“Just after I stopped beating off about how great the S.O.A. and Minor Threat EPs were, I got hold of this mandatory piece of plastic. Words fail me when I try to sing praises of this label- they’ve put out not one, not two, but four and a half absolutely fucking excellent megasong singles this year, with another Minor Threat EP and a few more gems to cum in the near future. Anyway, this record does nothing to destroy the harDCore tradition with anthems like “Religious Ripoff,” “Fashionite,” “Rock’n'Roll Bullshit,” “Anarchy is Dead” (face facts), “Bored to Death” and “No Rights” thrashing within its grooves. These guys can cram so much song into thirty seconds it’s ridiculous. How much more can I say?”

I favor the Government Issue – Legless Bull E.P. over the Youth Brigade release, but that is not too shed any less light on Number 6 of the early Dischord discography.  Youth Brigade DC is definitely a slower feel to the earlier Dischord releases. Who can deny the reverbed bass intro and the slow hard beating of the drums in the beginning of “Barbed Wire”.  So many classics on both of these releases.

These two records are similar in its pressing because they had an original and only pressing of 1000 records. The other early pressings of the Dischord first six had at least 2000 pressed with different variations between pressings.  Check out these listings, they will definitely be shooting up in price in the last few hours of the auction.

Put on some Jejune and be glad it’s still there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woRIn28oIhI

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Oh, and this? Yeah, just a sealed copy of Best Wishes. Nothing to see here, keep moving. Don’t bid on this. You don’t want it. And if you already own it, you should probably just give it to me.

* enter Bad Mood Morgado to comment for the 50th time that he does not live in Brooklyn… But it’s funny to say he does.

S/T EP. You’ve got to go way back to get this one. Foundation America Records. Not a lot of these floating around.

Unloved And Weeded Out EP. #177. Hot. Seller mentions something about a “color backing.” I’ve never heard this one. Can someone confirm? Tre?

Petitioning The Empty Sky EP. Ferret #3. This one goes back some ways. I can dig it.

Y2K EP on clear vinyl. There were 1000 of these made, and I feel like there was a time where you couldn’t give these away. There are 1000 of these records. That’s a LOT. I recall dudes thinking of cashing in and buying a few to flip. Granted this was 1999 / 2000. The ebay flipping market isn’t what it is today … They usually sold for what they bought them for. BUT NOW, but now, it seems to be a hit. Get into it. 3 cover songs. Vio-lence, Black Sabbath and The Cure. Not bad.

Soundtrack To The Revolution EP on gold vinyl. Now we are talking. Converge, Bound, Knockdown and … Chokehold?? Canada is not Massachusetts, but we’ll let this slide. This gets you a little bit of everything, Massachusetts-wise. Shout outs to Knockdown. If anyone has the Behind The Eightball demo, get at me. I NEED this one. Who wrote that dust sleeve message?

When I moved into Worcester, some of the first kids I hung out with were in a band called Barrit. They all lived at 34 John St. At the time, it was just two floors, the 2nd and 3rd floor. But after a few months, all the Barrit kids moved out of the Acapulco building (now Tortilla Sams) and into the first floor of John St. Those were wild dudes having wild times. But you know what, no one in Barrit even lived there, as I recall. Pete and Zach lived away. Lou lived with his girl down the street, Steve lived across town (which at the time, felt like it was a million miles away). I have no idea where Nate lived … Andy hadn’t joined the band yet, but he didn’t live nearby either. Thing is, everyone was always there. And I mean everyone. The first floor was mayhem. People were in and out of that place at all hours. Most stories aren’t appropriate for the internet –you’ll have to use your imagination. I’ll tell you this, when those dudes moved out, you could see hammer impressions in every wall. And I’m not talking hammer heads, or claw heads. I’m talking about profile shots of hammers. Full impression of claw, head and handle. Intense. Plus, when I was dirt poor, those dudes always had tons of peanut butter. Like jars and jars. Over 5 open ones, for sure. I would go down and steal some. It kept me from starving. I liked that. I ended up seeing Barrit 4 times in my life, but sadly, none of them were the typical ridiculous shows. I didn’t catch the WPI show, which was probably the craziest show. It involved lots of time setting shit up, fucking around and then later, lots of broken stuff. Barrit was famous for that.

Maybe deathwishinc can chime in with a story or two. He lived on the 2nd floor for a few months during this crazy time period (of course, you know it was 1998. Best year ever?). I bet he was at the Worcester gig too. And despite hawks eating panther meat, Tre is a good dude. He probably traded all his Wormtown pride for Witchtown pride, though … Wait, does anyone have Wormtown pride?

corkinhurst has some unbelievable stuff including one that makes my head want to explode!

As far as I could see they were not selling anything as good as these auctions, but it didnt really matter because I had alread spent my money on a Sheer Terror shirt anyway.

Up first is the Bitter Rivals 2007 demo 7″ on Tripple B Records. In this lot you get 1st press clear green vinyl limited to only 100 copies and the 1st press black vinyl limited to 400. Also included is a 2nd press on clear orange limited to 200.

Heres 3 versions of the Six Feet Under Records ‘Hardcore for Hardcore’ 7″. You get the purple vinyl limited to 900, the yellow vinyl limited to 350 and the super limited black at only 150 copies.

Lockin’ Out ‘Raw Life’ LP on gold vinyl limited to 300 and on black vinly limited to 700. This one is funny to me because its exactly the same colors as the Slapshot ‘Digital Warfare’ LP, but in the opposit numbers. B9 did 700 gold and only 300 black for the Slappy record.

Not long after that I found a review for the record up at www.emptyhandspvd.com/2010/05/battle-ruins-7-review.html and the person that wrote it had exactly the same experience with Chris recomending it and he loved it as well.

The moral of this story is that… 1 you should check out the review, 2 you should buy this record. 2, you should shop at Armageddon Shop in Providence, RI (and coming to soon to Harvard Square in Boston)

check out the other auctions from thedurtymick because there are a lot of them!