May 17th Newsletter
1
Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
10AM-7PM

FILTERS

Filter by

Filter by

Filter by

  • 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
  • Sleaford Mods – Sleaford Mods
    Sleaford Mods – Sleaford Mods
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The EP was recorded in Spring 2018 in Nottingham, and features five new tracks including lead track “Stick in a Five & Go”. Jason Williamson says about the new songs […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Franciska ‎– Tryghed
    Franciska ‎– Tryghed
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    Tryghed is the debut album from Franciska, the alias of the now Copenhagen-based artist Jonas Torstensson. As one of the key figures in the young, vivid scene around the Forlaget […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese – GGA
    John Wiese – GGA
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Released on Cali De Witt’s Teenage Teardrops label. 2 length side pieces from 2011 Wiese. Stereo mix of a 4 channel install. Label: Teenage Teardrops – TD-037 Format: Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – Gao Rap (Hip Hop From Northern Mali)
    V/A – Gao Rap (Hip Hop From Northern Mali)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Blissed out electronic Hip Hop from the Sahara. Gao’s hyper localized genre reinterprets Western Hip Hop into a sounds unlike anything else in the world. Autotune, melodic synth, and [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • RIP Hayman – Dreams of India & China
    RIP Hayman – Dreams of India & China
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Captain Rip Hayman is a traveller: on the seas, across the lands, and in the realm of music. He has been around the world 51 times to date. Like the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Black Pus – Primordial Pus
    Black Pus – Primordial Pus
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Little surprise that Black Pus should have a scuzzed-out, hyperactive, and extreme sound in general; it’d be surprising to expect anything less from Brian Chippendale of Lightning [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Laureate ‎– Eurekaphilia (Silver Vinyl)
    Laureate ‎– Eurekaphilia (Silver Vinyl)
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    ” After three sold-out and sought-after cassette-only releases, Hospital Productions presents Eurekaphilia, the first full-length LP from Laureate, one of the most unique producers in [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Leonard Cohen – Songs From A Room
    Leonard Cohen – Songs From A Room
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Like a bird on the wire/Like a drunk in a midnight choir/I have tried in my way to be free” Label: Columbia – CS 9767 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Secret Boyfriend – Memory Care Unit
    Secret Boyfriend – Memory Care Unit
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A new long-form offering of poignant, isolationist machine music from Secret Boyfriend. Eschewing the cryptic and compact song-sketches that characterised his 2013 Blackest Ever Black LP, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kozmetika – Kozmetika (Atlantide Reissue)
    Kozmetika – Kozmetika (Atlantide Reissue)
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Yugoslavia had a rich and colorful scene for rock and pop back from the ’60s to the ’80s. By 1983, at the peak of new wave and electronic rock, even […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joni Mitchell – Blue
    Joni Mitchell – Blue
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell’s songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Timeghost ‎– Cellular
    Timeghost ‎– Cellular
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Truly modern electronic music by way of synthesizers and found sounds, spoken texts and irradiated thoughts. Everything clicks and whirs into place as if by unseen hands.” Label: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Skin Graft – Wet Engines
    Skin Graft – Wet Engines
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Originally released on cassette in 2010, the LP version has been completely remixed and remastered, with new tracks.” Label: Compulsion Rites – 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kate Bush – Kate Bush
    Kate Bush – Kate Bush
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Mini-LP originally released for the North American market featuring standards such as Sat In Your Lap and Suspended In Gaffa alongside a live version of James And The Cold Gun […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Romance / Black Sand Desert / The Cherry Point – Split
    Romance / Black Sand Desert / The Cherry Point – Split
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Single Sided split between three titans of early 2000s noise at their peak. Label: Troniks – TRO-214 Format: Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2006 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Horoscope – Nature Will Keep Growing Even After You Have Lost Everything
    Horoscope – Nature Will Keep Growing Even After You Have Lost Everything
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Nature Will Keep Growing Even After You Have Lost Everything is HOROSCOPE’s tenth release. It is easy to glamorize a sort of faux authenticity through negativity. When curating your [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sex Pistols ‎– Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols ‎– Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “While mostly accurate, dismissing Never Mind the Bollocks as merely a series of loud, ragged midtempo rockers with a harsh, grating vocalist and not much melody would be a terrible […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Methuselah ‎– Matthew, Mark, Luke And John (Sealed)
    Methuselah ‎– Matthew, Mark, Luke And John (Sealed)
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “There’s no true gospel to be gleaned from Methuselah, just lots of familiar Bible references and name-drops, but Les Nicol’s lead guitar cuts through any nonsense, ripping out [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Confuse – Old God Meet New God (Fan Club Reissue)
    Confuse – Old God Meet New God (Fan Club Reissue)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Contains the Indignation Demo and Live At Green Village Label: Absolute Power – JAPAN FOUR Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release Country: Europe Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • O/H – Market Values
    O/H – Market Values
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Industrial techno beasts Dave Foster (Huren) and Richard Oddie (Orphx) double down on their O/H project with a 2nd set of ramrods delivered on their L.I.E.S. debut. They ain’t messing […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Neil Young ‎– On The Beach
    Neil Young ‎– On The Beach
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Following the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called Tonight’s the Night and went on the road drunkenly playing its […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends ‎– Hands Of Jack The Ripper
    Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends ‎– Hands Of Jack The Ripper
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Proto shock-rock featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Moon & other UK psych and hard rock luminaries Label: Cotillion – SD 9049 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1972 VG/VG+. Vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Augustus Pablo ‎– Rockers Story (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Augustus Pablo ‎– Rockers Story (check condition, plays w/noise)
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Augustus Pablo was rightly praised as a master of dub and as a pioneer of the use of the melodica in reggae, but it could be argued that the most […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Bo Hansson – Magician’s Hat
    Bo Hansson – Magician’s Hat
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Bo Hansson’s follow up to his Lord Of The Rings album, featuring jazzy influences. Label: Charisma – FC 6062 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1973 VG+/VG. Sawcut. Old store [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Leather Nun ‎– Force Of Habit
    The Leather Nun ‎– Force Of Habit
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Compilation featuring tracks from their Wire Records era. Label: I.R.S. Records – IRS-42053 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Drillhole and edgewear to sleeve

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Shredded Nerve – In The Shadow Of What Never Was
    Shredded Nerve – In The Shadow Of What Never Was
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In The Shadow of What Never Was is the first full length record by Justin Lakes aka Shredded Nerve. Written and recorded throughout 2014 in a frenzied state during a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tuning Circuits – No Compassion (2016 Reissue)
    Tuning Circuits – No Compassion (2016 Reissue)
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Recorded live at home April/May 1990. No mixing or editing afterwards, no samples, no stereo, no dolby. Play this analog dancecore very loud!!!!” Label: Totally Freaked Out Power [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • N’draman Blintch – Cikamele’ (2013 Reissue)
    N’draman Blintch – Cikamele’ (2013 Reissue)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Tired of reading the words ‘classic’, ‘masterpiece’, ‘missing link’, ‘cult’, ‘seminal’ in every press release? Just trust us on this one: this is the real deal. We have no choice […]

    GENRE: African
  • Agitation Free – Malesch (1978 French Reissue)
    Agitation Free – Malesch (1978 French Reissue)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The debut album by Agitation Free followed a somewhat different path than your average Krautrock band, veering unexpectedly toward the Middle East, specifically Egypt, in search of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alice Coltrane ‎– Transfiguration
    Alice Coltrane ‎– Transfiguration
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Alice Coltrane never had an easy time of it with critics. That she was able to pursue her rugged musical vision in the midst of controversy (many claimed she was […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Etta James – Etta James Sings Funk (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Etta James – Etta James Sings Funk (check condition, plays w/noise)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Etta James’ eighth studio album, featuring a variety of classic soul covers. Label: Cadet – LPS-832 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1970 G+/VG+. Noticeable light marks and [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Guitar Roberts ‎– In Pittsburgh
    Guitar Roberts ‎– In Pittsburgh
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This gig features guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors playing “Trouble in Mind” twice with a couple of wondrously creative “Preludes” in between, creating a suite of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Russian Tsarlag – Gagged In Boonesville
    Russian Tsarlag – Gagged In Boonesville
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Highest recommendation for those who need a true ~*dream pop*~ album “Providence, RI scrapyard songbird Russian Tsarlag aka Carlos Gonzales needs no introduction – he’s been trucking his [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Lornen Connors – Airs
    Lornen Connors – Airs
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Over the 23 years since Loren Connors’ Airs was first published, it has drawn a thick circle of fans. Gently recorded to cassette tape in 1999, (with wonderfully subtle multi-tracking), [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Joe Pass – Virtuoso
    Joe Pass – Virtuoso
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “When Joe Pass recorded and released this first of his Virtuoso series of albums, he was 44 years old, and ready to reclaim his crown as king of jazz guitar […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • 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