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  • High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
    High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
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    “The Hood Museum of Art presents High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury, treating visitors to the largest survey of psychedelic rock posters organized in twenty-five [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
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    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harry Matthews – The Journalist
    Harry Matthews – The Journalist
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    “A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
    H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
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    A “combat guide” from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, as written by a former marine. Posterity Press, 2014 Softcover edition. Light general wear

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
    Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
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    The first book about Jonestown, as told by a journalist who was there and other key eyewitnesses. Berkley, 1978 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Writing on front page. Wear/discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
    Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
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    “Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure — delightful euphemisms. The fille de joie is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable and corrupt, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
    Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
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    “Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
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    “Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
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    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
    Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
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    “An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
    Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
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    “For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
    Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
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    ““The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857). Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
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    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
    Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
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    Issue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
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    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
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    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
    Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
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    Repressed again on black vinyl. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
    Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
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    “Yank Crime” is the second and final album by the San Diego, CA, post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, originally released in 1994 by Interscope Records. It was the band’s [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
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    Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release recorded in 1957, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Personnel: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wipers – Is This Real?
    Wipers – Is This Real?
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    Unquestionably Portland’s most well-loved punk group, they formed in the late 70’s & in 1980 released their debut LP. 12 songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, & [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
    Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
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    When they burst out of the New York underground/CBGB’s movement, the Heads stood apart from the pack because not only were they unlike anything that gone before, they were even […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Wipers – Over The Edge
    Wipers – Over The Edge
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    Bleak, hard-driven 3rd LP (1983) offers GREG SAGE at his most chased & breathless, lashing out w/ sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. The jagged, effortless […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wipers – Youth Of America
    Wipers – Youth Of America
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    Deluxe reissue of their 2nd LP, from ’81. Mastered from the original tapes by Greg Sage himself. One of the most passionate & influential punk records ever. Broken up into […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents
    The Residents – Meet The Residents
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    Vinyl reissue of The Residents’ classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially)! Mixing everything from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
    Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
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    Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – Duck Stab
    The Residents – Duck Stab
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    Musically, it’s difficult to describe this diverse album. There is a silky, seductive, and murky aspect which creates a supporting liquid background upon which the lyrics float. There is a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
    Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
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    Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Gram Parsons pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music, playing in bands such as the Byrds, the International Submarine Band and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
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    “By the time they released Fire On the Bayou in 1975, the Meters (now a quintet, with addition of Cyril Neville to the lineup) had graduated from regional cult heroes […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
    The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
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    Vinyl LP repressing of this 1988 album from the British band fronted by the troubled genius that is Shane MacGowan. If I Should Fall From Grace With God was the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Joy Division – Closer
    Joy Division – Closer
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    Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. Closer, the band’s 1980 sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
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    Limited 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. 1979’s Unknown Pleasures features [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
    The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
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    “The Replacements’ 1981 debut, like the Stink EP that came on its heels, is laden with hardcore punk that was the flavor in underground rock of the time, albeit of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Replacements – Let It Be
    The Replacements – Let It Be
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    Let It Be looms large among ’80s rock albums, generally regarded as one of the greatest records of the decade. Nothing about Let It Be is clean; it’s all a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Black Sabbath – Paranoid
    Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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    Limited 180 gram black vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Paranoid is the second studio album by English metal band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, it was the [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
    The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
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    The Replacements penultimate and darkest album

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
    The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
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    “While some continue to champion the Replacements’ Don’t Tell a Soul and All Shook Down exit albums, Pleased to Meet Me truly represents the last vital effort of a great […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
    Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
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    “Richard & Linda Thompson’s marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ramones – Rocket To Russia
    Ramones – Rocket To Russia
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones, and was released on November 4, 1977, through Sire […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Ramones
    Ramones – Ramones
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing rock and roll at one of it’s lowest ebbs with attitude, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Road To Ruin
    Ramones – Road To Ruin
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    Ramones’ fourth studio album from 1978. Features the classic song I Wanna Be Sedated. – The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
    Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
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    Spoiler alert. A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of 1977’s Interface. The album’s final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Prine – Sweet Revenge
    John Prine – Sweet Revenge
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    Sweet Revenge is the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973. Prine started veering rock ‘n’ roll on this 1973 album, and the result […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – John Prine
    John Prine – John Prine
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    John Prine is the debut album by American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine, issued by Atlantic Records in 1971. In 2012, the album was ranked number 452 on Rolling Stone magazine’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – Common Sense
    John Prine – Common Sense
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    John Prine’s fourth studio album Common Sense was produced by Steve Cropper and was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and Larabee Studios in Los Angeles. The album features [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – Lost In Translation
    V/A – Lost In Translation
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    Lost In Translation (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) was the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s Academy Award winning movie of the same name. The soundtrack earned supervisor / [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Faust – The Faust Tapes
    Faust – The Faust Tapes
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1973. There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by Fleetwood Mac, originally released in 1975. This was the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Johnny Thunders – So Alone
    Johnny Thunders – So Alone
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    “Following the drug-fueled implosion of the Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders bounced back with his first solo outing, So Alone. Featuring a veritable who’s who of ’70s punk and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore