Earlier this year, I started to really get back some love for hardcore. Not that I ever lost it, but the last few years I just found myself more excited to listen to other things... but the tide started to shift back to hardcore back in January when I discovered and started obsessing over Disembodied... and then I was pushed even further when picked up a record from Thought Crusade. I was struck by how much I'd missed that level of energy and aggression and I needed more.
Buying that record release version of Thought Crusade's It's Our War highlighted how close I was to completing the collection for the band. All that I was missing was a couple of test pressings, and while I don't typically chase those for a full collection, the tests for Thought Crusade seemed like they might be easy enough to pick up. I'd already managed to get one of the tests for the Common Man 7 inch, so I had hope... and when I started digging around on Discogs, it came together too easily to pass up.
The Common Man 7 inch has two different test pressings... the accepted test that I picked up few years ago, and the rejected test which has the wrong matrix etched in the deadwax.
The other test that I picked up to complete the collection was the It's Our War 7 inch that was released on Triple B. Nice touch with the green with black streaks colored vinyl test, but no special cover here... just the printed text on the dust sleeve. Numbered out of four made, and for $10 I was happy to grab this.
Felt good to finish this Thought Crusade collection and was a nice reminder of how fun the game used to be before labels started to flood the market with an endless stream of reissues.
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