CHRONIC SICK – Cutest Band In Hardcore
My buddy SeΓ±or Suarez is unloading quite a doozy here, hopefully to buy little Baby Mordicus a new crib. As with most releases on Mutha, no one really cared about this shit until it was deemed “cool” earlier this decade by the collector illuminati, and even “cooler” in recent years by snotty young HC kids [...]
Vengeance redux
For a record that turns up at best once every year or two, it’s pretty wild that two copies were listed in the same week. And I’d be pissed if I won the first copy, since this current one is in much nicer shape. The previous copy ending this morning at $3,227 and I could [...]
THE FIX – Vengeance
I don’t have too much to say about this record other than it’s one of the greatest and rarest hardcore records of all time, and hopefully someday I’ll actually own a copy. 200 made, rumors of copies being left on a heater and melted, and the rest fell into the vortex via mailorder and touring [...]
ZEP 1 test press
Now here’s something you don’t see every day, an original test press for one of the most monumental records of all time. I’m not much of a Led Zep fan, but I’ll give some collector respect where it’s due when it comes to an off-the-chart items like this. The seller is one of the top [...]
DV8 7″
To be honest, I had never heard of this record until the B-side, “Guns On The Right”, was booted as the opening track on the great KBD-styled No One Left To Blame LP back in 2001. The A-side, “Learn To Say Goodbye”, teeters somewhere between Clash-esque reggae influenced punk and off kilter post punk. Still [...]
THOUGHT CRIMINALS – Hilton Bomber 7″
Mr. B. Murphy sent this to me earlier and was like “WTF is this thing?” to which I replied, “One of the rarest Australian punk singles.” So, I guess it deserves a post here… This is probably THE most legendary Aussie punk record [though, IMO, not the best, and also IMO, not even the best [...]
THE NOTHING – Uniformz 7″
A couple of years ago at the WFMU record fair in NYC, I was flipping through a dealer’s 45 box before the show started. Nothing too exciting, but I did manage to pull a very nice copy of The Features’ Floozie Of The Neighborhood 45 out for $75 and an EPMD Strictly Business 45 for [...]
Chung King Vol.2
If you’ve been collecting records for more than 5 minutes you probably know that all of the good records reside in Japan, and this is no exception. And this time the seller remembered to put JUDGE in the title. Can’t wait till this dude drops the NY Crew or Together test presses shown at the [...]
NECROS – Sex Drive 7″ orig
Another big-money rarity hits the ebay machine. I always thought this record sucked, but since there are only 100 pressed and its Touch & Go #1, it’s been a top collector scum item since the mid 80s. This one’s cool because it has the rejected sleeve as well as the regular sleeve, and includes the [...]
BAD BRAINS – Pay to Cum w/ sleeve
Nice looking copy of this classic platter, which has gotten exponentially more expensive over the past couple of years. I’m sure the seller has received a bevvy of amateur hour questions regarding the authenticity of the sleeve (granted, his scans kind of suck), but you can tell it’s a real copy by the fact that [...]
THE FINGERS – Isolation 7″
Not much to look at in the picture, but this is basically the rarest and most valuable American punk record (aside from the black vinyl Misfits Horror Biz, but that’s just a variation so who cares.) Supposedly 100 made, only about 10 copies still known to exist, with this copy being the first one to [...]