ALONE IN A CROWD self titled 7"

REJECTED TEST PRESS
15 pressed
test press labels, stamped with "rejected" and numbered. Covers are black cardstock with a photo glued to the front.
ACCEPTED TEST PRESS
15 pressed
green paper fold over covers, hand numbered on the cover and the record labels.
FIRST PRESS
30 or so swirled
these are swirls of white and solid green or light green and clear green.
FIRST PRESS
170 mint green
mostly solid mint green (200 total on color vinyl)
FIRST PRESS
1800 black vinyl



VERSE Four Songs 7"

TEST PRESS
5 pressed
blank blue labels, hand stamped/#'d. Hand made spraypaint stencil covers.
FIRST PRESS
7 clear green vinyl
a couple of the clear green are slightly mixed with white
FIRST PRESS
98 solid green swirled vinyl
FIRST PRESS
11 yellow/ green mixed vinyl
FIRST PRESS
383 solid yellow marble vinyl
FIRST PRESS
1 black / yellow mixed vinyl
FIRST PRESS
500 black vinyl
SECOND PRESS (mailorder version)
200 on clear vinyl
cream colored labels, number stamped. The first 10 or so copies have a tiny bit of white mixed into them.
SECOND PRESS (tour version)
23 on pink and grey (black) mixed vinyl
Some are almost black while soem are almost pink. The one shown is in the middle.
SECOND PRESS (tour version)
277 on solid pink vinyl
(some are quite light pink, but still pink)



VERSE Four Songs CDep

One Pressing
1000 made



VERSE Digipack CDR Demo

One "batch"
200 Made
screen printed digipacks with black spraypainted CDR. Two songs, unmastered versions of the first two songs on "Four SOngs". Hand numbered on back cover.



CORM Everything Steamlined CD

One pressing
1,000 made



THE GET UP KIDS - Loveteller 7"

TEST PRESS
5 pressed
FIRST PRESS
2,014 pressed
tan linen style textured paper with black printing on the insert. the contrast mailing address as the bottom was N Kingstown, RI.
SECOND PRESS
1,035 pressed
The same tan textured linen paper insert but printed with brown ink this time around. Contrast mailing address is Providence, RI for this and following pressings
THIRD PRESS
1,023 pressed
black photocopied inserts on beige paper with visable paper filaments in it.. Providence mailing address for contrast records.
FOURTH PRESS
1,092 pressed
Orange labels, Black photocopy on plain grey paper for the insert. The contrast website was changed for this pressing from www.ids.net/contrast/ -to- users.ids.net/contrast
FIFTH PRESS
597 pressed
Blue vinyl and blue paper for the insert. All new insert design for this press as well.
sixth press info: The 5th press was supposed to be the final press with 500 on blue and 1000 on black. The pressing plant went ot of business halfway through and only sent the 597 on blue shown above. I had around 800 covers left over still so eventually I finished the "final press" but had to go to a new plant which meant new mastering, test presses, labels, etc.
TEST PRESS (6th press)
12 pressed
These tests transitioned from blue vinyl to black vinyl. There were around 5 that were solid black. The rest had some amount of dark solid blue. Spray paint stenciled cover with a different leaf for each one.
SIXTH PRESS
200 pressed
solid orange vinyl. Handmade covers for these with paper I bought on a trip to Nepal, spray paint stenciled logo, and a real photo on the cover.
SIXTH PRESS
10 pressed
Black/Orange transition variants. There were a small amount of these that ranged from swirly black to orange with some dark swirls in it from when the plant switched from the black vinyl to the orange vinyl.
SIXTH PRESS
800 pressed
Black vinyl. regular covers. Green insert.



PIEBALD / IN VAIN split 7"

TEST PRESS
7 pressed various handmade covers.
FIRST PRESS
1,000 or so pressed on Black blackand white offset printed covers.
SECOND PRESS
500 or so pressed on Black brown ink printed covers
SECOND PRESS
37 with handmade covers hand cut and assembled covers, with inlayed photographs of both bands. There were 37 copies of the 7" left that never had covers. Many years after it had gone out of print we made these covers to get rid of the last remaining copies.