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Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends (Sta...
Title: Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your FriendsYear/Genre: 2002, Emo PunkCondition: New Cultura...
Title: Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your FriendsYear/Genre: 2002, Emo PunkCondition: New Cultural Facts: Built on real Long Island friend-group fallout that spilled into the era’s most talked-about band feud and lyric back-and-forth. Early touring leaned on VFW halls, church basements, and suburban matinees—DIY circuits that let emo function like a local social network. The lineup that made this record later fractured and partly reunited, turning the album into a timestamp fans used to...
$27.98
Hatfield and the North – The Rotters’ Club
Title: Hatfield and the North – The Rotters’ ClubYear/Genre: 1975, Prog Rock / Canterbury SceneCo...
Title: Hatfield and the North – The Rotters’ ClubYear/Genre: 1975, Prog Rock / Canterbury SceneCondition: New Cultural Facts: Second album by Hatfield and the North, built from veterans of the English Canterbury scene, including ex-members of Caravan, Egg, and Matching Mole. Its title later inspired British author Jonathan Coe’s 2001 novel The Rotters’ Club, a rare case of a prog LP lending its name to contemporary literature. The record sits at the crossroads of mid-’70s UK art-rock an...
$29.98
Blur – The Great Escape (with Bonus B-Sides Disc)
Title: Blur – The Great Escape (with Bonus B-Sides Disc)Year/Genre: 1995, BritpopMatrix #: N/ACon...
Title: Blur – The Great Escape (with Bonus B-Sides Disc)Year/Genre: 1995, BritpopMatrix #: N/ACondition: New Cultural Facts: Released at the height of Britpop, it’s the third part of Blur’s mid-’90s “London life” run after Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. Arrived during the tabloids’ “Battle of Britpop,” with Blur and Oasis framed as rival spokesbands for UK youth culture. The bonus B-sides disc pulls in material once scattered across UK CD singles, now bundled for collectors in one...
$44.98
Bad Brains – Omega Sessions (Staff Pick!)
Title: Bad Brains – Omega SessionsYear/Genre: 1997, Hardcore PunkMatrix #: N/ACondition: New Cult...
Title: Bad Brains – Omega SessionsYear/Genre: 1997, Hardcore PunkMatrix #: N/ACondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded in 1980 at Omega Studios in Rockville, Maryland, when Bad Brains were shifting from D.C. jazz-fusion roots into full-throttle hardcore. Captures early studio versions from the same era as their legendary self-distributed cassette that spread through taping and mail-order. Long circulated as a sought-after document of the band’s pre-album peak, tying D.C. hardcore back to...
$26.98
The Gun Club – Miami 2XLP (Unreleased Tracks on...
Title: The Gun Club – MiamiYear/Genre: 1982, Post-PunkMatrix #: N/ACondition: New Cultural Facts:...
Title: The Gun Club – MiamiYear/Genre: 1982, Post-PunkMatrix #: N/ACondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded after The Gun Club moved from L.A.’s early punk clubs onto a wider indie circuit, with sessions overseen by Blondie’s Chris Stein in New York. Debbie Harry quietly contributed backing vocals under a pseudonym, reflecting the band’s ties to the downtown NYC art-punk world. The album marks Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s shift from local cult figure to haunted frontman mythologized across ’80s ...
$32.98
Link Wray & The Raymen – Great Guitar Hits (180g)
Title: Link Wray & The Raymen – Great Guitar HitsYear/Genre: 1960, Rock & RollCondition: ...
Title: Link Wray & The Raymen – Great Guitar HitsYear/Genre: 1960, Rock & RollCondition: New Cultural Facts: Link Wray, a Shawnee guitarist raised in North Carolina and Virginia, helped introduce heavy amp distortion and power chords into early rock. His instrumental “Rumble” was so associated with juvenile gangs that several U.S. radio stations banned it, one of the only instrumentals ever pulled for being “dangerous.” These sides capture the raw, echo-drenched 1950s/early-’60s...
$19.98
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (180G Color!)
Title: Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah UmYear/Genre: 1959, JazzMatrix #: JWR4530Condition: New Cultura...
Title: Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah UmYear/Genre: 1959, JazzMatrix #: JWR4530Condition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded for Columbia in 1959 as Mingus moved from indie labels into the major-label jazz spotlight. Includes a pointed civil-rights protest piece aimed at Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, reflecting growing political tension in late-’50s America. Often filed near Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach for adventurous, composer-driven modern jazz.
$19.98