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  • Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop – Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop
    Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop – Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop
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    Connecticut “noise legends,” and God’s least favorite two-piece, DOOM BEACH, follow up their sophomore LP Copperhead with the release of four head-splitting songs in [...]

  • V.A. – Passing Bells 7″
    V.A. – Passing Bells 7″
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    6 track comp 7” with all killer, no filler. A return to the 80s and 90s style of high quality cooperative comp releases you actually love to have in your […]

  • The Last Survivors – 2001-2016 LP
    The Last Survivors – 2001-2016 LP
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    Chaos is here! Legendary Tokyo raw punks, THE LAST SURVIVORS early material finally collected in one place. The Last Survivors sent shock waves through the Japanese punk scene showing there […]

  • Deef – 1982-1983 CD
    Deef – 1982-1983 CD
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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 […]

  • Deef – Real Control LP
    Deef – Real Control LP
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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 […]

  • Deef – Nou LP
    Deef – Nou LP
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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, […]

  • Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken-Ichi LP
    Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken-Ichi LP
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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 […]

  • Die Öwan – Öwannibalism LP
    Die Öwan – Öwannibalism LP
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    A cult teenage Japanese punk group which existed from 1979-1983, and during that time managed to release the rarest punk record in Japan, operate their own cassette label, organize house […]

  • Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
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    Julian Isaacs aka Auntie Pus, made a bet with his childhood friend Chris Millar (Rat Scabies of The Damned) that one of them would have a top ten record within […]

  • V/A – Sudden Death
    V/A – Sudden Death
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    Label: Smoke Seven Records – SMK 7-105, Smoke Seven Records – Smk 7 105 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982   VG+/VG+ – Light shelf wear.

  • Fucked Up – Rivoli (Transparent Magenta & Opaque Black Vinyl)
    Fucked Up – Rivoli (Transparent Magenta & Opaque Black Vinyl)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    2xLP LP recorded live at the Rivoli Club in June 2014, 6 days after the release of “Glass Boys”. This release gives you Fucked Up at their peak, bringing you […]

  • Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
    Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Collecting the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devastating one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends “The Modern Dance” and “Dub Housing”, following by [...]

  • Minor Threat – Out Of Step
    Minor Threat – Out Of Step
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    ***BACK IN PRINT ON BRAND NEW WHITE VINYL!!! MINOR THREAT’s classic 1983 Out of Step album remastered and re-released.

  • Alien Nosejob – The Derivative Sounds Of
    Alien Nosejob – The Derivative Sounds Of
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    Less than twelve months on from the triumphant rock ’n’ roll record that was Stained Glass, Australia’s most tasteful sonic culinary artiste Jake Robertson serves up The Derivative Sounds Of, [...]

  • Milk Music – Demo + 2
    Milk Music – Demo + 2
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    Milk Music was conceived in the late aughts as brothers Alex Coxen (guitar, vocals) and Joe Rutter (drums) drove around the Northwest jamming on tunes in a shitty old Volvo. […]

  • Superchunk – On The Mouth
    Superchunk – On The Mouth
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    Often referred to as the “difficult third album,” the only thing difficult about it has been trying to find a copy as of late. Now reissued in all of its […]

  • Wipers – Is This Real?
    Wipers – Is This Real?
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    Unquestionably Portland’s most well-loved punk group, THE WIPERS formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real?— twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, [...]

  • Iggy And The Stooges –  Raw Power
    Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    This double LP version includes the originally released David Bowie mix of the album on the first LP and the latter remixed version by Iggy Pop himself on the second […]

  • The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
    The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
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    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

  • The Threat – Lullaby In C / High Cost Of Living
    The Threat – Lullaby In C / High Cost Of Living
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

  • Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
    Thee Retail Simps – Live On Cool St.
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    “After countless hours of data driven market research it was determined that the wild success of the first Retail Simps album, Reverberant Scratch was 82.6% due to the cheeky and […]

  • The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
    The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
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    The Writings of Austin Osman Spare is a collection of three books written by the famous artist and occult author. The three books included in this publication are Anathema of […]

  • Facs – Still Life In Decay LP (Colored Vinyl)
    Facs – Still Life In Decay LP (Colored Vinyl)
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    Everything eventually turns to dust. Everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge that our time on this mortal coil is fleeting, preferring to remain in stasis, in hopes that […]

  • Lethal – Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade
    Lethal – Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade
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    Crawling from beneath the streets of New York City is the brand new project from familiar faces, LETHAL. Bringing together UK influence with NYHC influence…reminding me of bands such as [...]

  • Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers
    Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers
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    Mortarhate Records – LP MORT 5 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Fan Club Release Country: UK Released: 1996 VG+/VG+ Light marks, some shelf & cornerwear

  • Negative Approach – Tied Down
    Negative Approach – Tied Down
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    Reissue Of Negative Approach’s sole LP

  • Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen
    Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Buzzcocks’ seminal first album, lovingly restored and re-mastered from its original ¼ tapes for the first time since its March 1978 release.Newly curated booklet featuring an essay from cultural [...]

  • Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
    Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
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    Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]

  • Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
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    In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]

  • Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
    Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]

  • William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
    William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
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    “Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]

  • Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
    Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]

  • Nōh Mercy – S/T
    Nōh Mercy – S/T
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    Formed in San Francisco in 1977, Noh Mercy was comprised of only two women: Esmerelda and Tony Hotel. The band’s motto was “No Boys On Guitars” as a reaction against […]

  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 “Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

  • Chat Pile – Tenkiller Motion Picture Soundtrack
    Chat Pile – Tenkiller Motion Picture Soundtrack
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    Oklahoma’s Chat Pile have had an exciting 2022; they released their album God’s Country, toured the midwest and east coast in support of the album, announced their appearance at Roadburn […]

  • Fucked Up – One Day
    Fucked Up – One Day
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    With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian hardcore [...]

  • MX-80 Sound – Big Hits And Other Bits
    MX-80 Sound – Big Hits And Other Bits
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    This monster package of 1976 material comprises 18 songs, including the entire original 7-song EP, 2 rarities and 9 previously unreleased tracks, all meticulously mastered from the original [...]

  • V/A – Oi! 40 Years Untamed – 2020
    V/A – Oi! 40 Years Untamed – 2020
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    It has been forty years since the release of “Oi – The Album”. Four decades of laughter, defiance and working class rebellion. To celebrate its ruby anniversary, GARRY BUSHELL—who put [...]

  • Sonic Youth – EVOL
    Sonic Youth – EVOL
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    What our staff has to say: “‘Mystery train/three-way plane/expressway to your skull.’ Enough said.” – Cleo Released in May 1986 on SST Records and Blast First! in the UK, EVOL [...]

  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

  • Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
    Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
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    Sun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.

  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
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    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]

  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
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    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

  • Suicide – A Way of Life Rarities (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Suicide – A Way of Life Rarities (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
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    This Rarities EP is part of the celebration of the 35th anniversary of Suicide’s third studio album. It includes a selection of unheard rarities found in the band’s archive ,including […]

  • Hüsker Dü – Hüsker Dü – Tonite Longhorn (2xLP, Album, RSD) (NM or M-)
    Hüsker Dü – Hüsker Dü – Tonite Longhorn (2xLP, Album, RSD) (NM or M-)
    $47.00 | , Add to cart

    A 2xLP set of rare, early Hüsker Dü live recordings, featuring original flyers and artwork. Drawn from the historical Hüsker Dü recording archives compiled by Terry Katzman, this double disc […]

  • Carnivorous Bells ‎– Room Above All
    Carnivorous Bells ‎– Room Above All
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    Human Headstone presents…”Room Above All,” the sophomore installment from Philadelphia’s Carnivorous Bells.Carnivorous Bells uniquely carve through ten compositions under [...]

  • Why Bother? – A City of Unsolved Miseries LP (Pre-Order)
    Why Bother? – A City of Unsolved Miseries LP (Pre-Order)
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    Mason City, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? return with ‘A City of Unsolved Miseries’, their third album in as many years. Their patented basement recording setup has yet again captured [...]

  • Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Pink Vinyl)
    Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Pink Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Leave it for General Speech to show you something you’ve never heard of. This time it’s Auntie Pus. Early UK punk, friends and contemporaries […]

  • Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties. Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks [...]

  • Discharge – Early Demos March/June 1977 (Red Vinyl)
    Discharge – Early Demos March/June 1977 (Red Vinyl)
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    Vinyl LP pressing. UK archive release from the Hardcore Punk legends containing some of their earliest recordings. These previously unreleased demos predate their debut album by three years and [...]

  • Blitz – Voice Of A Generation
    Blitz – Voice Of A Generation
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    What our staff has to say: “Blitz is like the Cheap Trick of 80’s UK Punk but instead of 2 hot guys and 2 ugly guys, it’s 2 punks and […]

  • Blitz – Time Bomb: Early Singles And Demos Collection
    Blitz – Time Bomb: Early Singles And Demos Collection
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    Repress, originally released in 2013. A pure shot of abrasive punk/rock n’ roll with a hint of working class Oi!, Blitz were among the most influential punk bands ever. It […]

  • Anti-Cimex – The Complete Demos Collection 1982-1983
    Anti-Cimex – The Complete Demos Collection 1982-1983
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    It’s with great pleasure that we announce the Swedish raw punk legends ANTI CIMEX have finally reached the joyful lands of Agipunk. On this record we’re collecting in chronological [...]

  • Television – Live At The Waldorf In San Francisco 29 June 1978
    Television – Live At The Waldorf In San Francisco 29 June 1978
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    Fan Club Edition

  • Germs – (GI)
    Germs – (GI)
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    One of the leading bands of the ’70s Los Angeles punk scene, the Germs (Darby Crash, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and Don Bolles) only released one studio album before the […]

  • Charged G.B.H – Leather, Bristles, Studs And Acne.
    Charged G.B.H – Leather, Bristles, Studs And Acne.
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    2022 repress; Radiation Records present a reissue of GBH‘s Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys…, originally released in 1982. In between the charting debut LP City Baby [...]

  • Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
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    Limited pressing of 300 with riso sleeve. “In the spirit of Dead Moon before them, Green/Blue have wrangled the simplicity of “Worry” and “Gimme Hell” to write some of their […]

  • Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
    Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
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    B-sides and rarities from the era of Fucked Up’s opus: David Comes To Life. Featuring 9 songs previously only available on 7-inch vinyl.

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
    Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
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    Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, For Ever […]