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STAINS – Feel Guilty 7″
One of only 2-3 early early punk releases from Maine (what up B Murphy), the Stains released this 4-songer back in 1980 on their own Gutterworst label. I believe the singer was from the UK, and the the tunes have a pretty strong UK punk influence (including Damned and Sex Pistols covers on side B). [...]
The Absentee Concept
brodies is selling a bunch of cool stuff, but this is the definite gem of his auctions. The Absentee Concept formed in California in 1978 playing a songs that perfectly fit the time period between late 70′s punk and early 80′s hardcore. In 1981 they shortened their name to the Absentees and pressed just a [...]
DV8 7″
To be honest, I had never heard of this record until the B-side, “Guns On The Right”, was booted as the opening track on the great KBD-styled No One Left To Blame LP back in 2001. The A-side, “Learn To Say Goodbye”, teeters somewhere between Clash-esque reggae influenced punk and off kilter post punk. Still [...]
HITLER SS/TAMPAX split 7″
My fellow WOPs score big on this legendary split. There aren’t a lot of pre-hardcore era punk records from Italy, but this one is #1 in pretty much everyone’s book. Simple, stupid, snotty, offensive… this one has it all, in heaping doses. Tampax’s liner notes should give you a good idea of how much thought [...]
THOUGHT CRIMINALS – Hilton Bomber 7″
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 [...]
THE NOTHING – Uniformz 7″
A couple of years ago at the WFMU record fair in NYC, I was flipping through a dealer’s 45 box before the show started. Nothing too exciting, but I did manage to pull a very nice copy of The Features’ Floozie Of The Neighborhood 45 out for $75 and an EPMD Strictly Business 45 for [...]
JACKIE SHARK & THE BEACH BUTCHERS 7″
Another once-mighty KBD hyper obscurity brought back down to earth by a small score of dead stock copies… This used to be one of the top KBD rarities, with only a few known copies and no info whatsoever known about band members, band history, band location, etc. There was a slight break in the case [...]
Victims – Annette 7″ – Plan 9
The seller (The Taang! Records Store) has given basicly no information about this record at all yet wants someone to pay $1000 for it. The seller also says that the last one on eBay sold for $800 but there is on on Popsike from July 2009 that sold for only $338. Heres what I know/found [...]
NA 7″ 45 T&G KBD BIN
2nd press of one of the best hardcore records ever! I’m still holding out for a 1st press…. someday!
PAGANS – Street Where Nobody Lives 7″
While everyone else goes gaga for NYC and LA, I’m saying Cleveland has one of the best early American punk repertoires going. Here’s my favorite record of the bunchβthe second Pagans single. While not as inept as their injuriously rare* debut Six and Change, this 7″ and the two that followed are great raw, trashy [...]
THE MAD – Eyeball 7″
Hands down my favorite pre-hardcore record from NYC, and a collector scum want list staple for ages. The chorus of the B-side track, “I hate music/I like noise,” sums upmy musical tastes to a T. The Mad’s multi-media live shows often included singer Screaming Mad George’s early forays into special effects (he later ended up [...]
Chicano punk BIN 2-fer
Couple of classic SoCal Mexi-punkers, both with very reasonable BIN prices considering the are deadstock copies. These probably won’t last long so I’ll keep the descriptions short. The Plugz are probably better remembered for their want-list-staple Mindless Contentment 7″, but Achin’ is no slouch either and has a cool punked up version of “La Bamba” [...]
UNNATURAL AXE – They Saved Hitler’s Brain 7″ (Boston punk vol.4)
OK here’s the second best Boston punk record ever*, I’ve been patiently waiting for a copy of this to come up so I could post about it. This was released back in 1978 in a minuscule pressing of just 500 copies, by the infamous Varulven Records. Hailing from Dorchester, MA, the one thing I always [...]
Scumfucs, Murder Junkies & Southern Baptists
a pair of original GG Allin singles both signed by the madman himself. 1 – GG Allin ‘Live Fast, Die Fast’ 7″ in picture sleeve from Black & Blue Records in 1984. The seller says that he bought the single in 84 and never played it. 2 – GG Allin ‘Public Animal #1′ 7″ in [...]
THE VICTIMS – Television Addict 7″
The official most expensive punk collecting genre to jump into cold turkey = 1970′s Australia. It’s all great, but it’s all REALLY expensive (and rare.) Here’s my personal favorite, The Victims’ Television Addict b/w Flipped Out Over You from 1978. TV Addict sings the woes of a young man who falls victim (no pun intended) [...]
GROUND ZERO s/t 7″ (Boston punk vol.2)
First of two great self-released 7″s by this Boston band, from 1979. They were mining a harder post punk sound but managed to squeeze in one total proto-hardcore ripper (“Nothing”, which was later comped on Killed By Death Vol. 12) on this 4-song platter. Check out “Nothing” here. The sleeves for this record are real [...]
AGENT ORANGE – Bloodstains 7″
A bona fide best-in-genre release, here’s Agent Orange’s classic debut single from 1979. SoCal beach punk doesn’t get much better than this, and if you like punk music in any slightest way, shape or form, you should be familiar with the title track. Though “Bloodstains” also appears on their Living In Darkness 12″, this version [...]
THE EAT – Communist Radio 7″ orig
All time collector scum want list topper from Florida, offered here in VERY nice looking condition. A little more powerpop than straight up punk, but still fits in perfectly in the killed by death world (and was comped on KBD #2, aka the best volume.) For the uninitiated, you can check out both sides here. [...]
SCREAMERS – 7/7/77 12″
Recent bootleg of Screamers studio material, probably the best sounding Screamers boot I’ve ever heard [and there are lots of them (of which 99.9% of them suck bad.)] This LP is allegedly limited to 300,Β allegedly authorized by the band and allegedly sourced from original tapes, though contact with two original members indicates that it [...]
NECROS – Sex Drive 7″ orig
Another big-money rarity hits the ebay machine. I always thought this record sucked, but since there are only 100 pressed and its Touch & Go #1, it’s been a top collector scum item since the mid 80s. This one’s cool because it has the rejected sleeve as well as the regular sleeve, and includes the [...]
