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Sealed AGE OF QUARREL coming your way

By Dave | Published 12/13/2011

I’ve been in this position before. straightray has a sealed copy of Age Of Quarrel formerly belonging to Duane Some. I too have a sealed copy of Age Of Quarrel from Duane Some (acquired for less than the current bid on this one). Awesome that its sealed, not awesome because I don’t know if its censored or uncensored or even Run DMC labeled. Im not opening it to find out but if you can if you win this one.

Real men don’t eat pollywog stew

By cooch | Published 12/05/2011

On to the B’s from robase…

I have to admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of either of these records. However, I do appreciate their place in the pre-HARD era of NYHC, and I’m happy to own both of these platters. Interestingly, both bands have future members of the Cro-Mags… og Beasties singer John Berry was the first Cro-Mags vocalist, and I never noticed this till today but the Y&TU 7″ features a guest guitar spot by Gabby Abularach, who would later play on Alpha Omega (and is the brother of Marco from the Icemen).

Y&TU vocalist David Scilkin (RIP) would go on to become “trim coordinator” for the Beasties, which basically sounds like the coolest job ever.

Cro-Mags Best Wishes BUY IT NOOOW

By Justin O | Published 11/12/2011

pearlcat428 has a Buy It Now Cro-Mags Best Wishes LP for 25 bucks. This is a great pick-up for that price. I got my copy of this record a few years ago for 30 bucks in store. It seems that Ebay usually blows up prices, so this is a good price. My only word of advice would be to message the seller because they don’t have any feedback. The other auctions that seller pearlcat428 has you can tell he’s legit, but still it’s worth a small message and asking what’s the deal wid it.

Age Of Cash Grabs

By Dave | Published 10/16/2011

I remember hearing about this sketchy ass repress and thinking, hmmm ok remastered, bonus songs, expanded lauout.. this count be pretty cool. Then I got the thing and it was let down city. Poor choice of cover stock making the cover look washed out, the “expanded layout” was like 3 additional photos. And the remastered tracks were just the bootleg cd John Joseph had been selling for a while at shows. That combined with the $20 msrp on it just left a bad taste in my mouth. If you already own the original AOQ then theres no point to getting this, but if you dont then this copy from generationrecords with no bids and starting at $16 is for you.

My 2nd Favorite Cro-Mags record

By Tre | Published 09/19/2011

I know that over the years there’s been this rogue faction of coremen that claim that this is their favorite Cro-Mags record. There’s a word for those dudes. Wrong. That’s really about it. Looks like donmannerism has a sweet copy of this up for sale. Check it. No bids yet, make it happen.

It’s a MAL AL AL AL … FUNCTION

By b. murphy | Published 08/18/2011

Someone showed me this video earlier today. It made me want to ~~cut my head off~~ ~~choke myself out~~ ~~punch my ear drums out~~ ~~scream obscenities until my face turned blue~~ … say things that aren’t nice.

And here’s the thing. It’s got Mags backing. You’d think JJ would want to pass out some Hard Times, but that’s not how he feels. For a few obvious reasons.

From John Joseph (Cro-Mags):
“When I heard that Lavalette covered our song “Malfunction,” I was intrigued. When i heard it, I thought it was brilliant. The video is great and the way they re-did it made it catchy as hell. Great band live too. Mad props!”

From Mike Dijan (guitarist):
“I had just heard a very unique cover of Agnostic Front’s “Society Suckers” done by Walter Schreifels and thought it would be cool for Lavalette to do a hard song and put our own flare on it. The Cro-Mags have been a major musical inspiration in my life, and so it was a blast to do this version of an all-time classic.”

Supporting your boys, Mike Dijan, Larry Susi and Lou Medina is a good thing, but calling this song brilliant? Don’t know about that. It’s different, that’s for sure. Granted, I would probably support the Rebecca Haviland solo record. Sounds like something I could get into, but covering the Cro Mags with auto tuner? Ouch. Don’t get it.

Grab the real deal from silvia119. This one is censored. Just like my language above.

For the Cro-Mags fan who has everything

By cooch | Published 06/23/2011

I can’t tell if luvthatfunctionalart is making these, or if they’re actual vintage items, but I get a pretty good chuckle out of them either way.

I mean really, is any Cro-Mags collection complete without these? I’m contemplating grabbing one to file next to my vintage DRI and SSD picks. If only I had a Rich Bich to shred with these things!