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  • Ramones – Ramones
    Ramones – Ramones
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    “With the three-chord assault of “Blitzkrieg Bop,” The Ramones begins at a blinding speed and never once over the course of its 14 songs does it let up. The Ramones […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Cramps – How To Make A Monster
    The Cramps – How To Make A Monster
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    “Part of the beauty of the Cramps is the consistency of their vision — since 1976, their body of work has been one long fever dream of kinky sex, bug-eyed […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • X – More Fun In The New World
    X – More Fun In The New World
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    “Coming off their 1982 masterpiece Under the Big Black Sun, X offered their follow-up More Fun in the New World one year later. While its predecessor won the band a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gun Club ‎– Death Party
    Gun Club ‎– Death Party
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    “Gun Club’s Death Party EP was issued in 1983 between the mixing and mastering disaster that was Miami, the band’s second album, and the nearly sublime Las Vegas Story. The […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Mystic Sampler 1 & 2
    V/A – Mystic Sampler 1 & 2
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    “Collecting both classic punk/hxc comp LPs into one disc” Label: Mystic Records – MCD 126, Format: CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2006 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
  • Gun Club ‎– Early Warning
    Gun Club ‎– Early Warning
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    “Just like a classic noir crime novel, L.A.’s Gun Club absorbed and spit out the glitz, glamour, filth, and blood of the city’s underbelly, and crafted it into something [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Book Of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures Of Japanese Folklore
    The Book Of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures Of Japanese Folklore
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    Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Healing Flower Color Cards
    The Healing Flower Color Cards
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    77 card deck that combines Dr. E. Bachs Flower medicine and color therapy meditation with outstanding plant and flower drawings to make anyone a flower botanist. AGM Aktiengesellschaft [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce, as-is)
    The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce, as-is)
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    A facetious guide to emulating the look, speech patterns, thinking, and lifestyle of those who attend prep schools and are a part of high society. Workman Publishing, 1980 Softcover edition. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
    The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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    Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thom O’Neill – Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and The Secret History Of The 60s
    Thom O’Neill – Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and The Secret History Of The 60s
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    Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terence McKenna – The Archaic Revival
    Terence McKenna – The Archaic Revival
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    Cited by the L.A. Weekly as “the culture’s foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience,” Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robin Wagner-Pacifici – Discourse & Destruction: The City Of Philadelphia Vs MOVE
    Robin Wagner-Pacifici – Discourse & Destruction: The City Of Philadelphia Vs MOVE
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    In the early 1980s the radical group MOVE settled into a rowhouse in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of west Philadelphia, beginning years of confrontations with neighbors and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard King – Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life
    Richard King – Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life
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    The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. From his pioneering compositions as part of New York’s vibrant avant-garde scene (alongside artists including Philip Glass, David Byrne, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Renegade Sisters: Girl Gangs On Film
    Renegade Sisters: Girl Gangs On Film
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    From boarding school to women’s prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple feature of exploitation/independent cinema. Renegade Sisters examines [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • George Hayduke – Revenge
    George Hayduke – Revenge
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    Depicts pranks that can be used to humiliate, defame, insult, or trick individuals or organizations on whom one seeks revenge Lyle Stuart, 1982 Softcover Edition. Some discoloration to wraps and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • George Hayduke – Getting Even 2
    George Hayduke – Getting Even 2
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    Enemies beware! Here’s the outrageous sequel to the underground best-seller, Get Even, presenting a wide range of all-new dirty tricks people pull to get even with big business bums, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
    Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
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    Since its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • AUM Shinrikyo And Human Rights: A Special Issue Of Syzygy
    AUM Shinrikyo And Human Rights: A Special Issue Of Syzygy
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    An issue Syzygy Journal (a journal dedicated to specialized religious studies) focused on the AUM cult in Japan. SYZYGY, 1999 Softcover Edition. Light general wear. Circling to table of contents

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Death: 83 Days Of Radiation Sickness
    A Slow Death: 83 Days Of Radiation Sickness
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    Japan’s worst nuclear radiation accident took place at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, on 30 September 1999. The direct cause of the accident was cited as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Taste Of Blood: The Films Of Herschell Gordon Lewis
    A Taste Of Blood: The Films Of Herschell Gordon Lewis
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    The incredibly popular, violent horror films of recent decades, such as “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Friday the 13th”, and “Nightmare on Elm Street”, owe much [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chronophage – Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship
    Chronophage – Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship
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    Is Chronophage’s new album “cool”: No. Is it cool to listen to Chronophage’s new 4-song album: No. Will it appreciate in value: No. Is it a balm to society’s ills: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A  ‎– Rockabilly Psychosis And The Garage Disease (Check Cover Condition)
    V/A ‎– Rockabilly Psychosis And The Garage Disease (Check Cover Condition)
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    2008 release, a wild 16 track compilation including rabid Rockabilly and Garage Rock cuts like ‘My Daddy Is a Vampire,’ ‘Radioactive Kid,’ ‘Dateless Night,’ [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore, Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Redd Kross ‎– Annette’s Got The Hits
    Redd Kross ‎– Annette’s Got The Hits
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    A reissue of their first EP (which itself was a reissue of their cuts on The Siren compilation, back when they were known as Red Cross — before a certain […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Black Flag ‎– Loose Nut
    Black Flag ‎– Loose Nut
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    One of three LPs released by Black Flag in 1985, Loose Nut suffers from its creators’ rampant profligacy. Too much of the record is under-rehearsed and under-ripe, yet when the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Saccharine Trust ‎– Surviving You, Always
    Saccharine Trust ‎– Surviving You, Always
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    “Saccharine Trust’s new album has an artistic approach that reminds many of the MINUTEMEN, although they seem even more demented and experimental.” – Maximum Rock N Roll Label: [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Urinals – Negative Capability…Check It Out!
    Urinals – Negative Capability…Check It Out!
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    “The ultimate early-Urinals anthology is now available! Includes the complete “Urinals,” “Another EP,” and “Sex/Go Away Girl” 7-inch material, 3 tunes [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Roland Barthes – S/Z
    Roland Barthes – S/Z
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    “S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes’ structural analysis of “Sarrasine”, the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through the text of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nathalie Leger – The White Dress
    Nathalie Leger – The White Dress
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    “The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Léger’s award-winning triptych of books about women who “through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery” (ELLE). In Exposition, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noreen Khawaja – The Religion Of Existence
    Noreen Khawaja – The Religion Of Existence
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    “The Religion of Existence reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jon Stewart – Dylan, Lennon, Marx And God
    Jon Stewart – Dylan, Lennon, Marx And God
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    “Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century’s most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Rock / Pop
  • John Corbett – A Listener’s Guide To Free Improvisation
    John Corbett – A Listener’s Guide To Free Improvisation
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    “Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they’re even suspicious of it. John Coltrane’s saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix’s feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar’s sitar [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
    Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
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    “Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georges Bataille – Critical Essays 1
    Georges Bataille – Critical Essays 1
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    “In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Geoffrey Roberts – Stalin’s Library: A Dictator And His Books
    Geoffrey Roberts – Stalin’s Library: A Dictator And His Books
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    “In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
    Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
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    “Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
    Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
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    “How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
    Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
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    At a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
    Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
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    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Scream – Gov’t Primer [true 1st press]
    Scream – Gov’t Primer [true 1st press]
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    Label: Immortal Nuts Records – 639 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media:VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes:

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80
    V/A – Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80
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    Soul Jazz Records’ new Secret Superstar Sounds brings together a wealth of incredibly catchy tunes from late-70s/early-80s British groups that you have probably never heard of! Powerpop mixed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Poison Idea – Kings Of Punk
    Poison Idea – Kings Of Punk
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    Kings of Punk is a barely contained blast of rage and animosity, which is all the more effective for the fact it lasts a mere 26 minutes. Whatever you can […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A  – Punk 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
    V/A – Punk 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
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    Initially released in a deluxe vinyl-only edition (totally sold out), Soul Jazz Records’ ‘PUNK 45: I’m A Mess’ is now being released in standard double album vinyl. Soul Jazz [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
    Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
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    Rocket From The Tombs is back. ‘Black Record’ delivers eight new tracks, as well as definitive recordings of Rocket classics ‘Sonic Reducer’ and ‘Read It And Weep’ and a cover […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Excrement – Excrement
    Excrement – Excrement
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    A short lived raw hardcore band from Sapporo City, fusing local influences like Deef and LSD with the noisy sounds of bands like Gai and Confuse. At times it feels […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
    The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
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    4 track unreleased studio EP recording from their Mushi era. The fact these tracks exist, and are as good and as high quality as they are truly the stuff dreams […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fuckin’ Lovers – Crucifixion Of The Masses
    Fuckin’ Lovers – Crucifixion Of The Masses
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    *Green 7″ Jacket First new recordings by this Philly / New York noise punk crew in 6 years. In that time they have continued to hone themselves as a band, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns
    Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns
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    If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B-52’s. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    Pussy Galore – Right Now!
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    Making their intentions clear with the indescribably manic garage stomper “Pig Sweat,” which kicks off this 1987 album, Pussy Galore proceeds to mash it up dumpster style with 19 [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore