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  • Poison Girls – Chappaquiddick Bridge (1980 UK, w/flexi)
    Poison Girls – Chappaquiddick Bridge (1980 UK, w/flexi)
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    ““Chappaquiddick Bridge, the band’s first full length, was originally released on Crass Records in 1980 and featured the same lineup as Hex. And like Hex, it shared the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gauze – Binbō yusuri no rizumu ni notte
    Gauze – Binbō yusuri no rizumu ni notte
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    Label: Prank – PRANK 100 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Album Country: US Released: 2008 Media Condition: VG+ Jacket Condition: VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Discharge ‎– Never Again (1984 UK)
    Discharge ‎– Never Again (1984 UK)
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    Label: Clay Records – CLAY LP 12 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold Country: UK Released: 1984 Media Condition: VG Jacket Condition: VG

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Discharge ‎– Grave New World
    Discharge ‎– Grave New World
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    Label: Profile Records – PRO-1221, Rock Hotel Records – PRO-1221 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1986 Media Condition: VG+ Jacket Condition: VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Discharge ‎– Why
    Discharge ‎– Why
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    Label: Clay Records – PLATE 2, Clay Records – PLATE TWO Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, EP, Lyntone Pressing Country: UK Released: Apr 1981 Media Condition: VG Jacket Condition:VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    Sham 69 ‎– The Game
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    Sham 69’s last & most underrated album Label: Polydor – POLD 5033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
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    “One of the seminal anarcho-punk albums, includes the bonus tracks from the Mirror Breaks 7” and a previously unheard version of Stay.” Label: Overground Records – OVER 122LP Format: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    Pussy Galore – Right Now!
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    “Making their intentions clear with the indescribably manic garage stomper “Pig Sweat,” which kicks off this 1987 album, Pussy Galore proceeds to mash it up dumpster style with [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A  ‎– Son Of Oi !
    V/A ‎– Son Of Oi !
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    5th in the series of classic Oi compilation albums Label: Syndicate Records – synLP3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Large corner crease on upper left corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Killdozer – Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
    Killdozer – Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
    $43.00 | , , Add to cart

    “So very perfectly American: a title that could have come from one of Frank Zappa’s albums, a cover photo with references to Elvis and Brainerd, MN, and a concluding remake […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
    Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
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    An early EP from the chaotic punk band. Label: Vice Squad – VS-106ESP Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 1979 VG/VG

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bhopal Stiffs – E.P.A.
    Bhopal Stiffs – E.P.A.
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    Hardcore from Chicago, circa 1980’s. Label: Roadkill Records – RDK-002 Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP, Green Center Labels Country: US Released: 1988 VG+/VG. Some fraying along the spine [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Carry On Oi!!
    Carry On Oi!!
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    Oi comp featuring tracks from Blitz and The Business Label: Secret Records – SEC 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1981 VG/VG. Some light marks. Sleeve shows some […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
    The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
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    ” Recorded with the first stable line-up after numerous changes, fronted by legendary vocalist Panther (who stepped in after the original singer Gary Hodges’ defection), this is violent, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Propaganda – Russia Bombs Finland
    V/A – Propaganda – Russia Bombs Finland
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    Finnish hardcore comp featuring Bastards and Nato Label: Propaganda – PRO-005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Sampler. Country: Finland Released: 1982 VG/VG+. Some noticeable light marks. General light [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Freeze – Rabid Reaction
    The Freeze – Rabid Reaction
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    “Thought by many to be the quintessential full-length by The Freeze, 1986’s “Rabid Reaction” is ten tracks that clock in at around 25 minutes. The Freeze were an integral [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
    Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
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    The NYC hardcore band’s hard-hitting debut album Label: Brain Eater – EATER 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1983 VG+/VG. Sleeve shows some noticeable edgwear and corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Crude – Attitude
    Crude – Attitude
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    Reissue of their 4th album from 2000 Label: Feral Ward – YAN-0012-056-2009 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2009 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Morbid Opera – Collection
    Morbid Opera – Collection
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    “Finally, after years of work, the Morbid Opera discography LP!! Painstakingly compiled by Jeff Hodapp (ex-Roach Motel & spouse of Morbid Opera vocalist) and Vinyl Rites, here is all [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • SS-20 – Merry Christmas 1986: Is Santa Listening
    SS-20 – Merry Christmas 1986: Is Santa Listening
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    Cincinnati punk in its holiday best. Label: No Pretense Records – JRC 86043A Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG+. Paste on santa has fallen off but is still […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Charged G.B.H* ‎– Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys…
    Charged G.B.H* ‎– Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys…
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    Compiles the Leather, Bristles, Studs & Acne 12″, the No Survivors 7″ and the Sick Boy 7″ Label: Roadrunner Records – RR 9935 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Lip Cream – Early Years Gig
    Lip Cream – Early Years Gig
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    Live recording of Lip Cream from 1984. Label: Dynamite Records – DON DON SU・89 LP Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 2013 VG+/VG+ with light wear.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
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    The Damned embrace goth & art-rock leanings on their fourth album Label: Chiswick Records – CWK 3015 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heavy Times – Jacker
    Heavy Times – Jacker
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    Released in 2011 on Hozac Records

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
    Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
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    Garage-punk led by Mac Blackout

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Rayon Beach – This Looks Serious
    Rayon Beach – This Looks Serious
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    “The swirling cloud of deranged noise emanating from the highly radioactive inner core of RAYON BEACH has once again reared its head up, bucking wildly and shattering the iridescent thunder [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
    Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
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    “Like a snotty bottle rocket shot out of The Damned’s dressing room and straight into the gut of Cheap Trick, suburban Chicago’s sorely under appreciated teen punk pioneers, EPICYCLE, were [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Gross Pointe – Bad Seed
    Gross Pointe – Bad Seed
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    “What’s this, yet another ravaging Chicago punk band bursting out onto a 7” EP for the first time? Gross Pointe are another perfect example of how good this town has […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Brown Spiders – It’s Something To Do
    Brown Spiders – It’s Something To Do
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    “Brown Spiders sound like a band that’s about to vibrate apart. The bass is distorted as hell, and the drums are forever pounding and pushing everyone else forward. The title […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heavy Times – Black Sunglasses
    Heavy Times – Black Sunglasses
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    ” It’s been too long since you’ve felt the damp, leathery slap of Heavy Times across the small of your back, and it’s about time, isn’t it? We’re proud to […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Shrapnelles – Asscalibur
    The Shrapnelles – Asscalibur
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    “This gang of women raised by wolves from the great northern province of Alberta, Canada have effortlessly pulled themselves up through the cracks of the “girlbandghetto” trappings and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tortured Tongues – Let Me Down
    Tortured Tongues – Let Me Down
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    “It’s bad times all year ’round in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the castrated legions that makeup the by-product known as TORTURED TONGUES reside. The tar-like muck that [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • 14th Wish – 14th Wish / I Gotta Get Rid Of You
    14th Wish – 14th Wish / I Gotta Get Rid Of You
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    ““I’m not living my life so good, tell me, how about you?” What can we really say about 14th Wish, how did this band even exist? This record and band […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • True Believers – Accept It!
    True Believers – Accept It!
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    “MIKE REP and TOMMY JAY are two of the Midwest’s most unheralded 70s songwriters who are only just beginning to get their due in the underground circles thanks to reissues […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Screaming Urge – BUY LP + 7″
    Screaming Urge – BUY LP + 7″
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Screaming Urge. Archetypal American Punk Rock. Emerge now as the best underground music you never heard created in their own NOWHERE, their own nu-topic derangement fantasized and realized [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Baby Grande – Baby Grande
    Baby Grande – Baby Grande
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    “Unreleased proto-punk / glam rock album, recorded 1975-77 in Canberra, Australia, featuring Steve Kilbey and Peter Koppes, who would later found THE CHURCH. Available for the first time [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Dents – 1979/80
    The Dents – 1979/80
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    “If Cincinnati quintet the Dents had done what so many other early U.S. punk/new wave bands were able to do in their day, wax just one limited-press seven-inch single before […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Brides – Suburban Vermin
    The Brides – Suburban Vermin
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “We’re finally here! The long-awaited LP comp from “Chicago’s Best Band of the 1990s” is in the pipe and on the way. Featuring the legendary previously unreleased 8-song 1997 demo […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk
    Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk
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    Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state’s devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Deef – Nou
    Deef – Nou
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    Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Deef – Real Control
    Deef – Real Control
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    Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
    Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken​-​Ichi
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    Die Öwan’s final cassette release, 1983’s Mikawa Ken-Ichi, shows the band at their most focused, crafting a full on album’s worth of music in their trademark style of DIY experimental […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Deef – Real Control 1982-1983
    Deef – Real Control 1982-1983
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    A more affordable pro-CD option containing both of the Deef LPs released by General Speech on one CD. Still with the full liner notes in both English and Japanese, some […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Puncture – Mucky Pup / You Can’t Rock And Roll
    Puncture – Mucky Pup / You Can’t Rock And Roll
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    Official reissue of the very first single on the revolutionary Small Wonder Records from 1977. Puncture deliver one of the absolute best, and most unique singles from the 77 punk […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Legion Of Parasites* – Undesirable Guests
    The Legion Of Parasites* – Undesirable Guests
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    Long overdue official reissue of one of the most absolutely raging UK hardcore punk records. The first 12″ from 1984 by this cult band took the ferocity, and raw sound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
    Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
    $80.00 | , Add to cart

    After working on this book, on and off for over 30 years, trying to gather and piece together the Crass jigsaw puzzle, it finally became time to say ‘it’s finished’. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    $25.00 | Add to cart

    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
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      Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    $25.00 | Add to cart

    Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
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    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
    Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
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    Deadstock copy with new covers. Glam punk rocker from Cincinnati Ohio circa 1980. Originally released on Shake It!. Rare one to find at all… These were a bit dusty but […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
    Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
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    Killer compilation documenting the British punk scene of 1977, featuring tracks from John Cooper Clarke, The Lurkers & more. Label: Beggars Banquet – BEGA 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
    G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
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    Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in 1978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of EP “Leather, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
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    Czech split cassette from Happy Families. “When I heard the Diptych / Ohnive plamene split tape I felt alive for the first time in a long while. What is going […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    This Is A Preorder

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Rolex – Promo 2022
    Rolex – Promo 2022
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    THEY’RE BACK! Rolex is back with a promo that returns with a vengeance. From an upcoming split LP with my other favorite LA band, Grimly Forming. These are four of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore