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Northern State-Can I Keep This Pen? (2007)

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  Artist: Northern State Title: Can I Keep This Pen? Label: Ipecac Format: CD Catalog Number: IPC92 Year of Release: 2007 Country and Year of Edition: US 2007 Sell Price: $2.99 Sell Date: 6/23/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ deleted library edition, 2 large stickers on cover Discogs Last Sold: 6/9/26 M/M $17.60 Low: $0.16 Median: $1.51 Average: $3.03 High: $17.60 Current low price: $0.51 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 54 Have/Want: 203/19 Where Sold: Indianapolis, IN Time It Took To Sell:  16 years Where and When Bought: internet early aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B- Sad To See It Go: No  The further adventures and group swan song of Hesta Prynn, Spero and Sprout kinda grew on me. This album is a peculiar blend of nursery rhyme chants and (self-described in the opener "Mic Tester") white girl problems circa 2007.  You work so hard to get it done but you are still broke and want to have fun. A Columbia Records contract was in the rear view window and not even ...
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Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

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  Artist: Elton John Title: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Label: DJM Records Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: Y8DJD 1001 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition: UK 1973 Sell Price: $8.57 Sell Date: 6/22/26 Condition: VG/G+ Pro Refurbish Discogs Last Sold: 9/26/25 VG+/P $3.29 Low: $2.62 Median: $2.96 Average: $5.70 High: $14.47 Current low price: $0.94 (UK) G+/no cover Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 34/236 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  2 years Where and When Bought: ebay 8-track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B- Sad To See It Go: No  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has received canonical reverence in the last 30 years or so.  It wasn't really taken as seriously in the 80's or most of the nineties until it was revealed posthumously that Lady Di dug the deep cut "Candle In The Wind."  That made the Marilyn Monroe tribute song her own with rewritten lyrics.  Once that happened, all of the sudden Goodbye was in the "...
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Northern State-All City (2004)

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  Artist: Northern State Title:  All City Label: Columbia Format: CD Catalog Number: CK 90497 Year of Release: 2004 Country and Year of Edition: US 2004 explicit version Sell Price: $2.99 Sell Date: 6/23/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 1/19/26 VG/VG+ $0.94 Low: $0.57 Median: $1.95 Average: $2.30 High: $6.00 Current low price:  $0.53 (Canada) $1.00 (US) Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 148/26 Where Sold: Indianapolis, IN Time It Took To Sell:  16 years Where and When Bought: internet early aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C- Sad To See It Go: No  I completely misheard the best track on this album, "Last Night."  As it was popping up on streaming over the week I thought they were chanting "last night I lost my black book bag" but looking at the lyric booklet now I see that the chorus is "last night I lost my bank book and..."  To the ATM again and again and again.   It totally changes the meaning.  A...
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Oxes-Oxes (2000)

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  Artist: Oxes Title:  Oxes Label: Monitor Format: CD Catalog Number: mon006 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition: US 2000 Sell Price: $3.54 Sell Date: 6/23/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 5/31/26 VG+/VG+ $2.95 Low: $1.99 Median: $3.41 Average: $3.74 High: $10.56 Current low price:  $2.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 11 Have/Want: 253/32 Where Sold: Spring Hills, KS Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: internet early aughts new Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No  I wrote about the follow-up to this a couple years back and managed to give that one an A-.  Today I decided this one is a baseline B+ and I bet if you play them side by side there is very little to differentiate the quality of the two.  It just becomes the mood you are in, how much you like the genre and where it sits in the canon.  Sort've like Jazz. When the clunk of a singular cowbell resonates on "Horses Are OK,"...
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Bread-On The Water (1970)

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  Artist: Bread Title: On The Water Label: Elektra Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: ET8 4076 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition: US 1970 Sell Price: $3.69 Sell Date: 6/21/26 Condition: VG/VG tested start to finish Discogs Last Sold: n/a Low: $3.69 Median: $3.69 Average: $3.69 High: $3.69 Current low price:  n/a Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want: 14/16 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  2 years Where and When Bought: Ebay 8-track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No  "I can't believe I'm going to have to take Bread seriously" I said out loud to particularly no one.  Since this tape sold last week I've had it on my Spotify shuffle I use to familiarize myself with titles like this than outside of the hits I have no reference point. The lead track is actually a strong Mike Nesmith sounding number "Why Do You Keep Me Waiting" complete with fuzz guitar and an instrumental break that sounds downright...
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Bush-Razorblade Suitcase (1996)

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  Artist: Bush Title:  Razorblade Suitcase Label: Trauma/Interscope Format: CD Catalog Number: INTD-90091 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition: US 1996 JVC pressing Sell Price: $2.99 Sell Date: 6/16/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/20/26 VG+/VG+ $3.98 Low: $0.39 Median: $1.73 Average: $2.00 High: $4.40 Current low price:  $0.80 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 105 Have/Want: 3315/121 Where Sold: Huntington Beach, CA Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought:  half.com $0.75 early aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No  Albini did the best he could with Bush.  Cobain's carpet was barely dried when Gavin Rossdale's people hired Steve to create a sonic follow-up to In Utero.  Since the man wasn't alive to do it himself, why not Gavin?  He was dating Courtney Love according to the National Enquirer and/or Page Six around the time this was recorded after all.  Gavin didn't quite have ...
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Jefferson Starship-Freedom At Point Zero (1979)

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  Artist: Jefferson Starship Title: Freedom At Point Zero Label: Grunt Format: LP Catalog Number: BZL1 3452 Year of Release: 1979 Country and Year of Edition: US 1979 Goldisc gatefold cover Sell Price: $5.99 Sell Date: 6/16/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 2/7/26 NM/NM $17.03 Low: $1.00 Median: $4.00 Average: $5.59 High: $17.03 Current low price: $3.25 G+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 421/64 Where Sold: Huntington Beach, CA Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought:  Facebook lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C Sad To See It Go: No  With the inescapable hit "Jane" kicking off the record, there was much unfamiliar corporate rock for me to wade through on Jefferson Starship's Freedom At Point Zero.  It isn't as "corporate" as it seems, as with the once 60's radical Kantner that somehow made hits over 3 decades under different monikers and approaches. This was the start of the Mickey Thomas era on vocals.  Paul Ka...
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