Cover variations / Different Covers (Vinyl only)

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:04 pm

While beeing on KING DIAMOND ! Do you have the 3 Conspiracy Covers ?
I don't have the graveyard cover !

TheGreatEscape · Post by **TheGreatEscape** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:04 pm

chatzial wrote:
TheGreatEscape wrote:

KROKUS - Same LP

left one is the Original pressing with fantasy artwork
right one is the Swiss Record Club pressing
The original is a bitch to find, i only have the second pressing (the right one on your picture) but did not know that it was a legit issue.

There was a series from a Swiss Music Club called "Ex Libris" (the musical chain of the biggest retailer company in Switzerland):

Krokus - Same LP (White Cover)
Krokus - To you all LP (Orange Cover)
Krokus - Early days LP (Black Cover)

Many releases of this Record Club (mainly Beatles) are worth big bucks today!
http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar. ... 0183800548

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:08 pm

TheGreatEscape wrote: There was a series from a Swiss Music Club called "Ex Libris" (the musical chain of the biggest retailer company in Switzerland):

Krokus - Same LP (White Cover)
Krokus - To you all LP (Orange Cover)
Krokus - Early days LP (Black Cover)

Many releases of this Record Club (mainly Beatles) are worth big bucks today!
http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar. ... 0183800548

When where these released ?

chatzial · Post by **chatzial** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:11 pm

tbieri wrote:While beeing on KING DIAMOND ! Do you have the 3 Conspiracy Covers ?
I don't have the graveyard cover !

No just the Roadrunner, the picture disc and the Korean one. The original graveyard cover was just a handfull of copies of the picture sleeve given away at a U.S. radio show along with Cospiracy picture discs. There was never an original along with a normal vinyl. The ones that come with a vinyl are bootlegs (Brazilian or Greek).

chatzial · Post by **chatzial** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:16 pm

Ok, i also like good old Scorpions

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:16 pm

chatzial wrote:
tbieri wrote:While beeing on KING DIAMOND ! Do you have the 3 Conspiracy Covers ?
I don't have the graveyard cover !
No just the Roadrunner, the picture disc and the Korean one. The original graveyard cover was just a handfull of copies of the picture sleeve given away at a U.S. radio show along with Cospiracy picture discs. There was never an original along with a normal vinyl. The ones that come with a vinyl are bootlegs (Brazilian or Greek).

So nearly all that copies that where sold in the last years for hundreds of dollars where bootlegs ? Should i cry or laugh ?

chatzial · Post by **chatzial** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:22 pm

tbieri wrote:
chatzial wrote:
tbieri wrote:While beeing on KING DIAMOND ! Do you have the 3 Conspiracy Covers ?
I don't have the graveyard cover !
No just the Roadrunner, the picture disc and the Korean one. The original graveyard cover was just a handfull of copies of the picture sleeve given away at a U.S. radio show along with Cospiracy picture discs. There was never an original along with a normal vinyl. The ones that come with a vinyl are bootlegs (Brazilian or Greek).
So nearly all that copies that where sold in the last years for hundreds of dollars where bootlegs ? Should i cry or laugh ?

Yeah, it's a bit tragic. When the artwork was rejected there were already some covers printed. All of them were destroyed except for very few that were used (to promote the release) as a special price at a radio competition. Since they were only covers, the record company also included the picture disc version with them. Everything else you see for sale is a bootleg.

perishinflames · Post by **perishinflames** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:37 am

Wow, this forum is usually pretty dead, yet this thread has grown to 7 pages in one day? Where has everyone been hiding?

Out of curiosity, are your collections specifically to attain alternate covers, or do you just accumulate extra records? Just wondering. I would much rather buy new records than spend on alternate versions of items I already have. To each there own, if that is what you like then that's cool. But it seems to me like many rare records are so rare because some people are sitting on many copies.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:45 am

love this thread, crazy to see multiple versions of those 1st Krokus records, which I don't even have ANY version.

I have some variant pressings of albums, I usually only got them if there was something very different about each version (Cities is a classic example, the mlp version is 100% better than the longer version) or when I saw them cheap.

perishinflames wrote:Wow, this forum is usually pretty dead, yet this thread has grown to 7 pages in one day? Where has everyone been hiding?

Out of curiosity, are your collections specifically to attain alternate covers, or do you just accumulate extra records? Just wondering. I would much rather buy new records than spend on alternate versions of items I already have. To each there own, if that is what you like then that's cool. But it seems to me like many rare records are so rare because some people are sitting on many copies.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:46 am

tell me more about this one on the left with photo cover?!

chatzial wrote:

Buried By Time and Dust · Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:22 am

Battle Axe-burn this town
Sledeghammer-blood on their hands

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:30 am

tbieri wrote:

Man, look at the length of his neck on the right.

Fils Du Metal · Post by **Fils Du Metal** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:26 pm

regular cover and gatefold cover for the Metal Battle Sampler only released in Holland, this one I love one of my most precious records with the gatefold sleeve...

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:00 pm