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Wasted Years · Stranger In A Strange Land

I've got three pressings of this record, from one country. Every one's been read off the copy itself: three likely.

Three copies on my shelf

Wasted Years · Stranger In A Strange Land, 1990.

3Copies
1Countries
0Confirmed
3Likely
0Still up in the air
Collection worth DKK 854

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-10-25. Three 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.

3 pressings

One country, one shelf

1 country plotted5 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have1 more version 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 14 still out there
wanted →owned →

15 of the 15 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
290 UK IRN 8, 79 3998 1, IRN 81, IRN 82 1,854 231 0.1 4 of 4
291 UK IRN 8, 79 3998 1, IRN 81, IRN 82 1,854 231 0.1 4 of 4
302 UK IRN 8, 79 3998 1, IRN 81, IRN 82 1,854 231 0.1 4 of 4

The least-owned of them all

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

  1. Italy 2-52 7939981 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation 286 owners, 106 want it
  2. Europe 198-7 93998 1 12", 45 RPM, Compilation, Misprint 523 owners, 144 want it
  3. UK IRN 8, 79 3998 1, IRN 81, IRN 82 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Limited Edition 1,854 owners, 231 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.