yea really wuld of liked the silver lining on vinyl ... for my complete soul asylum collection ... but i guess it is complete since it doesnt exsist i say

Not looking at the vinyl for sound lyrics or packaging. It sounds amazing.

I'm coming out of my shoes!

I think there are probably several reasons why a record wasn't issued for The Silver Lining:

1. There was not a huge demand 6 years ago for records when The Silver Lining came out. Only within the past 2-3 years they have been making a slow comeback.

2. It costs quite a bit to have a record mastered and Sony/Legacy probably didn't think it'd even be worth their time and money to have one mastered (especially for SA who weren't big anymore).

3. Records definitely don't hold as much time as a CD. TSL is almost 52 minutes, the longest of any of their albums (though I doubt they would have included Fearless Leader on there, which would have made it shorter, plus that big gap). The average LP is 20 minutes per side (though the Columbia ones used the 26 minutes per side) due to being longer than 40 minutes. The longer a record is, the more quality gets lost (like a VHS tape, if the tape is recorded at an extended play speed the picture gets more degraded). This was one reason why many older albums were shorter to begin with (or so I read somewhere a while back). I did just come across .

Looking at various sites that specialize in converting CD's to records, it would cost almost $200 just for one copy.

Regardless I wish there was one too, I know I would have bought at least one, already got one for every other album (even Delayed Reaction).

Dave told me once recently that he owns the only vinyl copy of the Silver Lining. Perhaps if there is enough demand, they could press some more as a special release. If there's one, then they can make more! Maybe colored vinyl......marbled colored vinyl. Oohhhh! I like this idea! I need to complete my set!

true true vinyl shuldnt be that much most of the punk bands i listen too like screecing weasel and the queers for example been putting out their albums on vinyl along as well on cds for like 20 years now and they never been on major labels so god knows they dont have money....i think its up to the major labels if they decide to or not if it wuld be worth it money wise or not for them...idk who knows but i wuld like some silver lining vinyl but dont see it happening. { by the way if anybody cares interpunk.com sells alot a vinyl for punk bands good stuff}