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brodies is selling a bunch of cool stuff, but this is the definite gem of his auctions.

The Absentee Concept formed in California in 1978 playing a songs that perfectly fit the time period between late 70′s punk and early 80′s hardcore. In 1981 they shortened their name to the Absentees and pressed just a little over 100 copies of their tryin to mess with me 7″. The band broke up in 1983 and were lost in obscurity until about 10 years later when one of their songs showed up on the Killed By Death volume 7 comp. The band kind of got back together played some shows and Artifix Records put out a CD discography compiling 37 tracks from 1979 to 2000.

If you have some money to spend and your looking for some rare early US punk/hardcore then this is for you!!

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