Tags Matching: Black Flag

How exactly do you recruit an army?

By Melillo | Published 02/02/2012

Well if someone tries to shoot the president to impress you, you have an army. Hence, JFA. badelectricity is selling this record on Blue Vinyl. The record looks like it is incredible condition, rarely played and still has shrink wrap.

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Slip a few more color reissues in

By mcs | Published 01/12/2012

About 4 years ago or so I started collecting color vinyl Black Flag records. Part of the initial fun was trying to figure out which records existed on what colors. One by one I started picking them off. It reached a point where I thought I only had about three more to get. And then all of a sudden, a couple of weeks back, SST seemed to start cranking out some more color pressings. So far I have seen three colors of ‘In My Head’ and two colors of ‘Loose Nut’. And then a few minutes ago I was on eBay and stumbled across wearearecordstore selling another one. Fuck. Where is this going to end?

Black Flag Color Reissues

By mcs | Published 12/29/2011

We all know that the Black Flag color vinyl LPs are reissues. Most of them were made in the early 90s, and as such most respectable (i.e. old) Black Flag fans & collectors aren’t interested. Dudes want first pressings. I can understand that. But at the same time, I myself collect the color records. I just think they’re more interesting. It’s also kinda fun given that there is no official record of what records were made on what colors. Here’s a couple of examples…

First up, sunra2000818 is offering ‘My War’ on blue with a $120 BIN. Seems kinda high, but it HAS sold for more in the past believe it or not. I got one of these from a friend a couple of years ago. Interestingly, he got it from Interpunk in the early 00s. This leads me to believe that this particular color was made in the early 00s. I mean, Interpunk didn’t exist in the early 90s so it can’t be left over from then. Also, this one has a barcode on the sleeve, whereas the red vinyl version does not, meaning that red is an earlier pressing. However, despite this one being more recent, it seems harder to find than the red, and I would not be surprised at all if someone picked this up for the required BIN price.

Next up, wearearecordstore brings us a copy of ‘In My Head’ on brown. This one comes with a BIN of $24.95. Seems like good value… until you realise that this has just been pressed a few weeks ago and SST are still selling them in their store for only $9.

By the way, I have a couple of spare color Flag records for sale or trade if anyone’s interested… ‘My War’ on red and ‘Who’s got the 10.5?’ on purple. And I need ‘In My Head’ on pink if anyone can help?

SOA – No Policy E.P. – 1st Press/Green Vinyl/No Black Flag Bars

By Justin O | Published 12/26/2011

Me and Cooch were chatting it up the other day via AIM and we were talking about the recent comment debacle over the value of a 2nd press SOA – No Policy EP. Through a slew of comments, one of our readers offered the seller at a record fair 150 for the copy of the SOA record. That same exact copy of the record went on ebay and fetched about 350. Since then a clean test press of the No Policy EP popped up that fetched around 675 bucks (I thought it was going to go for more). I’m going to say that the price of this 1st press No Policy EP brought to you by 33eyez will be hitting closer to the price of the test press than the 2nd press, but maybe not as far off from the ending price of the test press as you would think.

Let’s get real, real gone

By cooch | Published 12/14/2011

I’m not much of an autograph hound, but this copy of Nervous Breakdown from vintagevinyl kinda cracks me up with Ginn’s “GETTIN REAL REAL GONE” inscription.

The jury’s out on whether or not these red cover copies are the second press as typically documented, or if they’re actually a 3rd or 4th version of the record. Read more here.

BLACK FLAG – Nervous Breakdown weirdo cover

By Dave | Published 12/12/2011

straightray just keeps coming up with them. This time theres a little bonus involved. Obviously the record is awesome, but the little add on is the prize in this auction. A test print cover with Nervous Breakdown on one side and the Minutemen on the other. You Black Flag collectors out there will probably freak out over this one. I know if it was a Misfits cover like this i would be all over it. Tough to tell what something like this is worth but thats what ebay is for i suppose.

That band Rollins was in before Black Flag

By Dave | Published 11/10/2011

This one from trout2323 has about a day and a half left and is still at a respectable 1997 price. Not a bad deal for Dischord #2.
Its a bummer they never did an LP because I think this record is better than anything he did in his next band. For the record i also think Black Flags output pre-Rollins is better than the SOA 7″.

Black Flag Pink Flag

By Emil | Published 09/21/2011

Hey now, I don’t think I’ve seen this before. I know SST re-presses their stuff on color vinyl once in a while, but I think the more common ‘Damaged’ was white? Anyway, here’s a sweet, sweet looking pink copy of Damaged that looks like a strawberry lollipop. Mmmm. Into it.

shockme321 says this is limited to 150, it’s even written on the shrinkwarp…

As a bonus here’s a sweet video of Hank vs. some weak hipster witches:

Black Flag – Louie Louie (Poshboy)

By Emil | Published 08/08/2011

Until very recently I discounted this Flag single as one of the duds, a gimmick, the one to skip. But after I started appreciating later BF material more and more, I gave this another listen and I now think that this is actually a pretty cool record. Now I know “Damaged I” was re-recorded with Henry later on “Damaged”, and I have had “The First Four Years” LP with this single on it since forever, but there is something else about appreciating and collecting this on it’s own, the way it first appeared.

Even though it’s from 1981 with Dez singing, I think it foreshadows the later, post 1983 Flag. The slow to midpaced, trainwreck sound. Which I think I began appreciating more as I grew to like bands like Deadguy and Kiss It Goodbye as well as reading and listening to Henry’s books and spoken word. Yeah, I am a Hank supporter. Naysayers will get brushed off. Anyway, I have the original Posh Boy version of this and a recent press on color vinyl as well. If someone has the 10″ version on color for sale, holler @ me.

peggedlegsrecords has this Poshboy og here that he says is mint (which means that it’s probably a decent VG or VG+) for a BIN of $15, which is what I paid for mine too. Besides the labels, in case you are wondering the back covers are also different on the Poshboy and SST versions.

Black Flag Purple Damage

By mcs | Published 08/06/2011

I was discussing SST color vinyl with Dave the other day, and he was very much of the opinion that if a record wasn’t around when the band were together, it doesn’t count. Given that the SST color vinyl appeared in the early 90s, he wouldn’t be remotely interested in hard-to-forget‘s
purple vinyl copy of ‘Damaged’… which you may be able to score for a bargain price given that it’s coming out of Italy.

I used to hate the SST color vinyl reissues in the mid 90s, but now I love them. We all know they aren’t first press originals or anything, but still, there are probably only 500-1000 of each version out there (excluding those horrible 10″s) which makes them kinda rare compared the numbers of black vinyl records that SST must have shifted. I’d probably be bidding on this myself if I didn’t already have it.

Black Flag – Damaged on Unicorn BIN

By Emil | Published 08/01/2011

Whoa, euclidnola has a’Damaged’ on Unicorn for a BIN of $19.99? Looks like it! I guess it doesn’t have the ‘anti-parent’ sticket but still, yo. Someone jump on this. Remember in “Freaks and Geeks” where in one episode the dude ‘goes punk’ and it’s supposed to be 1982 or whatever, and he buys a ‘Damaged’ LP and anyone in the know can clearly see it’s a re-press? LOL.

Test Press Thursday Weeds It Out.

By morgado | Published 07/14/2011

Seller friedchickenhead has two things up for auction right now: lots of baseball cards, and a Black Flag “Process of Weeding Out” test press, from the collection of Spot:

This record is from SST engineer Spot’s personal collection. I bought it off the guy who bought most of the collection when he sold it off, unfortunately this is the only test i go and i hate myself for it. Writting came from Spot but im not sure who exactly wrote it.

Whichever member of the Flag crew drew the bars on there, this is still an awesome pick up, and an awesome way to kick off Test Press Thursday.

Vintage Noizes, Both Flyer And Pin.

By morgado | Published 07/08/2011

Seller tru-mystik brings us a plethora of vintage pins and flyers as a start to our Friday. Some are awesome, some are just ok, but they’re all cool. Check out his other auctions for more, particularly in the Dead Kennedys flyer department.

An Interesting and Mixed Lot

By b. murphy | Published 06/29/2011

Here’s s pretty mixed lot from packattack138. It’s a pretty odd one, I think. Given the opening $500 bid and the weird picture, you might be thrown, but digging in, you will find some interesting items.

Misfits collection 2 on clear vinyl (95, ltd to 500 copies)
Misfits 12 hits from hell cd (scrapped project, ltd to 2000)
Black Flag 7inch only sold at licorice pizza (real??)
Descendents Ride The Wild
AFI EP (unlisted in the description, but pictured and listed in the title)

And if you win he’ll throw in

Misfits Static Age Lp on yellow vinyl (from 97, ltd to 1000 copies)

Worth $500? You decide. But lets listen to Ride The Wild by the Descendents while you mull it over. I always forget this first EP exists. 1979. Crazy. The sounds is SOO different from Milo Descendents. Into it.

TV Party/Six Pack 1st Presses.

By morgado | Published 06/24/2011

Good thing I happened to glance at the User Submissions today, or I probably would have let this pair of classics from gardenhosewetter slip right by me… I wonder how many people got into Black Flag from the title tracks off these. I feel like probably a lot.