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Yeesh, it’s been a while so here’s a whole stack of misfits rarities. In bullet (haha!) form:

• Bullet 7″ red vinyl w/ Better Dead On Red sleeve
• Halloween 7″ w/ insert
• 3 Hits From Hell 7″ 1st press w/ red label
• Walk Among Us lp w/ pink sleeve on Ruby/Slash (1st press)
• Die Die My Darling 12″ purple vinyl
• Evil Live 12″ w/ OG sleeve
• Wolf’s Blood 12″ w/ full-color sleeve
• Static Age lp purple vinyl
• Collection II lp clear vinyl
• Samhain - November Coming Fire lp orange vinyl

More or less… that adds up to a couple (a few) grand. Even though I feel Misfits collectors take part in creating and overhyping stupid things like pressing errors, and trivial variations, these are all pretty cool variations of these records to own, and there’s no denying Misfits records are awesome, and have a cool common aesthetic. I think I’ll be kicking myself for the rest of my life over a few of the deals I’ve passed up on some of this stuff, but I can’t take it to heart too much because of the ammount of time and money it would cost to track down all this stuff. I actually have to say, I’m sort of shocked that Caroline doesn’t keep reissuing this stuff in new collectible variants. I’m sure all the members of the group still need the money it would net, and I just can’t really fathom that it’s out of some “respect for the fans”. Also - is there a worse sounding live record than Evil Live? Oh wait here it is! (FROM THE SAME SELLER).

Seriously though, shouldn’t there be some kind of definitive Misfits Re-Re-Re-Issue series on vinyl and CD. I’m not even sure how it could be done, the original singles have been chopped up and re-mixed onto the Collection lps, the Static Age, 12 Hits From Hell, and other such things. Maybe keep the Static Age disc as is, get a definitive issue of 12 Hits (if you mix Bobby Steele off this record I’m coming for you Glenn Danzig!), some kind of Collections Redux that removes the tracks from the Earth A.D. session, but adds stuff like the original Cough Cool and Night Of The Living Dead tracks, as well as other session outtakes like Who Killed Marilyn and Spook City. It hurts my head to think about, and it’s clearly more thought than probably even the songwriting here took, but at some point it has to happen. They’re a classic American Rock (Punk) band with one of the messiest back catalogs of all time.