This page can help you metallicollectors to have an idea of what is an overstock,
what is an home made overstock, what is a repress. This is always
my idea about overstock, my opinion.
® an overstock born because an
overmuch of vinyls remain without original cover. If you
order 1000 pressings of a vinyl the factory will make you 1000 plus about
10%-15% extra. This is because they have to do this as vinyl is not an exact
art: when each record is pressed there is always a small amount that gets cut
off after each pressing, this means they have to add extra vinyl. Lp covers are
almost always made by a different factory: if you order 1000 you will get 1000
covers, maybe a few extra but not many.
® an overstock is
made by the man or company that originally made the vinyls or by another person
that had buy all the overstock vinyls, and there are from 50 to 150 overstock
vinyl.
An
overstock is not made by one person that make 4 or 5 copies (or low!)
for keep easy money a lot of years later than original issue. That’s a
crappy home made!!!
You can see also a numbered edition …/100, but maybe there are only 5 copies! Impossible to know for sure of many copies was made.
® than for boots of
metallica it’s very hard (impossible) to say what is a “real” overstock (than with a lot of
copies made: 50, 100, or more) and what is an home made overstock (few few
copies), but some old overstocks there are not so bad to collect it (if you
want).
In
the list there are some old overstock that have a good collectable value, like
llik ‘em all and metal mash (purple insert), that maybe there are not an home
made overstock but a real overstock with a lot of copy; but there are also a
crappy home made like I hope you mother fucker die soon or demontage).
® another problem is that
an overstock it’s easy to counterfeit it. You photocopies the insert and
put the original vinyl inside…., you have the ‘rare’ overstock.
So,
if you want to collect it, be sure that there are ‘original’ copy…,
especially for the old one (more
value), but it’s too hard to say it’s true or fake!!!
® maybe some of this
overstock are really made in 50, 100 or more copies (so not by one man that
make 5 crappy home made overstock!) but I have not evidence abut that, so I
have decide to put all the overstock in the same list. Just you know that some
overstocks are a good collectable (the old one), some other are a shit, and
about that all the collectors can have a different idea.
® than most of the
overstock of metallica bootlegs there are home made overstock. Some collectors had
some extra copies of a bootleg, keep only the vinyl, and made a new insert
cover: finally he have made a new bootleg for sale (and for make money!). This
kind of overstock normally is made in 5, 10, 15 copies, not more.
Normally this overstock born years later than the original issue (also 15 years!), that is not normal in a “normal” overstock.
® an overstock lp have always the same matrix
number, same colour vinyl, the same label of the original vinyl, simply because
it is the original vinyl!
But there are some overstock that have change the matrix number (or
deleted) and change the label. This is always the original vinyl, but it’s
adapted! This overstock it’s always home
made, and normally this kind of overstock are always a good lot (maybe 50 or
100 copies, because don’t make sense to change matrix and label for 3 or 5
copies only).
® a repress (new press, not the original 1°
issue vinyl like for an overstock, but a reissue!) of another record
have the same recording, same matrix, but normally change the label and the
cover (or only the cover, or only the label). A lot of repress have plain white
label and a cover more easy to make (like an insert or a normal cover if the
original was a box edition, all this for spend the low money possible).
Normally a repress is made by the same “factory” (or “home made factory”) that
had made the original, but not always! The edition it’s always more than 100
copies made (normally 500, 1000 or more).
If a record have the same gig
inside, but matrix, labels different, is not a repress or reissue!!
Repress (only few example)
Reissue:
Damaged justice tour ‘89 Reissue: Acting like a maniac
plain white label Overstock
Overstock:
Demontage Overstock: The fly of a bee Overstock: Atomica melancholica, 2lp Overstock: One for you Overstock: On tour Overstock: Creeping death (orange insert) Overstock: Sad but true Overstock: Years of sorrow (UK) Overstock: Years of sorrow (GER) Overstock: The metal years, 2lp Overstock: The metal monster Overstock: Metal mash (red insert) Overstock: Live in concert (white cover), 2lp Overstock: Terror of death Overstock: Weed killer (insert) Overstock: I hope you mother fucker die soon Overstock: Masters of metal vol.1 and vol. 2 Overstock: Metallica Zwolle (yellow insert) Overstock: Cleveland ‘84 Overstock: Cliff ‘em all Overstock: Supercharged Overstock: Alcoholica (beer insert) Overstock: Metal mash (purple insert) Overstock: Llik ‘em all (blue insert) Overstock: Goodbye, Cliff R.I.P Overstock: Fucking nuts (insert) Overstock: Made in Obervolta (insert) Overstock: Nuclear blast live ‘88 Adapted overstock Overstock: Let there be rock Overstock: Metallica (fantasy insert cover) 2lp Overstock: Nasty boyz |
Original: Damaged justice tour ’89 box Original: Acting like a maniac w/
label Original: Garage days revisited Original: Fucking nuts, vinyl 1 Original: The freak’s not here, both Original: Caught in the act Original: Demonic invocation, vinyl 1 Original: Cee four reissue, vinyl 2 Original: Deathamp Original: Bang a gong Original: Appetite for destruction, vinyl 1 Original: Teutonicus furor, Caught in the act Original: Weed killer and sugar, vinyl 2 Original: Cee four reissue, vinyl 1 Original: Live for all, both Original: Acting like a maniac Original: Weed killer and sugar Original: Old shit, clear vinyl Original: Monsters of rock, both Original: Fucking nuts, vinyl 1 Original: Live for all, vinyl 2 Original: Horsemen of the apocalypse Original: The garage remains the same Original: Metal militia Original: Weed killer and sugar, vinyl 1 Original: Weed killer and sugar, vinyl 2 Original: The hexenhammer, vinyl 1 Original: Fucking nuts, both Original: Calling all destroyers Original: The freak’s not here,
vinyl 2 Original: Evil never die, white vinyl Original:
Le zenith Original:
Whiplash live ‘91 |
For major information about the overstock or the original lp go to The list