May 17th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Blondie ‎– Heart Of Glass
    Blondie ‎– Heart Of Glass
    $4.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Parallel Lines. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2295 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1979 VG/G+. Noticeable light marks. Sleeve has staining and is taped along [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – Atomic
    Blondie – Atomic
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From the album Eat To The Beat Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2410 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve discoloration/wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Hanging On The Telephone
    Blondie ‎– Hanging On The Telephone
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Parallel Lines. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2271 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some wear and creasing

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – The Tide Is High
    Blondie – The Tide Is High
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Autoamerican Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2465 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Some sleeve creasing and wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Rapture
    Blondie ‎– Rapture
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Autoamerican. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2485 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some wear and creasing.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Call Me
    Blondie ‎– Call Me
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From the American Gigolo soundtrack. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2414 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing/discoloration

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – The Hardest Part (Promo)
    Blondie – The Hardest Part (Promo)
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Eat To The Beat Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2408 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Promo Country: US Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Wear and creasing to sleeve

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Kreskin ‎– The Basic Principles Of Kreskin’s ESP
    Kreskin ‎– The Basic Principles Of Kreskin’s ESP
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Incredible cover on this LP of Kreskin teaching you the basic tenets of ESP. Label: SSS International – LP 100, SSS International – MLP-100 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Country: US […]

    GENRE: Spoken Word
  • Tears For Fears – The Hurting
    Tears For Fears – The Hurting
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    1987 USA pressing with the UK cover art. “The Hurting would have been a daring debut for a pop-oriented band in any era, but it was an unexpected success in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Steely Dan ‎– Can’t Buy A Thrill [1980 pressing]
    Steely Dan ‎– Can’t Buy A Thrill [1980 pressing]
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    1980s reissue of the classic… Label: MCA Records – MCA-37040 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Pinckneyville Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Yutaka – Love Light
    Yutaka – Love Light
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sweet smooth fusion from Yutaka Yokokura. Label: Alfa – AAA-10004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Hot Feet, Hot Stuff! (Wild library funk/disco record)
    Hot Feet, Hot Stuff! (Wild library funk/disco record)
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Some decent alt disco cuts from the Statler studio crew. Le Freak, Boogie Oogie Oogie, etc. Label: Statler Records ‎– SLP 1284 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1979 […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

VINYL

  • Blondie ‎– Heart Of Glass
    Blondie ‎– Heart Of Glass
    $4.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Parallel Lines. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2295 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1979 VG/G+. Noticeable light marks. Sleeve has staining and is taped along [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – Atomic
    Blondie – Atomic
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From the album Eat To The Beat Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2410 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve discoloration/wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Hanging On The Telephone
    Blondie ‎– Hanging On The Telephone
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Parallel Lines. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2271 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some wear and creasing

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – The Tide Is High
    Blondie – The Tide Is High
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Autoamerican Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2465 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Some sleeve creasing and wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Rapture
    Blondie ‎– Rapture
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Autoamerican. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2485 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some wear and creasing.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie ‎– Call Me
    Blondie ‎– Call Me
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From the American Gigolo soundtrack. Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2414 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing/discoloration

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Blondie – The Hardest Part (Promo)
    Blondie – The Hardest Part (Promo)
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    From their album Eat To The Beat Label: Chrysalis – CHS 2408 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Promo Country: US Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Wear and creasing to sleeve

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Kreskin ‎– The Basic Principles Of Kreskin’s ESP
    Kreskin ‎– The Basic Principles Of Kreskin’s ESP
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Incredible cover on this LP of Kreskin teaching you the basic tenets of ESP. Label: SSS International – LP 100, SSS International – MLP-100 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Country: US […]

    GENRE: Spoken Word
  • Tears For Fears – The Hurting
    Tears For Fears – The Hurting
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    1987 USA pressing with the UK cover art. “The Hurting would have been a daring debut for a pop-oriented band in any era, but it was an unexpected success in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Steely Dan ‎– Can’t Buy A Thrill [1980 pressing]
    Steely Dan ‎– Can’t Buy A Thrill [1980 pressing]
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    1980s reissue of the classic… Label: MCA Records – MCA-37040 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Pinckneyville Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Yutaka – Love Light
    Yutaka – Love Light
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sweet smooth fusion from Yutaka Yokokura. Label: Alfa – AAA-10004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Hot Feet, Hot Stuff! (Wild library funk/disco record)
    Hot Feet, Hot Stuff! (Wild library funk/disco record)
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Some decent alt disco cuts from the Statler studio crew. Le Freak, Boogie Oogie Oogie, etc. Label: Statler Records ‎– SLP 1284 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1979 […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

CDs

BOOKS

  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    An introductory handbook/textbook for plastic surgery students. Tons of wild and informative diagrams. The Educational Foundation Of The American Society Of Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeons, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Worlds is set in modern times. It contrasts factory strikes, a businessman’s take-over and terrorist kidnap-pings. Its cast ranges from those who sit in the cabinet to those who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    The Thief’s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet’s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Wah Sash Kah Moqua: Or Thirty-Three Years Among The Indians is a book written by Mary Sagatoo and published in 1897. The book is a memoir of Sagatoo’s life as […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    Ezra Pound – whom T. S. Eliot has called “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time” – here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Revelator
    Ron Silliman – Revelator
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It’s the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Photomediations: A Reader
    Photomediations: A Reader
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Features interviews with Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe, Alice Notley and more. Talisman House, 1994 Softcover edition. Noticeable warp to book. Some discoloration to wraps/edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction