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A Matter Of Life And Death

I've got twelve pressings of this record, from seven countries. Every one's been read off the copy itself: three pinned down, three likely, one identified at box level only, still sealed and five still sealed, read from the printed outside, where the release itself narrows to one candidate.

Have a look How each was pinned down

Twelve copies on my shelf

A Matter Of Life And Death, 2006.

12Copies
7Countries
3Confirmed
3Likely
0Still up in the air

1 Vinyl · 10 CD · 1 Cassette

Collection worth DKK 1,956

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-10-05. Ten priced against the release it was pinned to; two with no recorded sale on Discogs at all, left out of the total. One of the figures is a single recorded sale rather than a median, because that release has sold once.

The collection

Each tile shows the part of that copy where these pressings actually differ — the label on a record, the shell or the packaging on a cassette or CD — because the sleeve artwork is the same on nearly all of them. Every one links to its own page with the full photographs and evidence.

12 pressings

Seven countries, one shelf

4 countries plotted4 copies from UK & Europe and Europe, which name a region rather than a place1 copy whose catalogue entry names no single country: Europe (unconfirmed)17 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have1 more version pressed under Australasia, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf either1 more version pressed somewhere the master's own listing names no single country for: UK, Europe & USA ring marks one I haven't got

How rare is any of this?

Every other number on this page describes a record I own. These describe the world around it: for each version Discogs lists, how many collectors say they own one and how many are still after it. Real counts, not guesses — but not a pressing run either, and no proof that a record is rare. They count only collectors who log their records online, and those aren't spread evenly across the world. Read it as demand against supply, and trust Want per owner over the raw number of owners.

11 held 89 still out there
wanted →owned →

100 of the 100 versions carry Discogs community counts. Lit dots are ones I have.

The figures, version by version
What is on the shelf, starting with the least owned. Each rank compares a copy only with other versions in the same format.
CopyCatalogue Owners Wanted by Want per owner Scarcity rank
250 Taiwan 00946 372331 22 20 65 3.2 20 of 84
257 Malaysia 0094637321744 27 93 3.4 3 of 4
252 Argentina 0946 3732172 0 27 18 0.7 24 of 84
255 Argentina 0946 3 72331 2 2 54 58 1.1 39 of 84
247 Japan TOCP-66666 91 73 0.8 49 of 84
253 Argentina 0946 3 72331 2 2 164 61 0.4 66 of 84
254 Japan TOCP-66616 278 89 0.3 71 of 84
256 Europe 0190295567606 909 68 0.1 78 of 84
317 Europe 0946 372321 2 5 2,843 162 0.1 82 of 84
260 UK & Europe 0946 3 72321 1 8, 372 3211 4,354 995 0.2 6 of 7
249 UK & Europe 0946 372324 2 2 4,664 180 0.0 84 of 84

One of the twelve copies here has no counts to measure it against, so it is left out.

The least-owned of them all

These are the six least owned of the 61 CD, cassette and vinyl pressings of this record from 2006 and 2007. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Japan TOCP-66666 Promo 1 owner, 20 want it
  2. India none 2 owners, 64 want it
  3. TOCP-66616 Promo, Unofficial Release 2 owners, 42 want it
  4. Russia none Unofficial Release 3 owners, 42 want it
  5. China 6 106031 601255 Unofficial Release 3 owners, 32 want it
  6. Taiwan 0946 3 73217 2 0 7 owners, 50 want it

What the grades mean

One candidate left standing isn't proof. Discogs lists what collectors have catalogued, and nobody's catalogued every pressing ever made, so I can't rule out one that was never listed.

Confirmed
Country and catalogue number match, and so does at least one mark that belongs to this release alone: a barcode, a printer code, a legal-deposit number, a label matrix.
Likely
One candidate matches on country and catalogue number, and nothing else in the photographs was legible enough to check it a second way.
Still up in the air
Two or more editions still fit. Each page names the ones left standing, and the one photograph that would settle it.