Sublime (2) – Sublime

My pressing sounded pretty good, no complaints here. Gave a solid cleaning before first play. ✌️🌴

I just received what may have been the last retail copy of this album (unless they go back to press). I bought it and now it's off of Newbury's site. The album is quite nice, better sounding than I expected. The white was pure all the way through. It also came with two illustrated sleeves, rather than just plain old white. I always keep the records in a MOFI sleeve, but it's nice that the stock ones are unique. The fidelity is very good on the album. Nice bass with actual definition in the bass. Decent imaging but strong presence and clarity throughout. Considering the low budget investment, likely, of the original tapes, the vinyl sounds good. I'm happy with it.

Seem shady to anyone else that this was pressed in 2014 and as of January 2017 there are STILL copies for sale on Newberry's website? Calling BS on the "limited to 1500 pressed" claim

I check and played through my copy. First there was thin plastic strips inside the sleeve and still attached to disc 1. There was a small mark on side a but it played without skipping. Disc 1 was not completely white and there was definitely some other color vinyl left while processing the disc giving it a marbled effect to a small portion. This does not affect play back. Disc 2 there was a tiny bit of plastic in the sleeve and the vinyl is completely white. I also have the 2008 version and the quality of the recordings are (at least to my ears) identical. It was a little expensive at just under $50 at a local Newbury Comics but I took a chance primarily because I wanted a copy of Sublime's three albums on some type of colored vinyl with descent quality recordings. I did read on other sites that there were quality control failures with these. This is not the only vinyl pressed this year and last that will have issues. It seems I lucked out by getting a very good copy with very minimal issues.

Just to note, a good portion of this pressing was bad - I purchased 3 copies and they all skipped. Its unfortunate because it would be a great record to have, especially on white vinyl. If you bought a copy, I would check it - some people could go months or years without knowing the quality of their copy.