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Bloodstains

By jb | Published 06/23/2011

pterosonus is still selling off one hell of a collection. Bloodstains is the one agent orange track that everyone can agree is a ripper. So catchy so good. There are still a couple days left on this auction(as well as all the other ones) so I expect them all to go well out of my price range. I need to stop being lazy and ebay off the stack of shit I have ib my apartment thats been sitting waiting to go on ebay for months and months now

RIP to Mark W whomever you are

Can’t Stand The Midwest

By cooch | Published 02/17/2011

Back in the mid 90s, a long running underground music writer decided to comp together all of his regional favorites from the USA in the form of the Bloodstains Across… bootleg series. Following Texas and California volumes, was my personal favorite, the Midwest. Seller deathtothesickoids gives us a nice little dose of these Midwest classics, with the first two records here actually being the lead-off tracks on the Bloodstains comp. Even if you don’t want to drop serious cash on the originals, I highly suggest picking up the comp, which should be easily found. Is there really a better song about aliens invading Milwaukee than “Taking The City By Storm”?

Death on the other hand, have only come into the spotlight in the past few years. This 7″ is pretty awesome, but the media hype over their recently released lost LP was a bit much for me. Cool record? Yes. Monumental release in the history of punk? Not quite. They have a new record coming out soon of more old found material, but from what I heard it’s not that hot. We’ll see…

1. Dow Jones & The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 7″

2. The Haskels – Taking The City By Storm 7″

3. Death – Politicians In My Eyes 7″

THOUGHT CRIMINALS – Hilton Bomber 7″

By cooch | Published 06/09/2010

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 Thought Criminals record (I like the follow-up better)], and definitely the top priced. One of those classic cases of extreme rarity due to copies being thrown into the crowd at gigs, copies being trashed by various acquaintances, etc etc. One thing going for this copy in particular is that it’s EXTREMELY clean—typically these look like someone peeled out on them with a moped*, but still sell for big dollars. The grand irony of it all is that the record has a song titled “I Won’t Pay For Punk Records”.

Check it out here, and then sit back and grab a soda and some popcorn as the bloodbath unfolds and this one hits Chung King territory.