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Well if you’re a collector of early Revelation items you know this is one of the top 5 rarities - Gorilla Biscuits 7″ w/ Todd Youth B-Side label. I’d assume there was an excess of A-Side labels, and so the plant just ran them out with leftover War Zone B-Side labels on the vinyl. I thought these were numbered somewhere but I can’t see it in any of the pictures. The dude selling this tries to make something of the fact that the lettering is purple. There’s really no way to verify what’s more rare though. These were probably the last copies from this pressing sold, and I’d imagine they were just slipped into whatever sleeves were around at the time.
I used to really love this record, now I’d probably turn it off after the first 2 songs. Most of it is kinda poppy which is a good gateway to hardcore for a lot of kids, but the first 2 songs have a pretty straight up NYHC sound like Token Entry or, actually the first War Zone lp. It’s cooler than Start Today (the GB lp) anyway, which at one time was probably my favorite record, and now only makes me cringe. That thing pretty much serves as the blueprint for over-polished octave laden pop-punk/HC hybrids, although I guess it’s directly descended from the first Dag Nasty lp. I’d rather just hear Break Down The Walls… or Breakdown “both demos”… or Break On Through (To The Other Side), honestly. I’m still straight edge though which is more than I can say for some.
If you’re into this, frankly the Buy-It-Now price is probably worth it. These were breaking $300 US a couple years ago, and given the weak state of the dollar, the fact that it’s driving up the price of nearly all hardcore records, and that Gorilla Biscuits are one of the most popular straight edge bands ever, it’d be a sound investment.
You realize that BIN is in GBP not USD, right? That’s like $580 US. That doesn’t sound like a “worth it” price to me.
people keep telling me this. I should have been more clear. I know that 300 GPB = a little less than 600 USD. my point is:
* given the climate for buying USHC records from the 80’s right now
*the strength of the dollar (or weakness I guess)
*the fact that this was over $300 USD in value 2-4 years ago
*the fact that gorilla biscuits are one of the most commonly collected SXE HC bands
*the extreme rarity of this item
compound together to make this a sound investment if you’re determined to own this record as part of your rev/GB collection. Let’s face it, this 7″ pops up a couple times a year AT MOST, and it would probably sell for $400 USD+ easily if there was no reserve or buy it now. How long before $500-600 becomes going rate on this. It’s not coming down unless someone finds a long lost box of them (not happening). If the price is only going up, and you want it bad enough, and you only get a few chances to buy it, you might as well just take the plunge. By the next time another pops up, it could already be at the $500-$600 level anyway. Consider the premium price a convenience fee.
I think most of these came to the UK, as I recall these were the first ones that arrived in the UK of the yellow vinyl press, and they all had purple logo sleeves. Volume records in Newcatle had six copies and they sold all of them the same day, we had no idea it was rare at the time. I bought a copy myself, Frazer Robinson the singer of False Face bought one, and a guy we used to Skateboard with called Craig Eden bought one too. After I realised it was a rarity I bought the one from Frazer for about £10 so I had 2 copies for a while, I don’t see Craig these days but maybe he still has his copy, he was never really all that into hardcore so he probably doesn’t know it’s woth anything.
They definately weren’t numbered though, when I was touring with Quicksand I asked Jordan about it and he didn’t even know it existed, this was in March of 1991.
I traded both of my copies years ago for much better and more valuable records and I’ve never looked back.