In the latter half of this year I rediscovered the band Gas Huffer. I used to own a couple of their records in the early 90s, after they came to my attention via a split 7" with Mudhoney. Well, this year due to me collecting Sub Pop releases, I went back to them, and then ended up buying two of their later LPs that I had never heard before, which made me absolutely fall in love with them. I feel like such a dick for making a decision that they weren't cool and selling the records that I used to have. But these later records were great, and I spent a lot of time with them, and I am absolutely down to listen to more at some point when the time comes.
Well, sometimes things just kinda work out, and I ended up meeting a friend in the States a few weeks ago who I had previously traded with, and I became aware that he had a test press of one of the two Gas Huffer albums that I picked up earlier in the year that he was looking to let go. So I did the right thing and offered to take it home with me.
This is the band's 4th album, 'The Inhuman Ordeal Of Special Agent Gas Huffer', which was released by Epitaph Records in 1996. Here's a photo of it next to the regular cover.
I'm really stoked about this one, not least because it's an Epitaph Records test press, which are generally pretty rare. For a minute I thought that this was the first Epitaph test press that I own, but then I remembered that I have a test of the second Down By Law LP too. That one, however, doesn't have the Rainbo Records labels, which this one does, and which makes it even cooler.
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