Enter to win TEST PRESSING of SINK OR SWIM (celebrating TGA's ALT PRESS CVR) is OVER

So I just came across this while visiting the XOXO site. Go to Altpress.com or the link below I've provided to enter the contest (you need to register first). The Grand Prize includes a test pressing of Sink or Swim that would go nicely with your collection.

Link:

http://www.altpress.com/contests/325.htm


Info below and pic above from the XOXO site:



XOXO Records / Alternative Press Contest
XOXO Records and Alternative Press have teamed up and put together a fantastic contest to celebrate the Gaslight Anthem first AP Cover. Here is what you can win:

GRAND PRIZE

1 Gaslight Anthem Sink Or Swim vinyl test pressing
1 Let Me Run Meet Me At The Bottom LP 1st pressing on splatter vinyl (limited edition of 300)

FIRST RUNNER-UP

1 Let Me Run Meet Me At The Bottom LP 1st pressing on red vinyl (limited edition of 700)
1 Beat Strings Fang In Rain CD

SECOND RUNNER-UP

Selections from XOXO Records catalog on CD, including:
The Gaslight Anthem Sink Or Swim
This Charming Man Every Little Secret
Let Me Run Meet Me At The Bottom
Beat Strings Fang In Rain
Beat Strings Love Lust Wonder
Hands Down Eugene Madison
Monument Decades
Crayon Rosary Crayon Rosary

That's a nice first prize...

hmm... I thought there were only 5 copies of the SOS Test Pressing, I know each guy in the band has one copy... and I have the other one..

when they did the third pressing, they had new tests done, so this could be from that batch....

Yeah I thought I read somewhere that there was only 5 copies. I guess XOXO had this copy and agreed to use it as a prize.

Chris Moran (he writes for PunkNews.org) told me that when they did the auction of the TP, he was told there were only 5 copies.

well, I know for a fact there was more tests made for the third pressing. XOXO would have a first press, but I think jason told me he didn't have one. So who knows, I'd say there are more than 5 total, but maybe only five from the first press.

I got a reply from XOXO through email, they said they were not sure on the exact # of test presses but it came direct from hellbent records which they licensed the record to.

So maybe this is a new test press? I wonder how many there'd be now.

yeah, I talked to jason as xoxo ages ago about test presses and he said he didn't have a copy, but that hellbent probably did. I tried getting in touch with that guy for months, but could not make it happen.

So got one more reply, it says that as far as he (she? not too sure who replies for the XOXO mailbox) knows it was only the test pressing.

But like you said there was a second test pressing.

I'm not sure how licensing works exactly, but would hellbent be allowed to do a second test press?

I've not a clue about test pressings, but I signed up especially to enter, so fingers crossed!

Well, like I said earlier, when no idea did the third press, (I think they're kind of doing it since it seems hellbent has disappeared for the most part), I think they started doing them in the states, rather than overseas. So they had the plates or whatever shipped here, new tests done to make sure everything was fine before they did the purple and green. The first test ever on eBay was from that batch. I have no idea how many were made(I've asked), if you really wanna know, get in touch was var at No Idea, but I doubt he'll have an exact number for you either.

Last day to enter, hope it is somebody here on dimesaints who wins it!!!

I hope its me! hah!

well shit....I forgot about this. Did anyone actually mail in an entry? I'm gonna mail one in today as well as enter online, kind of stoked.

I mailed in a few entries...

i wouldnt mind winning this..lol

Anyone have a link for the online entry, I'm too tired to look much harder =/

It was on the first post, hope you managed to enter your name.

Can you still enter? I know the mailed in entries had to be Post Marked by the 27th...

also, any idea when they will announce the winner? it just says prizes must be claimed by the 7th of march

is it bad of me that I had been hoping no one would pay much attention to this thread so that my odds of winning would be greater?

I'm the same, I guess it's closed now. And we just gotta wait on the winner

I would like to think people forgot about this thread to give me more chance of winning, but I'd forgotten myself that I entered this...it must have been quite a while back.

Whoops, too late.

Oh well, I love gaslight and all, but I don't need a test press or anything.