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Generally most ebayers are unloading at least 50% percent junk. Unwanted split 7″s w/ Napalm Rod Stewart 3000, 6 volumes of common KBD comps, those tour shirts that everybody else bought and wears to every show… not so w/ Seller: fisheggr from the country of Japan. You’re only going to find this dude selling 5 items but each one could be displayed in a hardcore museum (Jesse Standhard’s record museum R.I.P.). Here’s a breakdown of what I’m talking about, in the form of a list:

1. State Of Alert - No Policy E.P. This is looking like a 3rd press copy to me. The photo is small but I think I can see the Black Flag bars that were added to Henry’s arm for this pressing on the front cover (notice that tiny black dot that would probably look like The Bars at full size). At 16 this seemed like the hardest thing I had ever heard, which prior to that was probably either Pantera or Pro-Pain, but this was a different kind of hard. As a side-note, I heard that when Government Issue first made it to Detroit they played with Negative Approach, and John Brannon and some of the local dogs did a band called SOA-Mania which was just an SOA cover band (ala Beatle-Mania duh). John Stabb reportedly said they were better than the real SOA.
2. Youth Of Today - Break Down The Walls (Wishingwell Pressing). This is the most common item on the list here, but it’s becoming more and more scarce with the passage of time. I now sometimes see these selling for around $50 which a few years ago was pretty unheard of. This is definitely the best mix/mastering job on a poorly recorded, overproduced, and nonetheless start to finish CLASSIC lp. The drums are not nearly as FX-laden, the snare actually sounding like a snare, and some of the chintzy reverb that is heard on later pressings isn’t yet present giving the guitars a little more buzz.
3. Unicef - 1st EP.I can’t lie. I had to ask what this one was. My knowledge of Finnish hardcore is pretty lacking but my understanding is this is 1st teir, “top-want” type stuff. The thing to note here is the opening bid is $200, meanign it will probably only get 1 or 2 bids overall. $200 is slightly lower than going rate, which in effect could lead to someone getting a better than average deal. Keep an eye out.
4. Septic Death - Need So Much Attention (Pusmort Pressing). I think that’s the title of this one. Anyhow this is the original version without the added tracks, and revised art. Septic Death being one of the most confusing discographies to get a grip on, I’ll post a beginner’s guide sometime in the future, as ‘ol Pus has a tendency to just constantly reissue the same songs under different record titles.
5. Terveet Kadet - Message 12″ (Test Press). More specifically this is a release that only made it to the test press stage as a 12″. Meaning there were 20 made, and I don’t know how many are accounted for. This is true collector-scum bait. The kind of thing you could con the right someone to jump off the empire state building for.