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For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??

As far as seeing Strato singles available in the States, I've never seen anything earlier than "S.O.S". But maybe some online stores, or eBay?

The City of Mice wrote:For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??

Check e-bay and another this kinda auction sites. By that way I´ve managed to find nearly every of these old singles. Only AMLYA wellow vinyl and WtSR? Japan CDS are still missing right now. They´re existing but it depends if ppl would like to see them...

Try Ebay.....or GEMM.com. Can find some stuff there.
I found most of mine at Ebay though.
I have most things....except for that /%¤¤#(/&%# Kiss Of Judas Single.

I have been collecting some of the rare strato stuff for about 4 years:
As for singles i have

Father Time
WTSR
AMLYA-7"
It's a mystery-7"
Wings Of Tomorrow (vinyl+cd)
and the less rare stuff

I just wanted to note that i haven't bought anything from the internet and also i haven't really been hunting down these items, so my point is that it REALLY depends where you live at, in order to find these items rather easily or not.

Also, can someone give me an estimated price for stuff like the above? Because i see them at ebay selling for very different prices and i'm wondering how much are they really worth(i'm talking about used condition).

ChromeSatch wrote:Also, can someone give me an estimated price for stuff like the above? Because i see them at ebay selling for very different prices and i'm wondering how much are they really worth(i'm talking about used condition).

I´d think 80-100 € for 7'' singles around here. > expensive But on the auction sites the prices really vary much, for example found the original feet cover II-CD in 25 €.

IceBreaker wrote:for example found the original feet cover II-CD in 25 €.

Is the cover that one ?


or



If you had the second one, it's the re-released, not the original one, and it isn't worth that much money!
The original released is impossible to find, or if you do, you can expect to spend at least 1000€ for it

I used to have Future Shock and Black Diamond (or perhaps Kiss Of Judas, I can't remember), but I gave them to a "friend". No comment.

cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

or

That one is still missing from my collection, though it´s the re-release.

cliff wrote:If you had the second one, it's the re-released, not the original one, and it isn't worth that much money!
The original released is impossible to find, or if you do, you can expect to spend at least 1000€ for it

Heh, made then a really good affair...

Well, i have the feet version in vinyl. What's its rarity compared to the cd?
How many "feet" cds or vinyls exist anyway?
One other thing: Is the Fright Night (album) vinyl worth alot? Or maybe not so much?
Thanks, your opinions are very helpful.

IceBreaker wrote:

cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

Ohh, I found that one for 80euros in Wacken, but I did not have the money for it.

ChromeSatch wrote:Well, i have the feet version in vinyl. What's its rarity compared to the cd?
How many "feet" cds or vinyls exist anyway?

I dunno, but suppose the vinyl with feet cover is not so rare than the CD. Like with the Wings of Tomorrow too.

I`ve got this A million lightyears away single

IceBreaker wrote:

cliff wrote: Is the cover that one ?

Of course this. Paid around 25 € about it.

uuuh, that's cheap! I never get a rare piece for such a nice price!
But is it so rare this way? I mean I have seen it more than once on any places.... Others I am still searching

I won't tell for how much did my Finnish friend get the dedicated Episode vinyl...

My only rare strato single is The Kiss of Judas promo (+ of course I have other "famous" singles like S.O.S, HHAL etc.)...
Rare ones are so expensive that I'm maybe not going to buy more of them.

IceBreaker wrote:

The City of Mice wrote:For collection's sake, I'm real interested in getting me hands on rare single CDs such as Future Shock, Black Night, Break The Ice, etc etc... but do they like not exist anymore??!? Or are they still floating around somewhere??

Check e-bay and another this kinda auction sites. By that way I´ve managed to find nearly every of these old singles. Only AMLYA wellow vinyl and WtSR? Japan CDS are still missing right now. They´re existing but it depends if ppl would like to see them...

I guess I saw the WtSR japan, but I don't know if it's a single or what kinda work. anyhow, i need to get the money to buy it.

Just a Vampire wrote: I guess I saw the WtSR japan, but I don't know if it's a single or what kinda work. anyhow, i need to get the money to buy it.

official strato.com wrote: WILL THE SUN RISE?

Released 1996
Another single release prior to Episode-album. This is almost like a 'live' single since all the other songs but one are live-recordings.

Rating: ** Very Difficult to Find

SONG MUSIC LENGTH
WILL THE SUN RISE? Tolkki 5'07"
SPEED OF LIGHT (live) Tolkki 3'03"
WILL THE SUN RISE? (live) Tolkki 5'07"
ETERNITY (live) Tolkki 6'56"
FATHER TIME (live) Tolkki 5'01"
DISTANT SKIES (live) Tolkki 4'10"

^I've got that single I found the Will the Sun rise single at some random used CD store in Tokyo when I was there. That single really kicks ass! It's almost like a mini "episode era" live album!

I ordered the WtSR? single on amazon.de, but after 3 months they told me, that they can't get it. I mean, WTF??!!1!ELEVEN Why do they put it in the list, fi they don't have it at all?!

Beast_Pete wrote:I ordered the WtSR? single on amazon.de, but after 3 months they told me, that they can't get it. I mean, WTF??!!1!ELEVEN Why do they put it in the list, fi they don't have it at all?!

Maybe their list was just out of update.
Namely I had the same situation with one Finnish record-store with the same WtSR?-single too.

You must come to Wacken, so we can buy the WtSR? singel there hand-in-hand. Okay, not hand-in-hand.

Burning Reflection wrote:^I've got that single I found the Will the Sun rise single at some random used CD store in Tokyo when I was there. That single really kicks ass! It's almost like a mini "episode era" live album!

I suppose this single only exist as a japan edition??

It's a very cool and funny piece. I love the sequence when TK says something and TT and JJ plays any parts spontaneously (-exist that word?)

nepi wrote: I suppose this single only exist as a japan edition??

Like Father Time, I think so.

Or Black Diamond and The Kiss of Judas. But hey, they exist in Korea too.

Beast_Pete wrote:Or The Kiss of Judas. But hey, they exist in Korea too.

The Kiss of Judas exists in Europe too as a promo CDS.

(5600+1000)

Hmm. But it's still too rare anyway. And that is, what counts.

Beast_Pete wrote: But it's still too rare anyway. And that is, what counts.

I think here it´s not so rare yet. You can see copies roaming on the auction sites quite often, I can say very well.

Copies? Legal ones?

Beast_Pete wrote:Copies? Legal ones?

Fully official promos.