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Purgatory · Maiden Japan

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

Purgatory · Maiden Japan, 1990.

1Copies
1Countries
1Confirmed
0Likely
0Still up in the air
Collection worth DKK 282

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-11-07. 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 plotted7 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have3 more versions pressed under Europe, 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 17 still out there
wanted →owned →

18 of the 18 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
310 UK IRN 3, IRN 31, IRN 32, 79 3979 1 1,936 278 0.1 5 of 5

The least-owned of them all

These are the five least owned of the five vinyl pressings of this record from 1990 and 1991. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Colombia 456000003 12", 45 RPM, Compilation, Limited Edition 37 owners, 107 want it
  2. UK none Compilation, Picture Disc, Promo, Unofficial Release 100 owners, 129 want it
  3. Italy 2-52 7939781, 52 7939791, 52 7939801 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Limited Edition 206 owners, 113 want it
  4. Europe 198-7 93978 1, 198-7 93979 1, 198-7 93980 1 12", 45 RPM, Compilation, Limited Edition 939 owners, 189 want it
  5. UK IRN 3, IRN 31, IRN 32, 79 3979 1 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Limited Edition 1,936 owners, 278 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.