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A rather suspect listing in my opinion here of Black Flag’s Nervous BreakdownE.P. First of all though before I get to that, if you don’t know, this is basically the first record that could be called hard core, in its original press (out of 500). The brick pattern that you see on the cover is what denotes that. Nervous Breakdown is one of the 100 greatest rock and roll songs ever written, of any sub-genre that falls within those boundaries. It feels silly to talk about it. It’s like a Christian talking about Christ, or lately, a middle class college student talking about Barrack Obama (I hear after he ends all wars on the first day, he will walk on water on the second). Maybe on the third day he can pass a law obliterating sketchy ebay sales. See the first thing I noticed is the picture on the sale page is just a little stock jpg you can find from a quick search of google images. Which made me puzzle if it was really a first press with an original sleeve, or if the sleeve has ever been counterfeited. In addition the seller only has a feedback of two, in other words they’re a new seller. For such a marquee listing, there’s also minimal information given, and the typing in all caps, just automatically does not sit well with me (which isn’t really fair). Also they misspelled Nervous as NERVOUSE, but I am also a really bad speller. I am fairly certain the claim of “mint condition” is not going to be up to goldmine grading standards or whatever. So… I guess at best this will probably go a little under the going rate (and who even knows what that is… somewhere between $400-$700?). I would not bid without some kind of paypal insurance, or some way to be sure I could get a full refund. Btw. my friend Bob found one of these buried in the back of some record store last year. It was $10. My other friend found a copy of The Mad “Eyeball” for $5 there a few months before. There truly is no justice in this world, is there?