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  • The Damned – The History Of The World Part I
    The Damned – The History Of The World Part I
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    The first single from The Damned’s 1980 album, The Black Album. Label: Chiswick Records – CHIS 135 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
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    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
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    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
    Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
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    In the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
    Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
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    Neon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
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    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
    Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
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    Soma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
    From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
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    Long before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
    Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
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    The widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
    Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
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    “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
    Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
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    When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
    Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
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    Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lydia Davis – Essays Two
    Lydia Davis – Essays Two
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    In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
    Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
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    As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
    Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
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    From the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
    Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
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    Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
    Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
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    Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Harry Matthews – Tlooth
    Harry Matthews – Tlooth
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    This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
    Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
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    Widely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, ?”Mulligan Stew”?takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
    Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
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    In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
    John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
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    Collected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery’s translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery’s own prose writings and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
    Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
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    In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
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    From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Donald Judd (October Files)
    Donald Judd (October Files)
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    Donald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
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    In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
    We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
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    We Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Leonard Cohen – Shirt
    Leonard Cohen – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Gildan – Shirts Single Colored Print

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  • Spacemen 3 – Shirt
    Spacemen 3 – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Comfort Colors – Shirts Single Colored Print

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  • DEVO – Shirt
    DEVO – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Gildan – Shirts Multi Colored Print

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  • T.V. Personalities Shirt
    T.V. Personalities Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Tan Colored Gildan – Shirts Multi Colored Print

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  • Fishmans – Shirt
    Fishmans – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Moss Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Kraftwerk – Shirt
    Kraftwerk – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Pepper Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • The Pogues – Shirt
    The Pogues – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Pepper Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Marvin Gaye – Shirt
    Marvin Gaye – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Coral Pink Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Multi Color Print

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  • Gene Clarke – Shirt
    Gene Clarke – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Natural Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Robert Wyatt – Shirt
    Robert Wyatt – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Natural Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Sly & The Family Stone – Shirt
    Sly & The Family Stone – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Natural Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt 2 Color Print

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  • Amon Duul ii – Shirt
    Amon Duul ii – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Pepper Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • John Cage – Shirt
    John Cage – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt 2 Color Print

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  • Yoko – Shirt
    Yoko – Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Ashes & Diamonds Shirt
    Ashes & Diamonds Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Bob Dylan – Picasso
    Bob Dylan – Picasso
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Black Colored Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Lana – There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Shirt
    Lana – There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Shirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Comfort Colors – Shirt Single Color Print

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  • Lana – There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Sweatshirt
    Lana – There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Sweatshirt
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    Printed by Center Negative Co. Printed On Comfort Colors – Colorblast – Crewneck Sweatshirt Single Color Print  

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  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
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    Debut release from Circuit Des Yeux that shows Haley Fohr at her darkest and most lo-fi. Label: De Stijl – IND-066 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, White Label, Gray Marbled […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
    Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
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    “That old saw about dancing and architecture notwithstanding, I am like most people who make records in that I do not especially relish the task of writing about them. (Better […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
    Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
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    The duo of Mark Anderson (Bancho Taste / Mysteries of Love) and Mark Sadgrove (Mazda Hatchback / Mysteries of Love) take the wheel and don the louvres to serve up […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
    John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
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    “This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, “Field Dances,” with stage and costume design in the original version by Robert [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
    Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
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    “Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits’ seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it’s transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978’s excellent Blue [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop