Interesting release history. Originally issued only on vinyl in 1987, when CDs had been in production for a few years, but it wasn’t released on CD until 1992, without a remaster. It was later remastered and reissued in 2002 and 2012, but annoyingly has two bonus tracks after the last song, “Last Song.” This seems like a mistake to me for an arguably hardcore release. Anyway, those remastered CDs go for a fortune, and I won’t buy original vinyl usually if there was a remastered CD. I guess I would make an exception if these were selling for reasonable prices, because of the historical importance of this, but they are not. In this case, I went for the 1992 release, even though it appears to be a first-generation CD analog transfer, because it has no bonus tracks, is essentially a companion release to the 1987 vinyl, and one was available for a reasonable price. Of course, Dischord has a habit of re-releasing things, and I predict that as soon as I receive my 1992 release, they will do just that with this.
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