Another Flex

My journey with Dischord Records has been a long and weird one. For years I was never overly excited by a lot of their catalogue, as the early stuff was before my time (and the records were always expensive to buy), and a lot of the late 80s and early 90s stuff just didn't really excite me. But of course, over time as I have grown older and my tastes have evolved, I have become more interested in most of their catalogue, but still have chunks of it totally unexplored (Beefeater, Circus Lupus to name a couple of examples).

Of the records I am familiar with, I seem to have fallen into a trap of buying colour vinyl repressings, although some I only have one copy of, whereas others I have been sucked into buying additional copies. It's all over the place. I have no rules other than if I like the look of it, I'm probably going to buy it, regardless of how many copies I already have. So here we are with another copy of the 'Flex Your Head' compilation LP that I couldn't turn down.

This yellow vinyl pressing with the new front cover colour scheme came out roughly halfway through last year, and I immediately thought it looked cool, so it was impossible for me to not buy it when it was in my hands in a record shop. Generally I am a big fan of new pressings that have revisions to the cover art, so I love how the front cover has reverted to black, but with the X's now in yellow. The people at Dischord definitely have a much better ability to match the vinyl colour to the cover art than most other record labels.

Even though I didn't want to really get sucked into buying another copy of this record (at least, in theory), it turns out that the last copy of this record that I bought was the red vinyl copy in the red 'XXX' cover, which was somehow almost 15 years ago, in 2010. Once I realised this I kinda felt better. I mean, one copy every 15 years ain't too out of control, right?