hankmurphy Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 My Lifetime tests are the ones I value the most, and the Shook Ones test has the coolest cover. Lifetime - Hello Bastards - Jade Tree Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers - Jade Tree Bomb The Music Industry! - Album Minus Band - Asbestos Bomb The Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World - Asbestos Spraynard - Exton Square - Square of Opposition Dear Landlord - Dream Homes - No Idea Shook Ones - Sixteen - Endwell Houseboat - The Delaware Octopus - It's Alive The Gateway District - S/T - Rock Bottom Like Bats - Look On The Bright Side - Traffic Street (I'm pretty sure this is a test press) Like Bats - Midwest Nothing - John Wilkes Booth Rivethead - Cheap Wine Of Youth - Recess Go Rydell - The Golden Age - Black Numbers The Haddonfields - We Are Not Alone - I Hate Punk Rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stl_ben Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 OK Ill jump in on this. Test Presses (not numbered, because they weren't available commercially): Jack White - 16 Saltines 7" John C Reilly - Ill be there if You Ever Want 7" Black Milk - Brain 7" Edgar Oliver - In The Park 7" Denney & The Jets - Pain Pills 7" Cy Barkley & the Way Outsiders - Rock Together 7" The Ettes - Teeth 7" Pujol - 2010 7" Pujol - Angelbaby 7" Pujol - How High 7" Meemaw - Glass Elevator 7" Pujol - United States of Being LP Two Tongues - Self Title LP Say Anything - Is a Real Boy LP Hell Beach - Welcome to Hell Beach LP Test Presses sold by the Label: Deerhoof - Symphonies Flexi 3/5 Of Montreal - Domestic Drummer Flexi 3/5 Tortoise - Hot Coffee Flexi 4/5 Big Eyes / Audacity - Split 7" #40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Oh hey, the dick-measuring contest thread has been bumped!!! hudsoncomplex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindovermatter Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 i have a few tests: Athletics - Why Aren't I Home? Caspian - Live At Old South Church Deadhorse - We Can Create Our Own World If you ever decide to sell or trade that Deadhorse test, please let me know. I screen printed the artwork for it and realllly wanted a copy, but all were spoken for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isavedlatin54 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I recentlygot an rx-bandits test through a trade. Had a screen-printed jacket. It's my first and only test. Most of the time I can't justify spending them amount they go for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtomoe123 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Yeah, I just have one test too. Limbeck's Hi, Everything's Great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludesmaaan Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Bridge and Tunnel - East/West LP Bridge and Tunnel - Rebuilding Year LP Bridge and Tunnel - s/t 7" Bridge and Tunnel / Young Livers - split 7" Worn In Red - Banshees LP Worn In Red - In The Offing LP RVIVR - s/t LP RVIVR - Life Moves 7" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclz Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 This should be all my test pressings. I've also made my own covers for most of them. 7"s Break Anchor / Unsinkable Molly Brown - Great Lakes, Great Mistakes Split 7" (/20) Fed Up! / Addvice For Addicts - Split 7" (/??) Hellmouth / Explode And Make Up - Split 7" (/20 w/ mock Weezer cover) Moral Crux - Victim of Hype 7" (#5/7) Red Fish - A Broken Light 7" (/5) Saint Alvia (Cartel) - Joxner 7" (/?? - dark gray marble) Walker / Back Of Dave - Split 7" (/?? - alternative cover) LPs Moral Crux - S/T (2008 Press) LP (#11/15) Moral Crux - Pop Culture Assassins LP (#15/15) MU330 - Press LP (#3/13) MU330 - Chumps On Parade LP (#11/12) Oblivion - Stop Thief LP (/10) Teenage Bottlerocket / Iron Reagan - Live In '06/2012 Demo LP (/20 - green marble vinyl) OPERATION IVY RELATED (except rancid/db/downfall) Classics Of Love - Walking In Shadows 12" (#4/10) Classics Of Love - S/T LP - (#6/10) Common Rider - Thief In A Sleeping Town 7" (/5) Operation Ivy - Energy (Pic Disc Test) LP (/??) Various Artists - Liverache: Tales From The Liver's Edge 2xLP (/?? - includes Schlong) RANCID RELATED(except op ivy) Devils Brigade - S/T 12" (/??) Rancid - S/T 7" (/5) Rancid/Cock Sparrer - Split 7" (/15) Rancid - S/T 1993 (Pic Disc Test) LP (/??) Rancid - Let's Go (Pic Disc Test) LP (/??) Rancid - Life Won't Wait 2xLP (/5) Rancid - Life Won't Wait (Pic Disc Test) LP (/??) Rancid - S/T 2000 (Pic Disc Test) LP (/??) Rancid - Sick Sick World 12" (/??) Various Artist - Can of Pork 2xLP (/?? - includes Downfall) Various Artists They Don’t Get Paid, They Don’t Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard! LP (/?? - includes Downfall) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry47591 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 i have three besides my own release. I am the avalanche - s/t - i won this one allister - last stop suburbia - only way to get the album Punchline - delightfully pleased - only way i could get the album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xschurzix Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I have some tests: Almost Home – closure Test Press (out of 5) Austin Lucas - Somebody loves you - Test Press (#15/20) Austin Lucas - Frank Turner - Under the Influence - Split - Test Press (#12/20) Austin Lucas - Putting The Hammer Down - Test Press (#3/4) Austin Lucas - Cory Branan - Split - Test Press (#3/5) Austin Lucas - The Takers - Split - Test Press (#9/20) Austin Lucas - Live at the white water tavery - Test Press (out of3) Austin Lucas - The Common Cold - Test Press (#7/8) Austin Lucas - collection - Test Press (black #4/5) Austin Lucas - collection - Test Press (pink #11/20) Austin Lucas - a new home, in the old world - Test Press (#4/10) Battery - until the end - Test Press (out of 10) Battery - let the past go/ we won´t fall - Test Press (out of 10) Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz – Test Press Chuck Ragan - Feast or Famine – Test Press Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas - Bristle Ridge – Test Press (#3/7) Chuck Ragan - break our bread - Test Press (#2/3) Chuck Ragan - The Boat / For Broken Ears – Test Press Chuck Ragan - It's What You Will / Symmetry – Test Press Chuck Ragan - Valentine / Do What You Do – Test Press Chuck Ragan - Valentine / Do What You Do – Test Press (Bad A-Side) Chuck Ragan - Do You Pray / Congratulations Joe – Test Press Chuck Ragan - The Grove / Above The Flames – Test Press Chuck Ragan - Open Up and Wail / Sound of a Gun – Test Press Chuck Ragan - Trenchfoot / Done and Done – Test Press Chuck Ragan - The Refugio Kids & Friends – Test Press (out of 3) Chris Wollard – Mike Hale Split (#7/10) Chris Wollard – drag the river - split - Test Press (#4/8) Chris Wollard – Canyons - Test Press (#1/20) Discount – Cigaretteman Split – Test Press (out of 5) Empty Handed – Could Youth – Test Press (#3/4) Good Clean Fun – shopping for a crew – Test Press Hot Water Music – Till The Wheels Fall Of – Test Pressing Hot Water Music – live in Chicago – Test Press (#1/20) Josh Small – Juke – Test Press (#6/15) Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile - Test Press (#25/25) Rumbleseat - is dead - unreleased 14 song version – Test Press Rust Belt Lights – long gone - Test Press (#18/18) The Cold Harbour - Long Road Blues – Test Press (#2/3) Verse – Rebuild – Test Press (#16/20) Carry the Torch - Tribute to Kid Dynamit – Test Press (#4/20) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Anyone with MU330 - Chumps On Parade have a film residue leftover from the rubbery sleeve Mike Park shipped the test press in? Want to figure out how to get this off the record... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Rub a pumice stone all over your record. Should fix it right up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Rub a pumice stone all over your record. Should fix it right up. Awesome! Thanks for the tip!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Fuck, just totally scratched the living shit out of my MU330 - Chumps On Parade test pressing with a pumice stone. DO NOT USE ONE OF THESE TO CLEAN RECORDS WITH! Anyone want a frisbee? 000000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacooper Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I just have a couple, they're always so damn expensive: Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home (signed) The Early November - Rooms Too Cold (/16) Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (/8) Thrice - Identity Crisis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mameeshkamowskwoz Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Fuck, just totally scratched the living shit out of my MU330 - Chumps On Parade test pressing with a pumice stone. DO NOT USE ONE OF THESE TO CLEAN RECORDS WITH! Anyone want a frisbee? You did not seriously try that did you?! I laughed pretty hard when I saw that tip and even harder when I read that someone had tried it!! So does anyone have any tips on scoring test pressings? I have very few (11 of the 12 joyful noise monthly subscription flexis, SWAPS and the Don Caballero live album, all from joyful noise and a Town Managers 7 inch (Dead Milkmen side project)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethingvinyl Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Pretty sure this is the only test I've added since I posted in this thread: Craig's Brother - "Lost At Sea" LP (Tooth & Nail/Veritas Vinyl/Vinyl Remains - x/10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 You did not seriously try that did you?! I laughed pretty hard when I saw that tip and even harder when I read that someone had tried it!! So does anyone have any tips on scoring test pressings? I have very few (11 of the 12 joyful noise monthly subscription flexis, SWAPS and the Don Caballero live album, all from joyful noise and a Town Managers 7 inch (Dead Milkmen side project)) ...that was obviously a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 You did not seriously try that did you?! I laughed pretty hard when I saw that tip and even harder when I read that someone had tried it!! So does anyone have any tips on scoring test pressings? I have very few (11 of the 12 joyful noise monthly subscription flexis, SWAPS and the Don Caballero live album, all from joyful noise and a Town Managers 7 inch (Dead Milkmen side project)) Yes!!! I was hoping someone would actually fall for my joke. No I didn't really, thought it was a stupid recommendation in the first place, why I tried to mock it. Really though, if anyone has any recommendations, I'd appreciate it. I've tried dish soap and rubbing alcohol and neither was able to take it off. Asian Man sent it over in a rubbery type plastic sleeve that left some traces behind that I just cannot figure out how to get off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 thought it was a stupid recommendation in the first place, why I tried to mock it. It was meant to be a stupid recommendation as a joke, Derp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 It was meant to be a stupid recommendation as a joke, Derp. Yeah just wasnt funny, why I tried to spice up the gag a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Yeah just wasnt funny, why I tried to spice up the gag a bit. Yeah, you really spiced it up by dulling it down even more. Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Yeah, you really spiced it up by dulling it down even more. Congratulations. Someone sounds a little sore??? Now youre acting funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolt Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Bands seem to use their test pressings as another variant, which kind of boggles my mind. A test press or an acetate is just a by-product of the record-making process. If anything, half the time they sound like crap 'cause they are TESTS. That they are so (comparatively) easy to come by these days devalues the entire category as a whole. Of course, I'm also a cranky old guy. That said, I have a few that fell into my lap for acts I don't care about—Killing Joke, Yoko Ono, Gypsy Kings, Firetown and a few others—and only one or two for bands that I love (Love & Money UK 7" acetate for "Halleluiah Man" and the test pressing got when I made Too Much Joy's "Dr. Seuss Is Dead" EP for the fan club). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbrh2001 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Bands seem to use their test pressings as another variant, which kind of boggles my mind. A test press or an acetate is just a by-product of the record-making process. If anything, half the time they sound like crap 'cause they are TESTS. That they are so (comparatively) easy to come by these days devalues the entire category as a whole. Of course, I'm also a cranky old guy. That said, I have a few that fell into my lap for acts I don't care about—Killing Joke, Yoko Ono, Gypsy Kings, Firetown and a few others—and only one or two for bands that I love (Love & Money UK 7" acetate for "Halleluiah Man" and the test pressing got when I made Too Much Joy's "Dr. Seuss Is Dead" EP for the fan club). Care to sell your Gypsy Kings test press? Ive got a friend who might be interested in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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