silent hill fans are not happy with konami after the company released a rare vinyl record only for the publishers storefront to tell them it had to be purchased in batches of five despite being limited to just 500 copies printed on january 25 konami announced that it was releasing the official silent hill 2 soundtrack on rustcolored vinyl in collaboration with record manufacturer mondo like a lot of highprofile vinyl releases this record was limited to just 500 units so fans were eager to try and get their hands on this elusive collectible the only problem is the record apparently sold out in minutes if not a single minute although this is pretty normal for rare variants and limited pressings many fans reported that the konami website was only allowing people to purchase the record if they bought five of the thing which obviously makes the 500 unit count a lot more stressfulshortly after the record went on sale konami tweeted to clarify that we sold out of all 500 units prior to the bugs that some customers are reporting the publisher also stressed that there are no scalpers allowed here the good news is that konami has already announced its planning to restock this item and bring it to you in an orderly fashion in other words konami claims prospective buyers were only asked to purchase five copies of the record due to a bug that popped up after it was already sold out the whole situation did seem too strange and publicly proscalper to be true though it wouldnt have been the first time an online storefront mistakenly swapped a products minimum and maximum purchasable quantities whatever the cause hopefully the next silent hill vinyl sale goes more smoothly despite konamis tweet about there being no scalpers this clearly isnt completely true as the exact same record can already be found on ebay selling for upwards of 180 thats a markup of at least 130 fans are understandably frustrated about the way the record was sold as evidenced not only by twitter discussions but also the rvinylreleases subreddit the silent hill 2 vinyl situation makes me a bit apprehensive about the release of the upcoming gamesi hope they dont balls that up as badly as they did with thisi also hope this was a case of a poor marketing team and not a sign of the same old konamijanuary 25 2023see morei have never seen anyone even ticketmaster bungle a preorder as bad as konami just did with the sh2 soundtrack vinyl repressjanuary 25 2023see moretake a look at our best silent hill games list to find out if your favourite made the cut