Buy In Bulk

I love when friends text me after finding a record collection for sale or an online seller that they want to order from, but since they're good friends, they look out for you, too. That's also how you spend even more money on records you hadn't necessarily planned on buying. 

I've been listening to a lot of Undertow these last few months after ignoring the band for a couple of years almost completely. That's how it goes sometimes. So when I had the chance to pick up a missing piece for cheap money and shipping, I jumped at it. The orange vinyl works pretty well with the cover. Well done, Indecision Records. 

Clear Orange on Indecision Records /345

I also picked up a copy of Dirty Money's No Escaping This. I got hyped on Dirty Money when High Vis covered the Dirty Money Intro off the demo. I knew the band existed when it was around but I don't think I ever listened to them back then, which clearly was a mistake, but hindsight is always 20/20. Unfortunately, there's no pressing info on Discogs for this variant. If anyone can help me out with this, I'd appreciate it. 

First Press (?) on Grey Vinyl /???

When Dead&Gone Is Dead And Gone

When Dead&Gone, the label Death Is Not Glamorous had released a bunch of their records on, came to an end, label and band decided to do something to commemorate their collaboration, so they came up with this Farewell sleeve for DING's Soft Clicks LP. The vinyl itself is part of the 2nd press on clear yellow vinyl. 65 copies total, I have #11. Thanks again for the trade, Marcus.

Death Is Not Glamorous Split

More Death Is Not Glamorous records. The split with Down And Outs comes on two colours, clear purple (which looks way redder than it is in reality) and clear yellow. Both variants are out of 500. The DING side is as good as anything else they recorded. I'd never heard Down And Outs before and I have to say it's not like I'd missed out on anything. The voice in particular is not for me.

Undercurrents

One of the trades I did recently involved Sick Of It All and Death Is Not Glamorous. A fellow collector asked me if I could help him get the special edition of the SOIA 7" which was made for the Conne Island 25 year show a few weeks ago. I had to pull some strings since I couldn't go myself, but I managed to make sure he and I both got a copy. In return he traded me a bunch of DING records he didn't want any more. Here's the first press of the Undercurrents 7" on clear blue out of 300. Pretty good deal in my book.

Death Is Not Glamorous

Death Is Not Glamorous is one of my favourite European bands from the last 10 years. I've probably said that before, but I can't say that enough. I once got a CD promo copy of this LP and I was hooked immediately. Yet somehow I never bothered to pick up a vinyl copy of this. A few weeks ago I came across this great looking colour combination of this LP and had to get it right away. The picture doesn't do the colours justice, I'm afraid, but I'm too bad a photographer to get a better picture. The red in the record is a nice looking purple in real life, and thus fits the sleeve much better. It really looks great if you actually hold it in your hands. This is the pre-order variant out of 300.