Mudhoney/Melvins-HIV Groupie Hits-Pack! (1991)

 





Artist: Mudhoney/Melvins

Title: HIV Groupie Hits-Pack!

Mudhoney-Here Comes Sickness/Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More/Chain That Door b/w Melvins-Going Blind

Label: SQ Records

Format: 7"

Cat #: 02

Year of Release: 1991

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 600 pressing

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 11/8/21

Sell Price: $19.99

Discogs Last Sold: 2/20/21 $28.52 NM/NM

Low: $13.00

Median: $19.88

Average: $19.32

High: $28.52

Current low price: $15.86

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6

Have/Want: 155/40

Where Sold: Seattle, WA

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Nuggets Boston $7 sticker still on it early 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go:  No

The grunge wave produced a bunch of lo-fi 7" releases of dubious origin.  Who know if it was the bands or labels themselves.  People like me were hungry for any Mudhoney and Melvins that they could get their hands on.  Demos, 3rd generation cassette dubs from friends, whatever.  It was crucial to have everything.  The LISTENING experience often was secondary to actually having the record, much like classic rock bootlegs that I bought throughout the 80's, but every once in a while you would get a essential recording like Melvins covering Sabbath's "Symptom of the Universe"  split with Mudhoney's "Hate The Police" which I've jacked up to $499.99 in preparation for the $50 copy up on Discogs selling and mine being the only one left.  I don't really wanna sell it, but I'll take 500 for it if some maniac wants to part with that amount of money.

This boot was not of that quality.  The A-side was Mudhoney demos from the Superfuzz Bigmuff era and the B-side Melvins was a live Kiss cover from  San Francisco in 1987,  I had to have it without any thought flipping through the Nuggets new single bin in 1990 or 1991.  The live "Chain That Door" has a little more speed and the demos sound good.    Yes, this is all baseline grunge noise 101 material, but even for being a fanatic of both of these bands, this was bought, played once and filed away.  Maybe it made it to radio once but it was probably buried by some legitimate release as both those bands were in a crucial release cranking heyday at their absolute pre-major label peak of their existence.     

All cuts are classic band standards in a lo-fi presentation.  Even the labels are the classic bootleg masking crediting Mudhoney as The Psycho Surgeons and The Melvins at The Professors. :Even more comedy as the Kiss track is listed as Scorpions "The Sails of Charon."  In-joke compounded by in-joke.

Off to Seattle it went.













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