The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Sixteen Tons Title: 4 Songs  Label: No Blow Records Format: 7" Catalog Number: NBLW 02 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1989 Sell Price: $3.71 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 9/4/24 M/NM $7.17 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.80 Average: $4.25 High: $9.99 Current Low Price: $3.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 86/17 Where Sold:  Girard, PA Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: $3.99 Newbury Comics Boston circa 1989 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See  It Go: No Engineered by Steve Albini, SIxteen Tons sound a bit like that OTHER top tier Chicago influence of the time, Naked Raygun.  The started in Charleston, IL in 1989 and ended in Champaign, IL circa 1993.  I don't know how I knew to buy this at the time.  Albini was an inconsequential unnoticed byline.  I might have bought it at random or maybe I read something about it in Maximum R...

  Artist: Jackknife Title: "San Francisco Beauty Queen" Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry Format: 2X7" Catalog Number: SFTRI 187 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1992 Sell Price: $4.38 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/11/24 NM/NM $2.11 Low: $1.95 Median: $4.37 Average: $5.35 High: $12.50 Current Low Price: $2.08 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 28 Have/Want: 182/31 Where Sold:  Girard, PA Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: $8.99 Mailorder Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See  It Go: Yes Jackknife on this double went from a Pussy Galore INSPIRED band to straight out coving them and taking their thematic concept for this double single.  Pussy Galore covered Exile On Main Street, Jackknife nicks the cover of Exile for the artwork. None of this can be streamed, but there is a great original song that sounds out of the Jon Spencer catalog, "Lickin' Chicken." Everyo...

  Artist: Jackknife Title: Flat Top Fucker A: Stuck Up Art Bitch B: Flat Top Fucker /Go Johnny Go! Label: IMP Records Format: 7" Catalog Number: n/a Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1991 Sell Price: $4.38 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 2/11/25 VG+/VG+ $4.00 Low: $2.49 Median: $5.00 Average: $5.90 High: $13.16 Current Low Price: $6.33 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs Have/Want: 97/28 Where Sold:  Girard, PA Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: $3.99 In Your Ear sticker still on it from Allston, MA Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: Yes Los Angeles noise rock trio debuted with this single (my first anyway, Grunen Rocks has this as second on the discography ) on Portland's IMP Records, home of Calamity Jane, The Spinanes, Crackerback, Mudwimmin and Oswald Five-O.  They moved on to the better distributed Sympathy For The Record Industry shortly after that. As fo...

  Artist: Terentel Title: The Order Of Things Label: Neurot Format: CD Catalog Number: NR010 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2001 Sell Price: $4.82 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG/VG Discogs Last Sold: 1/8/25 NM/VG+ $6.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $5.97 Average: $7.04 High: $15.79 Current Low Price: $4.98 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 312/57 Where Sold:  Leesburg, VA Time It Took  To Sell:  12 years Where and When  Bought: dollar bin somewhere in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C Sad To See  It Go: No Occasionally a CD sells, and I have no recollection of acquiring it.  Since this came out in 2001, I'm guessing one of two places.  Either I saw it in the dollar pile on the wall at Kim's Underground on St. Marks and pulled it because it was on Neurot which had Neurosis, Isis and most importantly Oxbow.  The other possibility is I heard it on 3WK, which I was listening to around that time and mail ...

  Artist: The Pleasure Fuckers Title:  Get Away b/w The Saint Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry Format: 7" Catalog Number: SFRTI 92 Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1990 Brown Marbled Sell Price: $6.57 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 10/24/23 M/NM $9.37 Low: $5.26 Median: $9.42 Average: $10.10 High: $19.99  Current Low Price: $6.32 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 95/49 Where Sold:  Girard, PA Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: dollar bin somewhere in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No Garage punk rock from Madrid, Spain.  I thought this was an average genre record with a vocal song on the A-side and an instrumental on the B.  The A-side, "Get Away" made itself interesting with a spoken word bar stool rant.  "I ain't drinkin' no 7-Up!  Understand me???  Motherfucker!"  The B-side is a good rocki...

  Artist: Pain Teens Title: Death Row Eyes b/w The Smell Label: Sub Pop Format: 7" Catalog Number: SP148 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year  of Edition: US May 1992 Sub Pop Singles Club Aqua Vinyl 210 color pressing of 3,285 total press Sell Price: $7.45 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 4/4/24 NM/VG+ $10.00 Low: $5.00 VG+/VG+ 4/20/22 Median: $9.97 Average: $10.30 High: $20.00 NM/NM 9/4/10 Current  low price:  $10.32 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 94/98 Where Sold:  Girard, PA Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: Sub Pop Singles Club Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No This Pain Teens 7" came as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club that I subscribed to from 1990 or so til about 1993.  They would arrive 2 in a shot and this one was dated May 1992.I can't remember if it was paired with Mecca Normal's split with Kreviss or Rocket From The Crypt, but I can sa...