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Dig the new breed

By cooch | Published 04/26/2011

Kind of a weird one here from gernblandsten — og book, og cover, og labels, with newly dubbed tape. The bin price seems high, but hey… “Never Ending Game” is worth pretty much any price you can pay.

It’s time to dust off your sony walkman, nthensome is coming at us with a few GIANT lots of cassettes. Plenty of great hardcore classics (Verbal Assault Trial cassette for one …). Punk and some metal cassettes too. Go ahead and dig through the list. It’s pretty deep. Some good lots here.

For Your Tape Deck

By b. murphy | Published 02/16/2011

One of the best things I did this winter was fully setting up my stereo. It’s been years since I had a solid working tape deck. After I traded in my last car, my daily demo session was out the window. My previous home set up didn’t allow much room for the side by side tape deck. But now I’m back. And I’ve been going big. If I was smart, I’d add these two tapes from jake4sox to that collection. Can’t go wrong with Title Fight or Stick Together. Anyone got emps of that Title Fight tape? Might be nice for the ipod when I’m driving around town. Speaking of ipods, jake4sox is selling a quite a few of them. And for that matter, quite a few verizon blackberries too. Weird.

Cassette Noize – Metallica Edition

By Josh | Published 01/12/2011

talbe1019 has a bunch of cassettes that look like they could have come out of my collection circa 1991 and its making me feel a little nostalgic!

I remember when I got my cassette versions of the Whiplash single, the Jump in the Fire single and the Creeping Death single. The Whiplash one was always my favorite because it was the ‘rarest’, but Creeping Death is definitly one of the (if the thee) best Metallica album covers out there! The B-sides on this one are the well known covers of Diamond Heads ‘Am I Evil’ and the song ‘Blitzkrieg’ by the band Blitzkrieg. Both of these songs ended up on the first reissue of the Kill Em All LP.

I also remember being so into cassingles back in the day. If it was a band I was super into, Like Metallica, I would break off the 2 prongs in a cassette case and put the cassingle sleeve in the plastic case to ‘protect it’. The Eye of the Beholder single is great because the Metallica cover of Breadfan is awesome! It wasnt until years later that I tracked down the original by Budgie and I’m pretty sure I wouldnt have liked it back then, but today I’m proud to say I am a Budgie fan!

One is a song that at this point I think is really overrated. I didnt even like it that much back in the day. I was one of the dooshbags that thougt Metallica was ‘selling out’ by being on Mtv and that the song was to slow. Little did I know what was to come with the Black Album! Anyway, the B-side to this one is their cover of ‘The Prince’ originally by Diamond Head. Not as good as Breadfan, but not bad!

was Leatherface an alt-rocker or a metalhead?

By Josh | Published 10/29/2010

Whats your flavor of choice… we got a cassette copy of the soundtrack to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre part II. It was ubber campy and had a bunch of one-liners courtesy of Choptop (Bill Moseley), but it had a pretty rockin alternative soundtrack fueled by the likes of Concrete Blonde, The Cramps & Stewart Copland.

If that doesnt get your (chainsaw) engine runnin than maybe this cassette copy of the TCM III soundtrack will. Texas Chainsaw III, actually titled Leatherface, was still not as real and gritty as the original, but it took out a lot of the comedy that they stuck into part II. Its also the film that brought us the tag line “The Saw Is Family” which I proudly have tattooed in a saw blade around my right ankle. The soundtrack to part III was a bonanza of late 80′s metal with Laaz rockit & Death Angel leading the charge!

Get Loaded and Fuck

By cooch | Published 10/26/2010

Two of my favorite Poison Idea collectibles… the band released these themselves around ’89, and I believe there are only 200 or 250 made of each.

The Plastic Bomb/We Got The Beat cassingle has the insanely raging alternate version of Plastic Bomb that didn’t make it to the Feel The Darkness LP, I always wondered why they chose to include the lesser version on the LP. The cassette was then bootlegged on a 7″ by some unscrupulous Euros and then the band retaliated with the Official Bootleg double 7″ (which included the tape and two extra tracks).

Get Loaded and Fuck is a band-released version of the Ian Mackaye 12″, which includes 3/4 of the Filthkick 7″ plus the two songs from the Getting The Fear 12″ and one unreleased song (Burned For The Last Time). Contrary to the auction write-up, I’m pretty sure this tape came out after Filthkick (but before Ian Mackaye). Essential listening and an essential piece for a complete PI collection.

Columbus Day Songs that Tickle Your Funny Bone

By Josh | Published 10/11/2010

I’ve been trying to make themed posts when a holiday comes up, but man for Columnus Day it was slim pickings!

I know its not all that interesting of a holiday, but I get the day off from work and I will be at Autumnfest in Woonsocket, RI eating shitty food and watching lots of white trash so I was happy to find this item from cherylok so I could post it in honor of the day!

It looks like this is an educational book & cassette. It came from a library that cleared out all their cassettes and now you have a chance to buy it. Its a 16 song tape from 1983 along with a book of the music so that a music teacher could play along I guess. Maybe they used it to teach the recorder back in the day. Man I hated playing that thing. I broke my finger in grammer school and the best part was that I couldnt play the recorder anymore!

Demonstrate My Demo!

By Josh | Published 09/14/2010

I have been collecting music for over 30 years now. I still have the first record that I ever got (Kiss Alive II) along with about 800 other pieces of vinyl, close to 1400 CDs and a box full of cassettes that I’ve been holding on to. All that being said I haven’t had a stereo set up since I moved into my current residence over 5 years ago. I’ve bought stuff and listened to CDs in my car and stuff on my computer & iPod, but thats about it.

Well the dark ages ended last weekend when I finally got a stereo all hooked up again! I have my old Technics 1200, an old JVC duel tape deck, a Sony 5 disc CD changer and a used Yamaha receiver (courtesty of Analog Underground on Broadway in Providence!). I listened to a bunch of stuff over the last few days but finally having a full set up again I started browsing demo tapes and I present you with my findings. Some are legit old demos, at least one (the Nausea tape) is not OG, but they all got some good tunes on em!