recycled records in a new record.
 
"Colored vinyl", is made up of pellets of clear vinyl, similar to the black vinyl and the color is just added in the form of whatever color pellets and the clear pellets..., there is a formular but it is mostly clear pellets rather than color pellets. so all color records are made from clear plastic pellets mostly therefore all color records should technically sound roughly the same(providing the same stamper was used).
 
the colored vinyl can come in a whole array of colors and we have a color swatch with many shades etc possibly a 100-150, it looks like a paint chart its quite amazing really. Colored vinyl is nowhere near as good in terms of audio quality, however dope it looks!
 
the main problem i am told is that color vinyl has a problem with surface noise. the wear rate is roughly the same as black, however black will sound better through its entire life span. coloured vinyl isnt specially manufactured for records like the black vinyl is and this is the reason for lesser quality. the same plastic pellets could be used elsewhere to make cups or whatever... You could in theory spend £100,000s on formulating a special blend pellet but who really has that kind of money to throw away....

Id say if you where to release something go for black viny, coloured records are more of novolty/specialist items...

The only real way of distinguishing would be to have a record pressed in black and whatever colour, made using the very same stamper. some releases in the uk may have been stamped differently so will inevitebly sound different."

Somebody buy this. If I didn't already have it, I would. Serious visual prettiness.

^^^^^ I wasn't impressed by either, and I like Mastadon.

Skavooie please.