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WHO? was Moet The Poet?

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/03/2012

WHO? was Moet The Poet?
WHAT? else did he record?
WHY? did he disappear?
WHEN? will I find out more about that lad?
WHERE? is he now?

About a month ago I popped the WHO?WHAT? comp on my turntable for the 1st time in maybe 15 years? and listened to it on repeat probably more than 20 times. It’s that good. WHY? did I forget about it for so long? I don’t know. WHAT? I do know is that Moet The Poet track got stuck and kept playing in my head for the whole month and I could NOT turn it off. Don’t know WHY?
I tried to google the lad but hit a brick wall. All I managed to find out was that he played one gig at The Ace on the 8th of October 1983 with Hagar The Womb, Lost Cherees, Vex, Anthrax, The Partisans, Vortex, Omega Tribe and Conflict.
WHAT? a line up!!!
I would gladly donate one of my kidneys to a Christian charity of your choice if you could transport me back in time to the 8th of Oct 1983. Since that isn’t happening anytime soon I am stuck listening to my Increase The Pressure album with B-side recorded at that very gig. I wonder if anyone recorded Moet The Poet that night??

Anyway, hivoltagerecords has WHAT? seems to be the original 1984 pressing of this great comp for sale with a slightly high BIN but it seems to be in a good nick (as long as that price sticker is on the poly bag and not on the cover) and it comes with this big fold out lyric sheet/poster so WHY? not jump on it?

If that’s too rich for your blood bluemoon-half has a still sealed recent repress although something tells me these didn’t come with inserts (I may be wrong on that though)

Inflammable material is planted in my head

By Dobek Ohashi | Published 01/03/2012

1978 wasn’t a very good year for punks in Belfast. It was the time when a number of anti-punk gangs sprung up around the city. One of them called the Friendly Society, formed by members of a Loyalist paramilitary organization, stated that its specific aim was “to do as much damage to as many punks as possible”.
Another one, the Holywood Ulster Defence Association, threatened to attend a Rudi gig at the Strathearn Hotel in 1977 and kill the punks in attendance.

In the midst of all this, on St. Patricks Day in 1978, the Suspect Device single came out. Pioneering what later on became the Dischord Records well known standard they pressed 500 singles and hand-glued covers at home. Contrary to the popular opinion that ALL the covers were hand stamped, my mate Roland, who wrote a very cool book on SLF, says there was a stamped master which they later on colour photocopied.
My copy of the single (that is a confirmed OG looks like it could be a colour photocopy, even though I was always convinced it was an actual stamp). However, if you look at popsike, as our own Dave S. once pointed out, the placement of the stamp slightly differs on few different covers. This could suggest that
a) there were more than 1 masters used to make covers (if they really were colour copied)
or
b) it was heavily bootlegged (which is also highly likely)

Another interesting piece of information about this release is that some of the original hand glued sleeves have the band’s take away orders scribbled inside them. They wrote what they wanted to eat, someone fetched it and then they realised they didn’t have enough sleeves, so used those as well. I’d like to get one of those one day.
There are two copies on eBay right now and as far as I can tell they have been hanging in there for quite some time which is weird because both are very reasonably priced.

Here’s one with an under $200 BIN

and here’s another that works out at around $230 with free postage

Slightly annoying is the fact that both sellers are lazy knobs that didn’t bother to take actual photos of the records they’re selling and used exactly the same stock image they found somewhere on the internet. If I were buying this I would email for the actual photos of the record.

Since most of you are probably skint after Xmas here’s the much cheaper 2nd pressing with proper printed cover and yellow labels

or later repress with red labels (again with lazy stock photo)

or the final pressing on ROUGH TRADE records (with an actual photo of the item so bad that makes you wish it was a stock photo)

US of Oi! BIN

By cooch | Published 12/13/2011

Seller surf80 brings us a nice copy of the classic US of Oi! comp on Link Records, at a pretty decent BIN price. If you’re a NYHC completist, this comp has a weird one-off recording of WarZone’s classic “Don’t Forget The Struggle”, which doesn’t sync with any other recordings I’ve ever heard of this song. If there’s more from this session I’d love to hear it, as I think this version trumps the LP recording. The rest of this comp ain’t too bad either, classic tracks from The Uprise, Anti-Heros, YDL amongst others.

Sunday morning BIN’s

By cooch | Published 11/27/2011

My trade pal Scott aka 23percent has a habit of listing cool records with very reasonable BIN prices, and he just threw up a new batch this morning. Looks like a couple things bit the dust already but there’s still a lot of great stuff and you can’t beat free shipping.

“New Yorks Finest Skinhead Band” BIN

By jb | Published 11/02/2011

I always loved that sticker on the shrink of this record. This copy from reasonwhy76 sadly doesnt have that sticker. Its still a reasonable BIN I think. A little high but if you wanna try to get it in lower you can always bid instead of BIN.

So Ends Adolf’s Night.

By morgado | Published 10/12/2011

We sent this one out earlier as some sort of “quick shot” on Twitter (whatever those are- they just started showing up one day. Must be a Murphy thing), but if you’re a collector this Last Rights Hitler sleeve from chuckecheese667 is definitely worth a longer look. The BIN is about 200 bucks less than what the last one of these we saw ended up at (it was Tre’s, and it ended at around $625), which actually makes this a bargain if you’ve been on the hunt for one. So knowing that, can’t see this staying up much longer.

More Dischord BIN’s

By cooch | Published 08/29/2011

Apparently shermy67 must have realized the extortionate BIN price on this lot was too much, so he broke them down into separate listings. Unfortunately the first press Filler already sold, but you can still buy the Teen Idles and SOA 7″s for relatively high prices ;) .

And Mr. Surf80 has a more moderately (but still kinda high) priced 4th press Filler up, along with some overpriced Misfits singles. Pick your poison.

Soul Search – Intolerable BIN

By b. murphy | Published 08/28/2011

fightoffyourdem0ns5 is reaching. Reaching for the stars. Here’s the lot:

Soul Search-Bury The Blame(Black)/500
Soul Search-Bury The Blame(Clear Red)/300
Soul Search-Bury The Blame(Clear Green)/100
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(California Weekend)/30
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(Black)/400
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(Gold)/100
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(European Release)/30
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(S&F 2010)6/20
Soul Search-Intolerable Weight(White)/100
Soul Search demo cd

I’ll agree that Soul Search has been blowing up lately, but I’m not sure these EPs command this price. It’s not really an intolerable BIN. But that makes for a good pun, no? Thing is, he isn’t sure it’s a good BIN either. He suggests you make an offer. Seems tolerable or reasonable. I mean, we’ve seen some pretty rare tour items sell well lately (like this one and this one). So who knows. Maybe these will be jumping soon. Of course, the clear red is still available. Make sure to buy one from Sam and Soul Search.

Killing The Dream test press BIN for the win

By Tre | Published 08/24/2011

I’ll be honest, I am not really comfortable with using the express “for the win” but I feel at a loss with getting a clever title up there. Oh the stress. Well, adambombx79 has a few test presses up right now, and this one is near and dear to my heart.

We were able to work with Killing The Dream for a number of years, and were able to release 3 LPs from the band before they called it a day a few months back. This was their first release on the late Rival Records – before Kyle had to change it to Rivalry. Awesome record, a fair BIN, and even the chance to make an offer. Go for it.

Dischord BINs

By cooch | Published 08/23/2011

Coupla BIN’s here, a nice-price Teen Idles from ohisamanoheya and a laughably ridiculous lot from shermy67. The single Teen Idles looks like a pretty good buy though so I don’t see it lasting long.

Rev Collection BINs – Chain and Warzone

By Tre | Published 08/17/2011

Though I might feel that becky4500 is asking a little too much for these classic Revelation 7″s doesn’t mean it’s too much for you. I’d probably make an offer first, and try to scoop em for under the asking price.

If you need em, you need em, and there is no harm in sending in a lower offer. Go for it! That’s why the offer button is there.

BIN might be a little high?

By Josh | Published 08/15/2011

jcsmiths is selling rare copy of Sick of it Alls ‘Based on a True Story’. Its one of the black/white swirl/mix vinyl copies and he says its limited to 150 copies. I know a lot of people collect SOIA stuff so 150 is a pretty low number for a cool color vinyl variant, but I think he might be just a little off with his BIN price.

I’m gonna let you check it out and comment back here to let me know what you think. Maybe I’ve been out of the loop to long and this is a good price. Perhaps ‘Based on a True Story’ on colored vinyl is the new Chung King or the next God Save the Queen 7″.

Start Today BIN

By jb | Published 08/07/2011

str8t8 has a nice little BIN for this copy of start today on purple. I expect this to get snatched up real quick

Some Confusion

By b. murphy | Published 08/05/2011

Ok, I’m a little confused. Is $500 the new going rate for a Chain Of Strength Confusion sleeve EP? Seems pretty steep to me. It’s a coveted version, but it seems out there. I mean, I know a AN test press just sold for MORE than that, but still, record prices have me confused. I’m guessing this one from aapjekoala won’t hit that BIN price, and that the market really isn’t that high. We shall see, right?

DIGITAL WARF AIR

By Josh | Published 08/02/2011

In what universe is a yellow vinyl copy of Digital Warfare worth what either of these are priced at!? I LOVE Slapshot much more than most people, but seriously… if this is gonna be the ‘going price’ then I may have to re-evaluate and sell off my Slappy collection!