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Live After Death

I've got ten pressings of this record, from five countries. Every one's been read off the copy itself: eight pinned down and two likely.

Have a look How each was pinned down

Ten copies on my shelf

Live After Death, 1985.

10Copies
5Countries
8Confirmed
2Likely
0Still up in the air

6 Vinyl · 2 CD · 2 Cassette

Collection worth DKK 3,422

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-10-01. Nine priced against the release it was pinned to; one never sold, counted at the lowest asking price. Two of the figures are single recorded sales rather than medians, because those releases have 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.

10 pressings

Five countries, one shelf

4 countries plotted4 copies from Europe, which name a region rather than a place32 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have9 more versions pressed under UK & Europe, Worldwide, Australasia, USA & Canada and UK, Europe & Japan, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf either2 more versions pressed somewhere the master's own listing names no single country for: Australia & New ZealandA 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.

8 held 298 still out there
wanted →owned →

306 of the 306 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
245 Argentina 18425 81 2404265 21 83 4.0 76 of 109
246 Argentina 18426 81 2404275 21 83 4.0 76 of 109
214 Japan EMS-67180-81 48 269 5.6 34 of 88
244 Canada SBBA 12441 225 72 0.3 50 of 88
207 Japan EMS-67180 81 561 489 0.9 60 of 88
215 Brazil 31C 164 240426\7 1,080 269 0.2 69 of 88
229 Europe 7243 4 96921 0 7 2,919 189 0.1 104 of 104
313 Europe 7243 4 96921 0 7 2,919 189 0.1 104 of 104
216 Europe 1C 2LP 162 24 0426 3 3,302 498 0.2 84 of 88
324 Europe 1C 2LP 162 24 0426 3 6,134 580 0.1 85 of 88

The least-owned of them all

These are the six least owned of the 119 CD, cassette and vinyl pressings of this record from 1985 and 1986. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Peru IE.02.0001 0 owners, 19 want it
  2. Peru IE.02.0001 1 owner, 17 want it
  3. Portugal 2404265, 2404264, 2404274 1 owner, 12 want it
  4. Mexico 603-0002 CS-4 1 owner, 8 want it
  5. UK none Promo 1 owner, 2 want it
  6. Barbados SWBB 1244 2 owners, 194 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.