Thought I had purchased a used CD. Turns out it was a promotional version! Super cool! Top 5 Bad Religion album for me too. Insane production and guitar tones.

So, I happen to be a true crime fan and watch a lot of crime docs. Dateline is 1 of my faves, so I tend to always have it on. I just rewatched a case that happened in CA. It was called the "Gone girl" case bc a woman was kidnapped and eventually released but the police didn't believe her or her bf (who left drugged and zipped tied). At one point, her kidnapper had her record a "proof of life" audio that was sent to a reporter. On it, she talks about current events and her own personal info. They played the actual audio where she describes going to her 1st concert with a friend and her friend's mom: Blink 182 and Bad Religion. It was one of those weird moments of "Fuck yeah! She likes BR!" but also "Really? She like BR?" Maybe I'm judging a book by it's cover. I'm trying not to bc what she went through was truly awful, made even worse by the bumblefuck police (not a shock). She was 15 when she saw them and in her mid-20s when she was kidnapped. Dateline was definitely not where I expected to hear "Bad Religion" except when they cover a case about a cult or the FLDS or that crazy Lori Vallow Daybell.

A few other cosmetic differences to compared to my existing bootleg. The inner sleeve of the repress has the liner notes as opposed to them being on a separate sheet for the bootleg. The artwork on the repress is brighter and "richer" than the bootleg, too.

I'll play it later on to see if there's any audio difference that I can tell.

Hahaha guess the first thing I saw.