Aug 30, 2011 The Stryder - It's Not That Easy Being Green

This is going to be a quick one. Some how, some way, that Stryder - Masquerade in the Key of Crime on green that I needed, suddenly popped up in the Equal Vision store. Mike Dead Broke sent me an email letting me know and I jumped on it. I didn't want to say anything till I got it, cause I wasn't sure if it was the real deal, but I guess it is cause here's some pics.

If you want to pick one up, they still have some here. Makes no sense. Goes for about 30 bucks on ebay. Haven't seen many of them available. If you remember I got the Test Press by some lucky chance....hmmmm now that I think about it, it's an interesting coincidence that a couple tests became available, and now there's this rare green version in the store. Off to check the Matrix...hold please...ok we're good. False alarm. It's the real deal. WHHHEEEWWWWW. Thought I got frogged...errrr..snaked.

P.s. I have a new blog I've been writing articles for called Alternative Medicine. Links are on the side. Thanks

Aug 23, 2011 No End in Sight

My buddy and fellow vinyl blogger Marcus, has rebooted his label Endless Quest Records and just released the Hope Defeated demo on 7". Hope Defeated, if you didn't know already is Doug We WIll Bury You's band. I feel like I'm involved in a blogspot circle jerk right now, but it feels real good, so I'm just gonna roll with it. The first time I listened to Hope Defeated, I immediately thought of Biohazard, but not like straight outta brooklyn lyrics, more like a post-hardcore biohazard. I probably just insulted Doug pretty bad, but in my defense, to me sounding like Biohazard is money. RULE NUMBA ONE!

If you want to pick this baby up, head over to the Endless Quest Store. I think he might have a few of the red /50 versions left. If you want to hear what Hope Defeated sounds like, check out this post from Marcus. While you do that, I'm going to email him and let him know he can embed the player in the product description.

Aug 20, 2011 Capital - Shippers Receivers

Got the new Capital album in the other day. It's been out for a while, but Underground Communique hadn't released it on vinyl till now. When this album first came out I was a little ehh about it. But after a few listens it started to grow on me. Now it's my favorite of the 3. I've posted their Bandcamp player below if you want to check it out. One thing though, BC has a weird issue with their embedded players. Sometimes they're extremely finicky. You might have to play with it a little to get it working correctly. If you can't get it working, just click download and you'll be able to get the album for free.

Look at me embedding buggy bandcamp players and linking to storenvy. Let's check out the record….

Justin went with baby blue and clear blue. Obviously it goes well with the cover, but I'm surprised he didn't mix it up with a grey marble instead of the clear blue. Maybe he's thinking of a second press of clear grey and grey marble. Not sure on how many he pressed though, maybe a second pressing isn't possible. Capital is not a touring band, so it's tough for them to move a ton of units. Definitely too bad cause they're a great band for sure. I commend UC for putting this record out knowing they don't tour. Lot of labels would never do that.

If you want to read a review check out this one on Alternative Press by Brian Shultz.

One last thing, Justin also included a record from a band called Few and the Proud, which I appreciate of course. Seems like it's a decent record too. Vocals sound like clevo, but the music sounds more like dirty punk hardcore. You can listen to them here

Aug 13, 2011 Hectic Collecting

I didn't really start looking for this version till about 2000....yeah 11 damn years ago. There's only 250 on pink marble, but 2750 on black. I think I have like 3 on black. I only know 2 people with a copy of this on pink. Marcus and my Long Island buddy Dan. What a bitch this has been. The thing came out in 1993! I mean how could it be this difficult to find?

One interesting thing that's going to be very tough to understand is the different variations of that marble. Mine is more like white and red, not really pink.

Something else that I don't think I'll ever know for sure, but it's fun to wonder about is, I think the receiver on the cover of the 7" was the receiver my parents owned and I grew up listening to. It's been gone for more than 20 years though. Anyone know the model of this thing?

Got a lot of things going on right now. Not just LP and The Old LP. I'll be sure to do a post on here once everything is up and running. Thanks!

EDIT: in looking at these pictures I took, the record does seem pink. No idea why. In reality though, the record is mostly white and red. I guess my iPhone 4 doesn't really have the capability to capture the exact color of the record.