Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory
SST 248, released 1989
The final independent Trees album. A very good one. Not quite as good as their previous two efforts, in my opinion, but still very solid. The clear blue version is fairly common (much more common than the black vinyl version, actually). It is on a deep blue, which you will occasionally see listed as purple. It isn't. Well, not really. If you hold it up to light, it looks somewhat purple. It's still more blue than purple, though. The black one is harder to find. A while back, someone wrote to me to inform me that there was, in fact, a purple version on the market, and that it was a purple marble copy. It turns out that this is true, and I eventually found a copy. This is by far the rarest version of Buzz Factory. The purple marble sales data below may be a bit skewed because some of the sales may have been blue copies sold as purple.
| Version | Value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| SST 248 Clear Blue-Purple | 25-35 | 3 | Stable |
| SST 248 Purple Marble | 40-50 | 8 | Stable |
| SST 248 Black | 25-35 | 4 | Stable |
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| Test Pressing | Black vinyl, Rainbo Records labels, "# 248" stamped on the labels |
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| Credits | Andy F.: First informed me of the purple marble version. |
Recent Sales Data: Purple Marble Vinyl:
| Year Sold | Quantity | Median Price ($) | Platform |
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| 2017 | 4 | 43 | Discogs |
| 2016 | 5 | 40 | Discogs, eBay |
This page was last updated on January 16, 2018.
