Black Sunday: Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley Live (1980) & Metallica Creeping Death/Jump in the Fire (1990)

Vinyl's great for many, many reasons. Not included among these is portability, hence the vast numbers of compact discs and, in recent years, digital files in my collection. Still, when sitting among your music and looking through the library, nothing beats the LP for hands-on satisfaction and art-drenched eye-candy. It's the extreme end of this spectrum that I'm stopping on for this Black Sunday, pulling a couple picture discs from favorites of my youth, both of which serve not only as optical originals but also catalogue rarities as well.

30th Anniversary Blizzard of Ozz/Diary of a Madman Box Set

Sony Legacy announced today that a 30th Anniversary Box Set of Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman would release for shipment no later than May 31, 2011.  This set is pricey (listed at $150!) and contains the following: