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Best Of The Beast

I've got one pressing of this record, from one country. It's been read off the copy itself, and it's pinned down.

Have a look How each was pinned down

One copy on my shelf

Best Of The Beast, 1996.

1Copies
1Countries
1Confirmed
0Likely
0Still up in the air
Collection worth DKK 3,015

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-09-23. One priced against the release it was pinned to.

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.

1 pressings

One country, one shelf

1 country plotted24 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have14 more versions pressed under Europe, UK & Europe and Australasia, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf eitherA 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.

1 held 102 still out there
wanted →owned →

103 of the 103 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
169 UK EMDX 1097 1,694 1,098 0.6 4 of 4

The least-owned of them all

These are the two least owned of the two vinyl pressings of this record from 1996 and 1997. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. US EMDX 1097 Compilation, Limited Edition 118 owners, 447 want it
  2. UK EMDX 1097, 7243 8 53185 1 1 Compilation 1,694 owners, 1,098 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.