Soul Side

Along with the Uniform Choice LP I got a bunch of 7"s my buddy wanted me to have. They're all Dischord bands I'd meant to check out for a long time and thanks to my buddy I finally have the opportunity. This Souls Side 7" is really good. Cool revolution summer style hardcore. This won't be the last of their releases featured on here.

I-Scream-For-Pink

A long time want for me was an original copy of Screaming For Change. I only have a repress on Wishingwell (have there ever been any bootlegs?) and one of the represses Southern Lord did some time ago. Coloured copies show up rarely and they usually go for a pretty penny. So when a good friend of mine sent me a list with records he was considering selling and there was this beautiful copy on pink vinyl listed, I didn't hesitate. I was okay with paying a little more, because a) it's just a beautiful record, b) it was from a seller in the same country, so shipping was cheap and customs a non-issue, and c) said friend had made me some really good prices in the past. I haven't been that excited about finally holding a record in my hands for a long time, but this was definitely different. Not sure if I want to go down the rabbit hole of collecting all colour variants. Right now I'm very happy with this pink copy.

What We Built

Small gap filler I picked up for cheap along with the Battery LP. Little bit of ring wear, but the record plays fine. Again, if I can upgrade the record at some point, I'll gladly do it. But for now I'm okay with it.

Battered Battery

Only The Diehard Remain by Battery is an LP that is hard to come by, at least if you want to go for the real deal and not that ugly as hell picture disc Lost And Found Records put out. After scouring eBay, message boards and Discogs for months I finally came across a copy and snagged it. When I got the record, I was a little disappointed because the sleeve is banged up a lot. The seller put the description in the wrong line of the excel sheet. It can happen I guess. The record plays fine though and that's the most important part. It will do for listening purposed but if I can upgrade the sleeve, I'll jump right on it.

Sick Of It All

Long time, no see. I know that I stated a while back that I was going to take it slow, but even I didn't expect to take it that slow. I still have some backlog that needs to be blogged about. All in all, this stay-at-home-dad thing is the best thing ever, but I still have to learn how ration my me time.

Quality over quantity has been the motto for 2018 so far. I mainly managed to pick up a few records on my want list at the beginning of 2018. So while I haven't picked up that many (current) records, it's been a pretty good collecting year so far.

I hadn't made any progress with my Sick Of It All 7" collection in quite some time, so I'm really stoked that I finally managed to pick up a first press of SOIA's debut. It's in pretty good shape all in all and I paid a lot less than the going rate.

The first press is numbered /1000. I got #770. When I got the record, of course I examined it closely. As you can see someone scribbled 'My Life' over the number with a blue pen. I didn't know what to make of it, so I decided to consult the almighty  RevCollectors message board and sure enough I got a satisfying answer: apparently there are quite a few copies who came with some sort of scribbling in blue ink. So it seems to be a legit thing. Pretty cool. Would be interesting what other phrases / words were written on the inside of sleeves.