You can't judge if a record is rarer than Padadoxx by how many copies of another record are known at collector's hands.
Uh, yes I can. They're 30-year-old private pressings that some collectors have spent years searching for, and yet in every case I mentioned no more than 10 copies have been found. Meanwhile, Peter just told us he alone has had 7 copies of Paradoxx.
Fact: there are more copies of Paradoxx known to still exist than there are copies of the other records. By definition, that makes the other records rarer.
Yes, it is POSSIBLE that a lot more copies of the other albums are out there somewhere. It is also possible someone salvaged a lot of the Paradoxx albums from the pressing plant and they've just been in storage all these years. A lot of copies of Hammer Witch were left at the pressing plant too..... and some of those were sold by the pressing plant and thus eventually made it into circulation.
I do believe the band only took 50 copies from the plant.
I know for a fact that a lot more copies of Paradoxx have turned up over the years compared to those other records I mentioned.
Here is an example, how many record collectors have the RH FACTOR - Cries of the night LP?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3QXHNJ6xVc
Since i discovered it, i am in position to know that only 6 collectors own it.
That does not make it rarer than Paradoxx.
If your numbers are accurate, then yes, it IS rarer than Paradoxx. See explanation above.
You seem to think the pressing size is the ultimate variable. But you must consider how many copies survive today. Let's say only 50 Paradoxxes left the pressing plant, and that 1,000 copies of Liquid Earth were made and left the pressing plant (I don't know the pressing of LE, this is just an example). Today, some 30 years later, only 6-7 copies of LE have been found, but probably 20+ Paradoxxes have been found. Until someone finds more of the LE's, it is the rarer of the two records. I'm not saying it is better musically, and I'm not saying it's more valuable. But
there's no way you can claim the Paradoxx is rarer when there are roughly three times as many copies known to exist.
We can never know for sure how many copies have been destroyed over the years. All we can do is count the minimum number of copies that we know to exist. 'Minimum' since there will inevitably be copies in existence that we are not aware of.
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Only one copy of the 7 was from Andi who got it from Charly's collection and bought it...
