Road Trip! Part II (The LPs)

My last post was about my road trip to the south coast. I picked up a lot of stuff and spent a lot of money. So to continue with that theme, here are the LPs I came away with...

First up, an LP by Abhinanda. I never liked this band on principle. I saw them play with 108 in 1995 and they interrupted 108's set to hold a pillow fight. That would usually be alright in the context of rock n roll, but in this instance I found it annoying because the venue only had about ten people there and it pretty much caused 108 to abandon playing. Disrespectful in my opinion. So I never listened to Abhinanda after this. But a couple of years ago I asked Pete from Bane what he had been listening to, and he surprised me by saying Abhinanda. So I figured I would trust his judgement and maybe give them a chance.

The next one I bought just for the vinyl itself. The Acrid / Left For Dead saw-shaped thing. Like some kind of retard, I never actually heard this before, but I know it's gonna rock hard... but even if it doesn't, I'm gonna want to keep this just because it looks cool:

This may sound funny to the me of 1994, but I was totally stoked to pick up the second Bob Tilton LP. I didn't like this band when they were about, but after they broke up I got into them. Never heard the second LP though, and this copy is in mint condition:

Next, a Cro-mags LP. Not in great condition, but it was cheap.

As I mentioned in the previous post about 7"s, I decided to check out Econochrist for the first time. Here's another record of theirs I grabbed:

This next one is an album that I remember flicking past & not being interested in many times in the early 90s - the second Face Value LP. I passed on it simply because I thought the cover sucked. I figure its now time to give it a chance.

This next one is interesting. A Fire Party LP. I never heard Fire Party, but I would say that on the whole I have been a latecomer to some of the later Dischord releases, so figured I would give this band a chance.

Dude also had a test press of the same Fire Party LP, so I figured I might as well pick that up too:

Next is the first Lifetime LP. This is one of the only New Age releases from the 90s that I never owned, which was mainly due to the fact that it was never pressed on colour vinyl. I just figured I needed to pick it up to fill a whole in my New Age collection.

I used to love The Metroschifter. I own all their records. I own two versions of their first LP. In fact, that's not true - I now own three versions. This is the Conversion Records re-press that came out in the mid-late 90s. Again, one that I passed on when it came out, but I would now like to add it to the collection for the sake of completeness.

Here's an interesting one. The Starkweather 'Into The Wire' LP on pink. I have to say, I like pink records. Not sure what that says about me to be honest. Anyway, pink is second press. First press was purple, which I got from the label back when it came out. I added this album to my ipod recently and enjoyed listening to it again for the first time in a long time.

I also picked up a copy of the Supertouch LP. Previously, the only version I had of this was a test press. So I thought it was only right that I also add a regular version to my collection. I would also like to point out that this was the most difficult record to photograph of any record ever, because of the black and super glossy cover.

Next, a white vinyl copy of the Up Front 'Spirit' LP. I used to own this years ago but traded it away. It's cool to get it back, although I am disappointed that the inner sleeve on this copy has been repaired using sticky tape. Damnit. Oh well, it was cheap I suppose...

At this point I would just like to make a statement - I don't like Warzone. Or War Zone (I have never been sure which is most correct - does it have a space or not? Juding from the records, the band themselves could never make their mind up). I maybe like two songs, the rest I'm just not into. I did, however, always WANT to like Warzone. Something about them tells me I should like them even though I don't. Anyway, considering I don't like them, its funny that I bought three of their albums. The first one:

The second one:

And some sketchy one on Victory where they do covers of Antidote and Youth Of Today:

And finally, a record that I chose to not buy when it came out because I thought it was pointless - the Anti Matter comp:

Clearly I was an idiot to never buy this. It contains the best Supertouch song of all time.

Well there you go. That's Part 2 done with. Next up is (surprisingly) Part 3, which is the items that I picked up that I already own...