Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:31 pm
With the Ritual album, the band allegedly destroyed most of the copies since they didn't have the band name printed on the cover, and they didn't want to sell their album w/o their name on it. Makes sense; it'd be like writing a book and not having your name as the author. For years people thought that LP was by a band called Widow b/c of the misprint.
The Paradoxx story is similar; the band never picked up the other copies from the pressing plant b/c they thought they looked bad/the labels were incorrect, and didn't want to sell their record if it looked bad. The plant eventually destroyed the leftover copies that were never picked up.
In both cases, few copies made it into circulation, so the supply was always low, hence the rarity. As the albums gained a cult status, more collectors kept them and copies became even rarer.
Others are rare b/c few were ever made in the first place. The yellow Avatar (which is the subject of much hilarity in the 'Top Items' thread currently) is rare b/c only 10-20 copies were made to begin with. Few copies + popular band = very rare about 26 years later.
The Paradoxx story is similar; the band never picked up the other copies from the pressing plant b/c they thought they looked bad/the labels were incorrect, and didn't want to sell their record if it looked bad. The plant eventually destroyed the leftover copies that were never picked up.
In both cases, few copies made it into circulation, so the supply was always low, hence the rarity. As the albums gained a cult status, more collectors kept them and copies became even rarer.
Others are rare b/c few were ever made in the first place. The yellow Avatar (which is the subject of much hilarity in the 'Top Items' thread currently) is rare b/c only 10-20 copies were made to begin with. Few copies + popular band = very rare about 26 years later.