Half Off Is Alive

I've picked up a few releases from It's Alive Records the past few years. Most of the records that I have bought have been recent repressings of older releases, but most are done with so much care and attention that they're much nicer than the original pressings, being packed with extras like flyers, posters and stickers. And as often happens, once I pick up a couple, I start looking around at what else there is, and it then becomes a collection. So recently I was looking around trying to figure out what I was missing, and after picking up a couple more at the end of last year I think I'm getting close to having a full set.

This Half Off 7" was originally released in 1992. Or at least, the first pressing was. This green vinyl version is a second pressing, but I'm not sure how much later it came out after the original pressing.

This record is actually It's Alive Records number 1, and it's a slightly odd one. The A side contains cover songs (with Black Flag's 'Six Pack' and Wire's '12XU'), and the B side contains a couple of Half Off songs recorded live. So all in all, a kind of pointless record, although as is the case with all the records on this label, it sure looks nice.

One thing that's really cool about this 7" is that one of the inserts contains the pressing information for all of their releases. I have 4 colours of their 'Shoot Guns..' 7" and never knew the pressing info until now.