worstest pressing you have ever bought

what is it??

when i was 15 i got the first garbage album (lol) in wacky 6x7" box form and when i got it home and opened it, not one record was flat! absolutely terrible.

when i was still a big dead kennedys fan in the early 80's i bought a copy of in god we trust, inc and it had the b-side on both sides. to this day, i've never heard the a-side with dog bite and kepone factory on it. by the time i saw another copy, i wasn't such a big fan anymore!

^i had an adamski 12" like that, both sides were the b-side!! argh

i've got a couple dozen (recent) records with unacceptable pressing distortion, which drives me crazy. makes me wonder if the labels are actually listening to their test pressings.

i have a copy of Burial's "Untrue" that sounds like shit, lots of hiss on it.

I kept the album in case one day it appreciates in value on account of being a bad pressing.

got a copy of Rafael Toral's LP on Staubgold with the long title, and it was bad. very disappointing.

the widely available vinyl pressing of wu-tang's 'enter the 36 chambers' is terrible

Just about everything released by Columbia in 1984. Some of the worst vinyl quality ever.

actually now that i think about it, the worst sounding 45s i have are all early/mid 80s - dolly mixture's 'everything and more', april showers 'abandon ship' (mainly the b-side) and james 'hymn from a village'. hideously distorted all the way through.

If you don’t count King Island lathe-cuts on clear vinyl, the worst are probably some late-80s Possum Records 12”s – local outfit that licensed dance hits from the UK like Timelords, lots of Rhythm King etc. My copy of the Doomsday Powermix of Def. Con. One by PWEI sounded like a bowl of Rice Bubbles.

Dunno if it's the worstest but my copy of Murderer by Low has really bad surface noise all the way through.

Also I have a Black Dice/Erase Errata split 7" which has lots of ess-ing on the Erase Errata side.

Just about everything released by Columbia in 1984. Some of the worst vinyl quality ever.

for reals - i bought Desire in the mid-80s that was so tinny and ess'ed that it was painful, right from the opening "PiSZZSZStol SZZSZShots rang out...". never even made it to 'Isis' until years later with a 'Nice Price' cassette.

cheapest pressing has to be Black Flag's "Slip It In" - vinyl was so thin you could literally bend it in half.

IDIB distributed a batch of 12s about 18 months ago that were unplayably warped. Had to return 3.

i don't understand how you warp an entire batch of records? maybe it wasn't a warp. they all skipped and not in a surface damage way.

you can warp most of a pressing if you put them in shrinkwrap or plastic while they are still warm, I think that's what happened to Portishead's "3" vinyl.