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Waylon Jennings-What Goes Around Comes Around (1979)

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  Artist: Waylon Jennings Title: What Goes Around Comes Around Label: RCA Victor Format: LP Cat: AHL1-3493 Year of Release: 1979 Country and Year of Edition: US 1979 Date of Sale: 7/28/23 Sell Price: $3.91 Condition: VG+/VG bottom of cover unglued Discogs Last Sold: 7/19/23 VG+/VG $5.99 Low: $1.99 VG/VG 5/22/23 Median: $4.54 Average: $5.73 High: $12.95 NM/NM Current low price: $3.08 NM/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 136 Have/Want: 3184/136 Where Sold: Charleston, SC Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: can't remember, dollar bin somewhere Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: Yes The cover of What Goes Around Comes Around is one of the most bizarre ever for a major artist.  With the lasers and cut out square photo of Waylon plopped in the middle of it all, one gets the feeling they are probably in for a glitzy "countrypolitan" album along the lines of late 70's Dolly Parton.  Except Waylon looks pasty faced, off kilter and drunk with a

Bevis Frond "Sexorcist" b/w Walking Seeds "Reflections In A Tall Mirror" (1990)

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  Artist: Bevis Frond/Walking Seeds Title: Sexorcist b/w Reflections In A Tall Mirror Label: Clawfist Format: 7" Cat: PIG-1 Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year of Edition: UK 1990 Clawfist Singles Club #1  1,400 pressing Date of Sale: 7/16/23 Sell Price: $5.99 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 2/2/23 NM/VG+ $6.66 Low:$4.00 NM/NM Median: $5.99 Average: $6.68 High: $12.00 Current low price: $5.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 235/73 Where Sold: Towson, MD Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: London UK early aughts Intoxica 4 pounds Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A'  Sad To See It Go: Yes Two albums I definitely enjoyed back in the late 80's/early 90's were the Bevis Frond's Inner Marshland and Walking Seeds' Upwind of Disaster, Downwind of Atonement.  This single kicked off the Clawfist mailorder subscription series of artists covering each other.  I didn't subscribe in it's day and didn't actually find a copy unti

Converge-Jane Doe (2001)

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  Artist: Converge Title: Jane Doe Label: Equal Vision Records Format: CD Cat: EVR61 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year of Edition: US 2001 slipcase Date of Sale: 7/19/23 Sell Price: $8.97 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 6/17/23 NM/NM $14.83 Low:$2.49 G+/VG Median: $9.93 Average: $9.23 High: $14.83 Current low price: $5.61 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12 Have/Want: 725/204 Where Sold: Blacksburg, VA Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought The Fountain Collection purge Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Somehow a third of a century has gone by without me paying any attention to Converge.  From Boston, they were around when I was there, but that meant nothing.  They climbed through the ranks over the years from CBGB's level when 4th album came out to NYC's large hall venues and Epitaph Records for a half dozen albums after this including the most recent in 2021.  Until today, I have managed to hear not a note of them. Jane Doe came from m

David Byron-Take No Prisoners (1975)

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  Artist: David Byron Title:  Take No Prisoners Label: Mercury/Bronze Format: LP Cat: SRM-1-1074 Year of Release: 1975 Country and Year of Edition: US 1976 Promo Terre Haute Pressing Date of Sale: 7/15/23 Sell Price: $12.70 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 1/18/23 VG/VG $11.72 Low:$5.62 G+/VG+ Median: $12.70 Average: $14.76 High: $29.95 M/VG+ Current low price: $3.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 151/38 Where Sold: Staten Island, NY Time It Took To Sell:  2 years Where and When Bought Ebay $50 prog lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No When I got the sale of David Byron today, I swear to God I had no recollection of getting the record.  I had it in my apartment stack, so I think I got it in an Ebay prog lot 2-3 years ago.  Byron was the drunken singer of Uriah Heap that ultimately was sacked in the 70's and died at 38 in 1985.  However, Byron was still in Uriah Heap when this was recorded and Mick Box Guitar and Lee Kerslake

Soundtrack-Spring Break (1983)

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  Artist: Soundtrack (Cheap Trick, Gerard McMahon, Jack Mack and the Heart Attack, Dreamers, Hot Date, NRBQ, Big Spender) Title: Spring Break Label: Warner Bros. Format: LP Cat: 9 23826-1 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition: US 1983 Gold Stamp Promo Date of Sale: 7/8/23 Sell Price: $4.29 Condition: VG+/VG+ Gold Stamp Promo in open shrink Discogs Last Sold: 3/19/23 VG+/VG+ $3.30 Low:$2.00 Median: $4.21 Average: $4.92 High: $9.02 Current low price: $1.62 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 62 Have/Want: 472/51 Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought new mid 80's in cutout bin Al Bums Worcester for  a dollar Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C Sad To See It Go: No If there was ever an album I've flipped past in my collection wondering why I had it, the Spring Break Soundtrack is it.  Initially, I had zero recollection of the movie and assumed I bought it for the opening Cheap Trick track. Suddenly, I realized that I do remember liking NRBQ&#

Jack O'Nuts-On You (1994)

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  Artist: Jack O'Nuts Title:   On You Label: Radial Records Format: CD Cat: RDL 06-2 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition: US 1994 Date of Sale: 7/2/23 Sell Price: $3.52 Condition: VG+/VG hole punch in UPC Discogs Last Sold: 2/27/22 M/M $3.50 Low:$1.00 Median: $2.83 Average: $2.97 High: $4.98 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 39/11 Where Sold: Hot Springs, AR Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: used late 90's Kims dollar cd wall Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No " These guys are the female Jesus Lizard "  was all it took for me to make Jack O'Nuts a regular rotation singles purchase.  I actually was a big fan of vocalist Laura Carter's previous Athens, GA band Bar-B-Que Killers Comely album when they existed but since I never got to see that band live I didn't make the connection.  I guess she joined Jack O'Nuts in 1991, a couple years after their inception. Anyway, the