Wanna See My JUDAS PRIEST ‘Painkiller / The Sharpest Cuts’ Cassette? It’s Really Cool…
JUDAS PRIEST – That’s it at the top! That’s my Judas Priest Painkiller / The Sharpest Cuts cassette! It’s still sealed in its original plastic wrap too. This is a 9 song greatest hits. This title was released back in 1990, via Columbia.
I haven’t opened this cassette to play it for I already have all these songs on CD’s. This very cool Judas Priest cassette I discovered at a thrift store last Winter. I paid a whopping 50 cents (U.S.) for this cassette. 50 cents!
Here is what the back of this Judas Priest cassette looks like:
On the back cassette sleeve is the track listing. A bunch of type (so tiny I cannot read it) is on the right side. With that said, there is this red type in the center that reads: Demonstration Not For Sale. Whoa! I always love it when I stumble upon a vinyl album, CD or cassette that was distributed as a promotional copy only. Usually these “demonstration” copies are not that abundant in the open marketplace.
I’ve searched around the worldwide web, discovering that this particular Judas Priest promo cassette has been offered for sale. In other words, the few occurrences when I found this cassette, it was no longer available. Whoa! I’m leaning towards this promo cassette being kinda rare.
Here is what the spine of this cassette looks like:
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JUDAS PRIEST Painkiller / The Sharpest Cuts – Track Listing:
Painkiller
Exciter
Better By You Better Than Me
Victim Of Changes
Hell Bent For Leather
Breaking The Law
Living After Midnight
Electric Eye
You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
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* For more info on JUDAS PRIEST, click on the links below!
http://www.youtube.com/JudasPriest
LONG LIVE JUDAS PRIEST.
Stone.
Metal Odyssey > Heavy Metal Music Blog 
August 27, 2012 at 6:26 am
wow – rarity! A bit of a career spanner too, with Victim of Changes being on there, dating back to their second album (if its the original version). Did I tell you I first saw Priest in ’74 as a support act to Budgie in my hometown of Derby? They’d just released Rocka-Rolla and Rob Halford not only had hair, it was long! 🙂 I remember walking out of the gig with friends saying ‘that support band’s gonna be big’…..
August 27, 2012 at 9:12 am
That is a fun story Kev! That’s Metal history 101. \m/
I probably will crack this cassette open now, just to make sure Victim of Changes is the original version. I would lean towards that it is…
I haven’t gone looking around for Metal stuff at thrift stores or flea markets all Summer… I need to get back in the Metal groove with it! LOL! \m/\m/
August 27, 2012 at 1:51 pm
That is really cool. Funny how outdated tapes look these days.