If you’re a record collector who has spent any time keeping up with new releases within your preferred genres, surely at least once you’ve missed out on buying something “limited” that went OOP within minutes of being put up for…
Category: punk
“I Thought Solihull Was For Snobs: The Mell Square Musick Story” by Paul Panic
In the Summer 2001 issue of Ugly Things Magazine, author/archivist/curator Johan Kugelberg wrote a feature describing “The godlike glory of DIY records; the shoddy xerox sleeve; the rubber-stamped label, the cheapest pressing imaginable; the inside jokes in the label copy;…
“To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
Being a collector of indie/punk/etc records in New York City for any period of time in the 90’s/early 00’s means at least one of two things: 1. You’ve been in a record store somewhere below 14th St in Manhattan and…
“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” – Jack Nicholson
Whether it was Star Wars figures, baseball cards or records, I’ve always had a proclivity for collecting things that appear on lists. The catalogs that came inside Star Wars boxes, the checklist cards that came in sports cards packs and…
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” – W. A. Mozart
The first time I heard of David Peel was when I was 16 or 17 years old, still in high school, and I happened upon a copy of the “King Of Punk” LP at a record store. Even at that…