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I’m not going to be the one talking about this record being auctioned off by seller batfuk today. Instead, ex-porn star assisting, 108/Converge merch selling, Fruit Stripe Gum fortune owning, tranny fighting, full time Spring Breaking, and all around legendary legend m0nster_one will be handling this one, in a hopefully recurring segment that those of you who read the B9 board in the late 00′s will probably recognize, despite it’s history and pressing info oriented, less exotic form…

Ladies and gentlemen, storytime with m0nster:

i toured with Fifteen from 1993-1996 and spent a majority of that time living in Northern California with the various members of the band when we weren’t out on the road. i was actually there during the recording of this album in early 1995, assisted with the layout for the inserts and assembled countless copies of the LP when the vinyl arrived. nostalgia aside, this is a really interesting version of the ‘Extra Medium Kickball Star’ LP to see up on eBay for a number of reasons. the first being that this is ‘Rebel Alliance Records’ (Fifteen’s DIY label) only release. the intentions of everyone involved were admirable, but the reality of being a full-time touring band, assembling thousands of records and trying to keep up with mailorders didn’t end up being too practical. second, to the best of my recollection, there were only about 1000 of these pressed. while nobody kept track of how many were sold, i do know that a few hundred of these LP’s got damaged and wound up being used for BB gun target practice in our backyard, so i’d guess there are only about 600-700 of them floating around out there. third, doing the covers for these wound up being a total disaster. in the DIY spirit, we ordered blank LP jackets and made giant rubber stamps that we were going to use to put the design on the cover. no, seriously. we did about 50 of them before realizing that the ink was just sitting on top of the jackets and not drying. we ended up leaving them out in the sun for a few days until the ink finally hardened. it was a horrible mess and the prospect of doing 1000 records this way was not appealing in the least. the 2nd version of the cover involved having an 11″x11″ photocopy of the rubber stamp design made at Kinko’s and us attempting to glue them to the LP jackets. while substantially less messy and time consuming, it was still a failure. the blank LP covers had a coating on them that made it almost impossible for the glue and paper to stick together. once the glue dried, the covers would fall right off. as a last resort, we sent out the jackets to have them printed, which is what you see pictured in this eBay auction. again, no idea on how many of these are out there, but it’s easily below 500 or so. Sub-City re-released this LP a few years later and i’m assuming it is much easier to find. if you’re a die-hard Fifteen/Crimpshrine/Jeff Ott collector, it’d be a solid addition to your collection.

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