Alice in Chains We Die Young promotional Vinyl VERY RARE

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 Alice in Chains promotional EP We Die Young

Very Rare
MINT CONDITION

Track listing:
A Side
We Die Young

C Side
It Aint Like That
Killing Yourself

To my knowledge, this album has never been played.  

Information from Wikipedia:
Bill Adams of Ground Control Magazine, reviewing Alice in Chains discography wrote "For anyone who was already paying attention to Alice in Chains by 1990, that the band was signed to a major label (they were the second (after Soundgarden) of the more mainstream “” bands to get signed, actually) likely didn't come as much of a surprise. The band had the chops and a sound that could pass as similar to the metal of the day (well, at least some of the time), and they were at least as good as , , and – who were all getting a lot of attention at the time – so that Alice in Chains would even get a cursory glance from the majors seemed inevitable. Upon signing with , Alice in Chains made it clear that they were willing to play ball on major label, mainstream terms too; for the We Die Young EP, the band selected three songs from their book which most closely resembled the swaggering, crotch-grabbing norm, and played them to the hilt."
A version of the EP exists, however this only includes the title track and features artwork different from the vinyl/cassette version. The EP was a only release issued before the band's first full-length album and has since gone , with copies of the EP now fetching up to 100 dollars on trading sites such as .

"We Die Young" and "It Ain't Like That" were released on the band's debut album, , later that year (1990). A demo version of "We Die Young" was released on (1999), the only song released on the compilation which was not available on . The studio version was included on the compilation albums Music Bank (1999) and (2006). The version of the song "Killing Yourself" is exclusive to this EP; a faster-tempo demo version was later released on Music Bank.

"We Die Young" became a top five track at the time of its release. The was released in 1990 and was directed by , who would later direct the music videos for "", "", and "". The video features the band performing while various people drown in pools of blood. The video is available on the home video releases and . An early music video for the song directed by is also available on Music Bank: The Videos.