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Are you looking to buy rare and out of print vinyl punk LPs? Check out the awesome selection below!
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SWA - Sex Doctor - Vinyl album featuring guitarist Sylvia Juncosa on SST Records
Blending the punk sounds of the SST label (Black Flag, Minutemen) with those of '70s hard rock sludgemeisters, SWA debuted in 1985 with Your Future (If You Have One). Led by former Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski and vocalist Merrill Ward, the group released Sex Dr. the following year and then added guitarist Sylvia Juncosa (also with To Damascus). XCIII followed in 1987, after which Evolution 85-87 summed up the first three albums. Juncosa left soon after to begin a solo career, with Phil Van Duyne replacing her on 1989's Winter. It was SWA's last album, though Juncosa released solo albums in 1988 and 1989.
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The Leaving Trains - Loser Illusion Pt 0 - Colored vinyl 10 inch on SST Records
An indie-rock subversive who has been known to perform in dresses almost as much as his ex-wife Courtney Love, Falling James (Moreland) has led the Leaving Trains with a revolving lineup since the group formed in 1980. Originally in a Los Angeles punk band named the Mongrels during 1978-79, Falling James formed the Downers in 1980 (with David Roback, later of Mazzy Star, and John Hoffs, the brother of the Bangles sisters) and then the Leaving Trains later that year, with guitarist Manfred Hofer, bassist Tom Hofer, keyboard player Sylvia Juncosa and drummer Hillary Laddin. The band gigged around the area during the next three years, but included only the Hofer brothers by the time Leaving Trains debuted on vinyl with 1984's Well Down Blue Highway, on Bemisbrain/Enigma Records.
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Saint James Infirmary - S/T - Vinyl album on Allied Records
The Oakland-based emo-core unit Saint James Infirmary comprised former members of East Bay area bands including Engage, Dempsey and Accustomed to Nothing; after debuting with a seven-inch single they recruited vocalist Scott Carter in time for their 1997 self-titled debut LP.
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Painted Willie - Mind Bowling - Vinyl LP
Formed from the ashes of Sin 34, Painted Willie debuted on SST with the label's trademark sense of adolescent humor, though tied more to straight-ahead rock than punk or hardcore. Guitarist Vic Makauskas, bassist Phil Newman, and drummer Dave Markey formed in Los Angeles in the early '80s, released Mind Bowling in 1985, then recorded a live EP in nearby Van Nuys one year later. Upsidedowntown followed in 1987, after which the band broke up, though SST released the Relics compilation in 1988
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Trumans Water - Godspeed The Punchline - Vinyl album on Homestead Records 1993
On Godspeed the Punchline, San Diego's Trumans Water added to their already incessant indie punk fan base. The hodgepodge of sounds at the beginning of the first track, "Destroy 1998," suggest a manic flurry of music to follow, and it's true. Many of the tracks begin with silly, innovative audio experiments. The band's confident and brash style of noisy indie rock was certainly catching on by this point. From the hypnotic howling at the beginning of "Long End of a Firearm" to the wonderful cut-and-paste avant noise on "Ungalactic," the band began to experiment with more than straightforward angular guitar noise. "Outpatient Lightspeed" and "Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath" manage to pack an album's worth of punkish energy into a few minutes. The quietly distant instrumentation of "Spaceship Next Door" dances behind Glen Galloway's spoken vocals on the disc's final track. While some of the band's charming sloppiness had faded, Galloway's unyielding vocals hadn't wavered. Homestead and LSR Records released the LP in 1993.
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Meat Puppets - No Strings Attached - Double (2) LPs
No Strings Attached is a 1990 compilation album of Meat Puppets songs released by their ex-record label SST Records. The compilation was released after the Meat Puppets left SST Records to join London Records. The compilation includes songs from their first album Meat Puppets (1982) through to their 1989 album Monsters.
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Live Skull - Swingtime - Vinyl album on Homestead Records
Live Skull formed in downtown New York City in 1983 by the guitar/bandleader tandem of Mark C. and Tom Paine. They were soon joined by drummer James Lo and Marnie Greenholz (Paine's then-girlfriend), on bass guitar. In 1984, a self-titled debut 12" EP saw release on the tiny Massive label. They soon signed with indie label Homestead Records, which released their 1985 debut full-length Bringing Home the Bait. On this LP, vocal duties were shared by Greenholz, Paine, and C. Their 1986 album called Cloud One featured slightly more accessible song structures. A concert album called Live: Don't Get Any On You was recorded at CBGB later that year.
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Trench - Magnet - Seven Inch vinyl on Allied Records
The second and final album by Lawndale doesn't make any astonishing advances from their first -- but how could you improve on one of the best surf-fusion albums ever made? The band's trademark interlocking guitar melodies are as energetic and precise as ever, and the compositions are as brilliant and quirky as ever. Once again, there is one highly unlikely fusion of two artists' work -- the version of Duke Ellington's "Caravan" with Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" -- and once again it works like a charm. Lawndale sounds perfect here, and there is no clue that this would be their swan song. After the recording of "Beyond Barbecue," the band drifted apart, and though they sporadically reunited for concerts and even wrote some new material, none of it was ever released.
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King Snake Roost - Ground Into The Dirt - Vinyl Album
King Snake Roost toured the U.S. with Babes in Toyland, Helmet, and the Hard-Ons. During the two-month tour, they recorded their third album with producer Butch Vig. During this time, Tolnay also worked with the Dead Kennedys' lead singer Jello Biafra and members of U.S. band Steel Pole Bathtub under the banner Tumor Circus. Ground Into the Dirt was released in 1990 on the Amphetamine Reptile label in the U.S. and Megadisc in Europe
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Kill Sybil - ST - Vinyl LP on Empty records
Seattle quintet Kill Sybil - initially just Sybil, the name under which the group issued a 1991 single - once had future Hole batterer Patty Schemel sitting on its drum throne. (Her brother Larry Schemel was one of the band's two guitarists.) Her drumming on two tracks, however, is not the best feature of the band's lone album. Kill Sybil boasts impressive three-dimensional sound and tempers the rage of punk hormones with bright pop tunes that could have been snatched from tweepoppers like Tiger Trap. Frequently resembling Hole's Live Through This (which it predates) in presence if not temper, Kill Sybil is better than good in every department other than Tammy Watson's unsteady lead vocals. And even that problem is successfully addressed with overdubbing. Additionally, Stevescott Schmaljohn of Treepeople joins his moonlighting bandmate, drummer Eric Akre, to sing "Broken Back," and guitarist Dale Balenseifen takes the mic for "Something to Tell." Except for a brief blurt of in-concert incoherence, the songs have shape, substance and dynamic variety ("Best" even waxes gently atmospheric before unleashing its power); the guitarists' furious strumming layers unconventional chords into intriguing textures and then punctures them with noisy solos. Best of all, there's more diverse melodicism than should be expected from such an energetically clamorous band. Even when the music is jumping around wildly, Kill Sybil keeps its feet on solid ground.
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