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Fear Love, Not Variants

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:07:00 +0000

HUGE piece to the Exit/Wreck-age puzzle. Yuppicide - Fear Love on Clear Green. Grabbed this off of the german ebay site for way too much money. It was worth it though.

I already had the clear light brown version of this. Well it suppose to be clear brown, but in each of these three pictures the same record looks completely different.

Now the list I have from Wreck-age says 550 on multi color, no specifics. I only know of these 2 colors, and of course black. But really I have no idea what else is out there. If anyone has any other colors than these two let me know.

Let's KickStarts This

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:41:00 +0000

A couple months back I went to the Ink and Lead - Sister Kisser split 12 release show. The opening band Kickstarts was from Valley Stream and peaked my interest when I heard they had members of Kill Your Idols and The Causalities. One thing I really love about these guys is they don't seem to give a shit. Let me explain. When I saw these guys live they killed it. They were loud and fast and super energetic. They did like 4 songs and I was totally into it. Then out of no where some dude shows up with a guitar case, rips the thing open, wings the case like a bottle cap across the stage, and goes and plugs in. WHAT!? This is the other guitarist?! HA no way! Turns out the guy was stuck in traffic and didn't make it in time. They played as a 3 piece and I tell ya, I didn't even realize they were missing anything. They're punk, and who gives a shit, and I'm down with that. The singer is Rick, bass player for The Causalities. A band that I have serious respect for. Those guys have been really incredible, for a really long time.

So after I saw them, I did a little research and found out they had a 4 song 12" on KOI Records. 4 different colors. Pretty limited quantities. So I ordered a bunch.

If you like the punk hardcore mix, I'd check them out. They have a preview of their 4 song 12 on their myspace page

The Landlord of Bloomington

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:14:00 +0000

Recently I added to my Dead Broke Records collection by picking up the Landlord S/T Test Press. This is a weird grunge punk indie whatever type band. I think I'm pretty down with their sound. It's different and out there and I've really been looking for different now a days.

This set is almost complete. From what I hear there's a very rare yellow starburst type variant floating around. Once I can find it, I think I'll call it quits on the Landlord 7.

Also I need to do a big update on my current DBR collection. It's real solid right now. I'm missing maybe 2 test presses. And probably 5 or 6 color variants. Should be a pretty sick picture.

Landlord on Myspace

H2O - The Collection....it's not complete

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:07:00 +0000

The other day someone posted a thread on Vinyl Collective about H2O and what was involved in collecting everything they put out on vinyl. I was about to leave to go get some lunch with Tom, but I thought it would cool to put everything I have together real quick, snap a picture, and post it. I also thought it would be a great excuse to get a picture for a blog post.

So here it is. My current H2O Collection. I think it's the best out there, although I'm not totally sure.

What I know for sure I'm missing:

Everready on Blue, and Pink. Demo on Clear and Purple. Nothing to Prove on Blue and White. White is easy, and Blue I would have had, but ebay froze when my brother tried to bid on it for me. Although he could have been sleeping and just lied. Then some misc on black and Japan presses that I'm not worried about at all. It's really just the colored ones that have me slightly perplexed. Especially the Pink Everready which I didn't know existed until someone with a pretty nice collection of his own, replied to that VC thread.

Yuppicide Isn't Dead Yet! Least not for me.

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:19:00 +0000

One of my favorite bands of all time is Yuppicide. I still remember where I was when I first decided I needed to check them out. The year was 1995 and I was in Port Jeff with a buddy of mine. We were going to hit the curbs by the statue of Thomas Jefferson. When we got there, there was a sticker stuck to the wax. That sticker said Yuppicide. I thought to myself, "So skaters like this band. Interesting. I better go see them." Here I am 15 years later still obsessed with their music. Still listening to it at least once a week.

Let's do this. Yuppicide - Dead Man Walking - Test Press. The quest continues to get every single Exit/Wreckage release including test presses. It's an impossible goal. It's almost stupid to even say that's what I'm trying to do. People think collecting dischord or revelation is tough. Try collecting a label that barely anyone gives a shit about, let alone collects and saves. I don't even want to get into the retarded pressing practices of this label. I mean what kind of label needs to press 6250 copies of Madball - Droppin Many Suckers on black. Then decides they only need to press 250 in maroon?! I mean seriously, that's just fucking evil.

Been trying to pry this off a dude on HYE for over a year now. Toughest guy to get to return emails or offers. I pleaded with him to return my emails. I even had other people trying to make 3 way trades with this guy. Nothing doing. Then one day, right out of the blue, he posted his entire list for sale on PoisonFree and I nearly had a heart attack. So I injected a few hundred bucks into the german economy, and in return I got myself a pile of records needed to help clean up my Exit/Wreck-age colored collection. Incredibly, I'm still missing a few of the 7s. But on the other hand, I have variants of colors no one knew existed. So that's a pretty cool consolation prize. One thing a lot of people don't realize about Exit/Wreckage is they never cleaned the machine between presses. So there's always a few weird mixed color transition type records available for each release. Those are the real fun ones to find.

This guy even had a sleeve for the test. Must have gotten it straight from the label. Not many people put the test press in a sleeve back then. In fact, no one did.

This is a big score. These sleeves are complete junk and didn't last very long. The one I have for my pink copy is pretty beat up as well.

One day, when I feel up to it, I'll pull out all my E/W stuff and take a picture. Maybe after I track down the few 7s I need. I feel like I'm not only battling the person with the records I want, but also time. With a label like Dischord or Revelation, time is almost a non factor. You know people will always collect them, or at least save them because of their value. But with E/W, a lot of people bought them just to buy them, not to collect them. Which means they don't care enough to keep track of them. And it goes even further then that. E/W had a crazy distribution deal with lumberjack. Shits all over the globe. So add up all that and you get one of the hardest collectible labels to collect. Because really, if you think about it, this is a collectible label. They knew what they were doing. Madball, 6250 in black, 250 in maroon. Even Dead Man Walking was 550 pink 1650 black. Those are collectible numbers for a non collectible label. Bad combination for collectors....if that makes any sense.

Whoa...I Got a Blog Too?!

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:53:00 +0000

Man I tell ya my life is way too busy. I need to either stop taking on big projects, or I need to stop sleeping the 4 hours I usually get a night. Luckily in between designing Clinton Park, working on LP, and hanging with the girlfriend, I've managed to pick up a few records. Well more than a few, but let's just start with these and I'll working on adding one item to that list of duties, keeping up with this blog! Damn I'm lazy.

The singer of KYI, Andy, was selling his whole collection through a third party guy on ebay. I picked up a bunch of stuff. Let's do a couple.

Kill Your Idols S/T - Tattoo Press 8/50 - For a guy that prides himself on his Long Island record collection, I'm really slacking in the Kill Your Idols department. I have a bunch of releases, but not many of the really rare ones. Here's the tattoo press. Only given out to people with a KYI tattoo....yeah they made 50 of them. That's ridiculous. I have no right to own this record, but maybe one day.

Kill Your Idols - The Skinnier Years - White #101/111
Kill Your Idols - The Skinnier Years - Test Press #7/13

Here's another couple hard to find releases that I grabbed from Andy's auctions. Pretty happy to have these two. One of the reasons I was really terrified about starting to collect KYI records was because it's just never fucking endless. They make a million damn variants and they have a million damn albums. Luckily, they're all incredible!

X Swatch Maxi

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:35:00 +0000

I know it's been a while since I posted, but I promise you, I haven't been sleeping till noon and drinking the nights away. My proof is below.

About 3 months ago someone listed an X Swatch Maxi on ebay and I nearly shit myself. They never made an X Swatch Maxi. I read the description very closely and realized that the person selling it, made it. He took a black Maxi, one that looked exactly like the X Swatch, and just added a custom face. The pictures looked great. I was really torn. I wanted this thing bad, but I thought there was just no way I would bid enough to win it. Usually when I want something, I win it. But this time I was like, "Eh what am I going to do drop 600 bucks on a clock!?" So I didn't bid. I just watched the seconds tick away. And imagine my embarrassment when the damn thing ended at less than $250. Wow was I pissed. So here I am 3 months later and for some reason I searched for X Swatch on ebay. I never do that. I don't really have any interest in owning an X Swatch. I don't wear watches. I guess it was fate though, cause when I searched for X Swatch that day another X Swatch Maxi popped up. I thought it was the same one being re-listed, but it wasn't. It was another one built by the person who built the original one I didn't bid on. Well I bid on this one. 275 bucks later I was putting this baby together and hanging it on my wall. The face looks great. No idea how he made it. And I'm not opening it to find out.

Heads Vs Breakers - Finished

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:36:00 +0000

Heads Vs Breakers released one full length album called Apathy is the New Black. It's incredible. Is it in my top 25 albums ever...I think it could be. The last time I saw them was early 2000 and something. Can't wait for a reunion.

I recently completed the collection. It took some serious detective work, a bunch of cash, and a whole lot of luck. I think this could be my most satisfying LP collection. It's finished, and I know it. That really feels good.

Ebay's Little Nov. 21st Search Issue

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +0000

If you haven't heard already Ebay had a little search issue on Nov 21st. Here's their Announcement. It's a very interesting problem for both the seller and the bidder. A seller can relist the item if they choose to, but it doesn't guarantee a higher sale price. Why? Because some of the people that bid on the item when it was originally up, may not realize the item is up again, and that they have another shot at it. Also what about the winner of the item? He won it, but the seller is telling him too bad, I'm relisting it cause of ebay. It's a lose lose situation for ebay. No matter what, they look bad for something that, yes is their fault, but is really just something that could happen to any site, including LP.

Here's an interesting test case for the November 21st search problem. Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves - Test Press. It went for 526.00, but the seller relisted it. I'm extremely anxious to see what happens here. The item is either going to go for more or less, that's obvious. But the less obvious result will be who'll win it? Will the seller be complaining to ebay if it goes for less? Or will the winner be complaining if he won the last one and is now paying more? Damn I love this stuff!

And here's a Link to the current Rancid auction

My New Setup

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:31:00 +0000

If you're not aware, I moved down the block to a bigger place. Tom also moved with me. The new place is pretty nice and once it's totally decked out I will get some photos and post them. But basically the idea was Tom and I moving in together would make LP work a lot easier. Sooooo since I got a whole new place with a shit ton of room, I had a chance to set things up the way I wanted too.

I picked up another 2 x 4 Expedit(before they lowered the price.) I also grabbed a Lack Unit which I realized about 3 weeks ago was perfect for 7"s. The setup is below..

Now for anyone that is thinking of trying to do this, I will recommend something. Buy a 1 x 5 Expedit instead. Especially if you don't have over say 200 LPs. The 1 x 5 and the Lack are the same length and depth. They will look better together I think. If I had to do it over again I would probably get (2) 1 x 5 and the Lack. Truthfully I'll probably end up having to change the whole setup in 6 months anyway. I've basically filled up the Lack, and I have LPs downstairs in Tom's Expedit with about half of my architectural books. Those are Tom's records on the top left, mine are bottom left.

The other half of my books are in my room in my final Expedit. Which is next to my bed...yes my bed. I've slept on a couch for the past 3 years. I work a lot, so I try to consider night sleeping like naps. Yeah it sucks...

As you can see I just finished my setup and I'm already screwed. I love the Expedit shelving units, but they're only good for LPs. You still need something for 7s. I think the Lack units are good as well, but.....blllaaaahhhh. I just wish I could find an all in one unit for 12s and 7s. Until then, Ikea really does have the best shelves for the money and ease of compatibility.

p.s. I'm thinking in december I want to do "my best 5 record purchases of the past decade" blog entries, just to round out the first decade of the 21st century. Probably do 5 separate posts. I don't think I could swing 10 posts in one month. I just don't think I have the time. If anyone wants to do these with me, just let me know when you're going to do it, and we can coordinate the attack. Get at me on LP or comment here. Thanks!

Need More Room

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:16:00 +0000

So today I bought my 3rd shelving unit. I now have 2 2x4 expedits and a 1x4 Flak unit. I'm using that for 7"s. I'll post some pictures when I get the thing together. It matches a 2x4 expedit in depth and length almost exactly. So putting one on top of the other works well. More info to come.

You're Not The Star! but you're still pretty cool

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:00 +0000

All I was trying to do was talk about a few records I picked up the other week. Napoleon wasn't having any of that though.

Here's the On Vital record. I think I said record release show in the video, but it's the first show release. I guess that's the same thing though.

This is the Indecision/Shai Hulud on green out of 250...I think it's out of 250. I'll try and get another collection photo up soon.
Edit - Jesus christ, no wonder I always thought there was a blue and a green made of this record. Look at the pictures! They look totally different. That's amazing haha!

And the 39/Smooth Test Press from Green Day. I'm not a huge Green Day fan, but I did spend a lot of time during my youth in Berkeley Ca. So of course I grew up I listening to Kerplunk and this LP. It's definitely an incredible score to find this record for so cheap.

Vinyl and PJs

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:42:00 +0000

Pretty rough night last night, so I'm already in my sweatpants and contemplating bed. But here's a few things I got over the past week.

Too Many Boxes

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:49:00 +0000

It's been a while since I made a video post. I moved(my bro Tom and I got a place together) so I got boxes everywhere. My nice leather lazyboy isn't setup yet, and limited pressing has been taking up a lot of my spare time. So here's my first one in the new place. It's really just a run through of a few recent things that came in.

Movielife - The Collection...no, seriously this time

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:18:00 +0000

I saw someone asking for a Movielife collection on the VC collection thread. So I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone. Here's my newly finished ML collection. I was missing one record for a million years. The 40 Hour Train Ride to Penn on White. The pressing info on this thing is sort of strange. I don't fully know what the deal is but I think there were 1000 pressed, 900 green and 100 White. Paid a pretty penny for this thing but it was worth it. This collection, I believe, is done. If anyone sees something I'm missing please let me know. Nobody likes a hole.....well, you know what I mean!

Look Up - New URL

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:37:00 +0000

Not sure if you've noticed but I have a new URL. The explanation is here.

Orange 9mm - The Collection is...DAMNIT!

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:47:00 +0000

So as I was saying in my last video blog, The Orange 9mm Collection is complete. Well I just got everything together and when I looked on the back of the DEA Records 7" it showed me just how wrong I was. I'm missing 3 colors. Stupid DEA Records and their 5 million pressings of one stupid 7". These characters got it in for me. Especially with the VOD stuff. I don't even want to get into how many of those I'm missing. Well I thought I would post it anyway cause I've never put it together.

Here's what I'm missing....Damn it hurts so good.

I'm going to start putting together some of my complete and almost complete collections for posts before the end of the year. My MovieLife collection just got a huge shot in the arm yesterday. What is it you say? Ohhhh You'll see. Later!

Episode Three - Best Pressing

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:17:00 +0000

During this episode I talk about my 4 Levels of Test Presses. I also discuss something that happened the other night where I won a test press for 28 bucks and then the colored version out of 218 ended 45 minutes later for 162.50. It makes no sense, I know. I also talked about how Juan was asking to see my list and that I don't have one. The main reason is because there's nothing to list. I have basically every LI record that came out pre 2001 and a bunch of NYHC. You'd be surprised at how many bands LI had in the 90s though. But that's really it. What I do have, and I'll straight up admit to it, is an obsession with buying test presses. I talk about a few that I've bought recently and the stories behind them. I actually really enjoyed making this episode. It was definitely fun talking about why I love test presses.

Episode Three

Notes and Spoilers:

If I get any info on whether or not the winner paid I'll pass it along.

2 Weeks of Pure Insanity

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Like I was saying a few weeks back, I was getting a ton of stuff in. So I figured instead of dragging this out for months, I thought I would make one giant post with a ton of pictures and a super long video. That video is below. Get some popcorn, put your feet up, relax, and watch. Then below that I put pictures of each record from the video.

Here's the DeadBrokeRecords preorder of Bad Blood Revival, The Brass, and Landlord. The Bad Blood release is awesome cause truthfully you can't damage it. It's an old record sleeve, cut in half, and painted green. They put sticker labels on the front and back. Even if you bent this thing you could probably just tell people it was some sort of a variant...

Long Island band Backup Plan. This is their album Dearest Whomever on New Day Rising.

Instilled - Unfinished Business 7" set w/ #7 of 100 on Blue.

This is the Kid Dynamite Cover Discography I found out about on VinylVlog Season 2 Ep 1. BlackNumbers put this out. This particular package is all 3 colors and the test. Mine is 18 of 20. All proceeds from this package go to charity which is really cool.

My friend Brian picked this stuff up for me from Moneen. I also grabbed a sealed Lifetime S/T on FBR from him cause he had an extra.

This is the Orange 9mm Driver LP on East/West and pressed in Germany. This is the last release I need to complete my Orange 9mm collection. It's a log time coming and in my next post I will put together the collection for a picture. Should be fun.

ON - Double Vision from React. The picture has the Reaper release in it as well. Next to that is a picture of the silk screened cardboard stiffener that came with the pre-orders from React.

On The Might of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want To Be. Great LI Indie band from the late 90s early 00s. This is their second release on Traffic Violation Record which is a now defunct LI label

This is the Indecision Tour 7 that I traded marcus for. If you watched the video you saw I had some issues figuring out who was on the cover. This particular release had 5 different covers with a different band member on each one. They were also numbered. I never really inspected this 7" when it came in, but after I made the video I did. It says on the inside that it's Justin, which makes sense cause this is number #43. I should have realized that he would be the first cover. Plus it's a Damaged ripoff. So that also kinda makes sense seeing as Henry Rollins was punching the glass in that one, and he was the king of Black Flag. Sometimes it's hard to put the pieces together when under the pressure of the camera. Makes sense now though.

The 2 rarest VOD records around....I think. There might be a Loyal To None split variation that I don't know about. If anyone knows of one besides the blue cover on black let me know. You know now that I think about it, those covers were photo copied paper. That's usually a sure sign that they made different color covers. So who knows. I'm going to put together the full 7" collection at some point. Do a big post on everything I have from VOD. Should be cool cause I've never laid that stuff out.

These are the 2 that I didn't put in the video and 2 that I did. the 2 that I didn't was 25 Ta Life's FLC. I think this is 25s best release. Rick's voice is strange cause it can change on basically every single record they put out. It's almost like everything they ever did was recorded in one year when Rick was 14 going on 15. On this one it's really the best it's ever sounded. Then there's Bloodline, not to be confused with NJ Bloodline

And here it is, the Neglect 4 Years of Hate Discography on Gain Ground, pressed in Germany, never even knew this existed on vinyl until 4 weeks ago. So incredibly excited to get this thing. Had to buy it from japan, but the price was so right at like 13 bucks. Plus I bought the O9 Driver LP from the same guy, so I combined shipping. Great deal. Wonder what this thing would go for on ebay if it was sold by a US seller. Neglect is not really a desirable pickup unless it's on Wreck-age. Then you have 2 ways to drive the price, the rarity of the Neglect record and the rarity of the Wreck-age release. The different labels are really a cool little touch. I also put some pictures of the Hatebreed/Neglect split on Red too.

Well that's it, I hope you enjoyed it. It took me about 6 hours to do this post...no I'm not kidding. 6 freaking hours.

Unbroken Triple - The Best New Purchase of the Year

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:29:00 +0000

It's nearly impossible to get a good picture of this thing when you and your camera both suck at taking pictures. Check out Doug's WeWillBuryYou blog for the post that really convinced me to buy it. It's funny, as soon as I saw this thing on his blog, I went to every single message board I could think of to see if someone had it available for purchase. Luckily I found it on Matt's List for sale at the Deadformat board. I have to say, message boards have been saving my ass lately. Bought some really cool stuff on boards recently. This is easily my most favorite new record purchase of the year. When I hold this thing I feel like I'm holding a piece of history. Indecision Records say they're going to repress it, which I'm pretty much hating right now. But maybe I'll get lucky and it will be a completely different packaging, and I can grab another one.

P.S. If anyone knows anything at all about that Rhythm Collision 7" please let me know. Thanks

Episode Two - It's a Conspiracy

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:06:00 +0000

Brand New Pre-Order, Kid Dynamite Test Press, ebay iPhone app, and a couple more things. Check below for the show notes. Thanks!
Episode Two

Brand New Pre-Order at Interpunk

Kid Dynamite Cover Discography on Black Numbers

Kid Dynamite Test Press Results

Jeff's Misfits Collection Scroll to the bottom WTF!?

This Buy It Now Was No Cause For Alarm

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0000

So as you can see I switched to Vimeo. Why you ask? Cause this video is 11:30 minutes long and I spent 30 minutes uploading it to youtube, then 10 minutes processing it, thhhheeeennn it told me it was too big. Yeah so now I'm on vimeo. And I hope it works out here cause I like the quality better. They just use to have issues with the iPhone video format. Which hopefully they've rectified.

New York's Hardest Vol. 1 4x7"

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:52:00 +0000

God damn I love this comp. This is probably my most favorite comp ever. Definitely top 3. I mean I love the 516 comp from 96 and the Blood Sweat Tears comp that General George put out a while back. But this one, wow, just incredible. You know what, it comes on vinyl, so it's the best. The others just came out on CD.

NY-Hardest Thanks to PunkHColdschooll for this upload!

The Trouble With Video...

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Not really the trouble per-say, just sort of an issue. I wanted to post something tonight, but was already in my sweatpants, tshirt and priming myself for some twilight zone. So to post I gotta get out of my PJs and into some real cloths. Eh didn't feel like it tonight. So I thought I would post the first ever photo of my indecision/MPB collection WITH the 7"s. I put this together once before without the 7s cause truthfully, it's really just an LP collection. I never really pursued the 7"s. But now that I'm basically done with the 12s, I'm out for it all!

So what's funny about this is you don't see either picture disk. Yeah I don't collect picture disks. They annoy the hell out of me. But I do have the Indecision - Most Precious Blood test press, which was only pressed on a picture disk out of 1000 I think. So yeah I wouldn't turn down the test of a picture disk...that's just retarded.

The non 7"s I'm missing is the green and blue version of the Indecision/SH split on 10". Then Unorthodox on White out of 10 which I want more than anything, even more then the release the cure test. And then there might be some variant of the MPB-Nothing in Vain, although I'm not quite sure. Indecision/MPB have a lot of vinyl out. It's really the only band I love that has ever put out a lot of vinyl. I'm really happy for that. My bank account on the other hand....

Large Photo

Earth Crisis and Dahlia Seed...wait, what did he say?

nmango@gmail.com (Nick Mango) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:28:00 +0000