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  • Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
    Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
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    Behind the Pink Curtain takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
    Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
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    Zer0 Books presents a new, omnibus edition of a cult classic: all three volumes of Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy, revised and expanded by the author. Across the three […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
    Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
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    Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • V/A – Rat Music For Rat People
    V/A – Rat Music For Rat People
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    Compilation of live performances from key 80’s hardcore bands such as Dead Kennedys, Flipper & Bad Brains. Label: Go! Records – GO 003 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Damned ‎– Damned Damned Damned (1986 German Reissue)
    The Damned ‎– Damned Damned Damned (1986 German Reissue)
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    “While the Sex Pistols will always have a prominent place in the story of U.K. punk, the Damned did nearly everything first, including the first single, the smoking “New Rose,” [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Saccharine Trust ‎– We Became Snakes
    Saccharine Trust ‎– We Became Snakes
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    “Sharp, tuneful, but retaining the ragged dissonance of their earlier records, We Became Snakes is probably the Saccharine Trust record to own. Produced by Mike Watt, Snakes is the most [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gun Club ‎– The Birth, The Death, The Ghost
    Gun Club ‎– The Birth, The Death, The Ghost
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    “The first of two live Gun Club collections released in 1984, The Birth the Death the Ghost is also the better of the pair; recorded with guitarist Kid Congo Powers, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • False Prophets ‎– False Prophets
    False Prophets ‎– False Prophets
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    Classic NYC 80’s Hardcore. Label: Alternative Tentacles – VIRUS 48 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG. Light marks. Sleeve has some noticeable rubbing/edgewear

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Kreuzen – Gone Away
    Die Kreuzen – Gone Away
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    1989 EP Label: Touch And Go – T&G 040 Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP, Country: US Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. Very light creasing on cover, with insert. Vinyl has light cosmetic marks.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Buzzcocks – A Different Kind Of Tension
    Buzzcocks – A Different Kind Of Tension
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    “The final album of the Buzzcocks’ first phase of existence is the most fragmented of the three, with increasingly ambitious songs fighting for time with tracks that sound much like [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Madness – One Step Beyond…
    Madness – One Step Beyond…
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    “It’s the sheer exuberance of it all that first smacks listeners straight across the head, that and the pure mayhem that careens wildly from the opening shout to the closing […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
    Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
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    Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher’s PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
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    At the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
    Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
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    When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
    Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
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    Catherine Breillat has always told just one story: her own, the story of a young girl whose existence was forbidden, who was, from childhood, cut in half, split between her […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
    Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
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    First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist “warrior” through a study of the fantasies of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
    Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
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    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land’s unique work, variously described as “rabid [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David Peel & Death ‎– King Of Punk
    David Peel & Death ‎– King Of Punk
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    “‘King of Punk’ is the 1978 LP (out now on HoZac Archival) from counter culture icon David Peel.David Peel is a true original, an enigma as tough, bombastic, and incendiary […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore
  • The Rip Offs ‎– Got A Record
    The Rip Offs ‎– Got A Record
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    90’s Garage-punk, ala The Mummies & Radio Birdman Label: Rip Off Records – RIP OFF 006 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Red labels Country: US Released: 1994 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones ‎– Road To Ruin
    Ramones ‎– Road To Ruin
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    “When the Ramones started work on their fourth album, Road to Ruin, in early 1978, they were in something of a bind. Their previous three albums had helped spark the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
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    “When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
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    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    Simon Critchley – Mysticism
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    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
    Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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    Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
    Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
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    Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
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    With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
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    The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
    Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
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    Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
    Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
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    In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
    Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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    In his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
    Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
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    With mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
    Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
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    In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
    Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Founded in New York City in the mid-1960s by self-educated ghetto kid and painter Ben Morea, the Black Mask group melded the ideas and inspiration of Dada and the Surrealists, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
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    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic– our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
    Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
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    Scott Bukatman’s Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional “subject” and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
    Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
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    First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
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    Like a roar, or a belch, in the face of late-stage capitalism Cincinnati’s Primitive Impulse comes blasting through your speakers with thirteen tracks of head-pounding drums, face-shredding [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Manikins – From Broadway To Blazes
    Manikins – From Broadway To Blazes
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    From the same scene that begat the Scientists and the Victims came Perth, Australia’s The Manikins. Founded by Neil Fernandes — a former member of the legendary Cheap Nasties with [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Dow Jones And The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981
    Dow Jones And The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981
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    Dow Jones and the Industrials created roaring art-punk that collided with the confusion and celebration of technology. Their left field approach turned gnarled guitar riffs into unshakable [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Lovedolls Superstar
    V/A – Lovedolls Superstar
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    “Clearly half of this soundtrack LP stars the LOVEDOLLS, who seem to mainly to do the vocal tracks (sounding like the RUNAWAYS), and backed by the likes of REDD KROSS, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Inmates – Dirty Water
    The Inmates – Dirty Water
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    Cover of The Standells track by the British pub-rock group, The Inmates. Label: Radar Records – ADA 44 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Hüsker Dü ‎– Makes No Sense At All / Love Is All Around
    Hüsker Dü ‎– Makes No Sense At All / Love Is All Around
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    “While the primal blast of Black Flag’s early releases sounded the clarion call for what would become the hardcore punk revolution, SST, the label founded by Black Flag leader Greg [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Stiff Little Fingers ‎– Gotta Gettaway
    Stiff Little Fingers ‎– Gotta Gettaway
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    From their 1980 album, Nobody’s Heroes. A ripping highlight of their career. Label: Rough Trade – RT 015 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Jam ‎– All Mod Cons
    The Jam ‎– All Mod Cons
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    Repress (1 year after release) – super clean vinyl, jacket is VG but in nice shape. Love the mods! Label: Polydor – PD-1-6188, Polydor – 2383 517 Format: Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Ramones ‎– Road To Ruin
    Ramones ‎– Road To Ruin
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    “When the Ramones started work on their fourth album, Road to Ruin, in early 1978, they were in something of a bind. Their previous three albums had helped spark the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
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    Torn Light Records recording artists Fruit Looops lastest EP released via Orange Milk Records. Mental & fried 4 track CD of their stripped down vocal/synth/drum line up of art punk/electronic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Big Boys ‎– Fun, Fun, Fun… (2013 Reissue)
    Big Boys ‎– Fun, Fun, Fun… (2013 Reissue)
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    “Big Boys music, artwork, and defying attitude have resonated for decades from their inception in 1979 until their demise in 1984. To be able to blend punk, hardcore punk, post-punk, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
    A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
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    In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Civilized – Dust And Blood (Tour Edition)
    Civilized – Dust And Blood (Tour Edition)
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    “Denver’s CIVILIZED react violently to their environment with an all-out assault on those spineless and disloyal cowards that we call “friends.” On these 8 songs we hear timeless hardcore [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Repos ‎– Rejoice In Ruin b/w Haunted Peace (Test Press)
    The Repos ‎– Rejoice In Ruin b/w Haunted Peace (Test Press)
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    Numbered test press from Repos 4th EP on Organized Crime Label: Organized Crime Records – OCR 0517 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Numbered, Test Pressing Country: US Released: 2013 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore