Here's a great example of a record that is perfect for collectors but still pretty much completely pointless. This is a lathe cut, square 7" which contains one song from a band called Digh Down.
There's an interesting backstory behind this record. The band is made up of Ron Brotherhood on vocals, Dave Larson (owner of Excursion Records) on bass, and a couple of dudes from Undertow. Apparently the band was originally supposed to record a 12" for Indecision Records way back in the early 90s, but for some unknown reason it never happened.
The band recorded one song for a compilation that was released by Excursion Records called 'Universal Choking Sign'. That compilation came out in 1994 and featured a bunch of mainly north west bands including Undertow, Sparkmarker, Strain Brand New Unit amongst others. This then ended up being Digh Down's only ever recorded output.
This lathe cut 7" features that one song from the comp packaged in a sleeve showing photos of the band. Given I already have the comp, there was absolutely no need to buy this, right? Kinda funny to me though that if you have never heard this song before, it would be cheaper to buy the compilation LP than to buy this one song 7". Well, if you live in Germany that is, as there seem to be no US sellers of the comp for some reason.
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