The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Pipe Title:  Ashtray b/w Warsaw Label: Merge Format: 7" Cat #: mrg 037 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 11/22/24 VG+/VG+ $2.84 Low: $1.00 Median: $2.30 Average: $2.65 High: $6.00 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17 Have/Want: 233/24 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  NYC somewhere around time of release new Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Former Superchunk drummer Chuck Garrison had a band in the mid-90's that was on the lips of almost everyone: Pipe.  Their run was short from 1993-7, but they got around.  The vocalist Ron Liberi, well versed in Black Flag stylings, went on to bands like Zen Frisbee and The Ghost of Rock.  The band returned in 2023 and released a self titled album .   "Ashtray," the A-side features a spirited sandpaper ra...

  Artist: Vertigo Title:  Driver #43 b/w Shut Up and Sit Down Label: Amphetamine Reptile Format: 7" Cat #: SCALE 53 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $3.46 Discogs Last Sold: 8/28/25 NM/NM $2.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.12 High: $5.99 Current low price: $1.18 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 35 Have/Want: 326/24 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  NYC early 90's probably Kims new Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No As anonymous and quality implied as AmRep got, I almost had Vertigo pegged as part of that label's Australian onslaught.  Almost.  Where the fuck were they from?  Minneapolis, of course.  Same as Amphetamine Reptile. Where are they now and what ever happened to Vertigo after their short burst of records from 1988-1993?  Their bass player retired.  Just kidding, they never had...

  Artist: Gorilla Title: Detox Man b/w Sober Label: Sub Pop Format: 7" Cat #: SP119 Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 Singles Club Sept 1991 4,500 edition grey marbled vinyl Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $3.09 Discogs Last Sold: 9/1/25 NM/NM $3.00 Low: $0.95 Median: $2.56 Average: $2.81 High: $5.70 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 42 Have/Want: 542/50 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  singles club mail order Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C Sad To See It Go: No Perhaps one of the least desirable of all Sub Pop Singles Club Singles, engineer Brian Nelson's band Gorilla had a handful of releases in the 90's kicked off by this thematic single.  Sub Pop singles had much larger pressings and glossy covers by September 1991 the month of Nevermind. The record itself is a couple likable garage rock jams.  That I couldn't remember either side meant that...

  Artist: Rein Sanction Title: Deeper Road b/w R.K. Label: Sub Pop Format: 7" Cat #: SP 160 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 4,500 pressing Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 9/1/25 NM/NM $6.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $4.03 Average: $4.12 High: $9.07 Current low price: $2.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 28 Have/Want: 288/27 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  Boston Newbury Comics new when released probably $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No The expansion of Sub Pop from Seattle to nationwide (in this case Jacksonville, FL) in search of talent ultimately meant for dilution of relevance even as sales and pressings increased exponentially from the Nirvana sales tsunami.  A band like Rein Sanction, although ok on it's own merits, seemed an afterthought after the initial wave of acts on the label. I dutifully bought this single upon r...

  Artist: Pods Title: Where I'm Calling From Label: Pods Format: CD Cat #: n/a Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $11.82 Discogs Last Sold: 3/2/23 VG+/VG+ $17.00 Low: $11.82 Median: $17.00 Average: $18.75 High: $29.97 Current low price: $20.95 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 28/26 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  Kims NYC St Marks $1 wall Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No I was pretty psyched to find this self-released demo on the budget wall at Kim's in the mid-90's.  Ben Deily was fresh out of the peak years of the Lemonheads and his new short lived band was Pods.  Considering the commercial trajectory Evan Dando took the Lemonheads after Ben left, one would be surprised that in the early heyday they were a co-fronting tandem. "Promise" was a radio tape hit toward the end of my time in Boston, and that...

  Artist: Lemonade Title: Our Poems Set To Music Label: Face The Music Format: 7" Cat #: FTM -3 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/31/25 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/3/25  NM/NM $4.69 Low: $1.88 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.79 High: $4.69 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 36/4 Where Sold: Nashville, TN,  Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  can't remember mid 90's somewhere Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C Sad To See It Go: No Lemonade are one of those Olympia scene bands of the early 90's that put out one single and went on to other things.  The A-side was recorded in the studio, and the B-side was recorded at KAOS on the Unwound drummer Sara Lund's radio show.  The music is almost communist in its indistinguishability as it veers from a surf punk style instrumental to a Fugazi type groove after some petulant screaming and some...

  Artist: Golden Smog Title:  Down By The Old Mainstream Label: Rykodisc Format: CD Cat #: RCD 10325 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 8/29/25 NM/VG+ $4.09 Low: $1.78 Median: $3.73 Average: $3.83 High: $8.99 Current low price: $1.49 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 91 Have/Want: 1658/54 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: Venus St Marks NYC $1 late 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Golden Smog were the Mpls supergroup of roots rockers primarily known as a Jayhawks spinoff with Gary Louris and Marc Perlman.  Jeff Tweedy is in it as Scot Summit and even wrote "Pecan Pie."  So is Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum.  The singer is Kraig Johnson from Run Westy Run.  The band had a run roughly from 1992-2007. One thing about this album is that of 14 songs, at least half jump out at instantly enj...

  Artist: Urge Overkill Title:  Exit The Dragon Label: Geffen Format: CD Cat #: GEFD 24818 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $3.09 Discogs Last Sold: 6/27/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00 Low: $0.77 Median: $2.20 Average: $3.13 High: $10.00 Current low price: $1.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 46 Have/Want: 613/32 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: used Sounds NYC $8.99 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Exit The Dragon is a weird record to me.  At the time it came out I bought it used for $8.99 probably the month it came out.  I don't remember playing it beyond once and not liking it all that much.  This, considering I loved pretty much everything the band put out before Exit The Dragon.  Urge went on hiatus after that for over a decade, so I never got to reconsider the songs live over years.  I'm s...

  Artist: Buffalo Tom Title: Big Red Letter Day Label: Beggars Banquet/Megadisc/EastWest Format: CD Cat #: 7 92292-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $4.85 Discogs Last Sold: 7/5/25 NM/VG+ $1.88 Low: $0.88 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.53 High: $8.80 Current low price: $0.74 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 60 Have/Want: 836/31 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No I was playing catchup with 90's Buffalo Tom recently with some cheap CD lots.  I bought the album before this in real time as I did the first two, but for me there were a bit of diminished returns going on that made me lose interest in the band by the time this came out.  Of course, as far as commercial success and the bands live performance that album was the peak and this was number two.   In Octobe...

  Artist: Maria Fatal Title: Maria Fatal Label: Atzlan Format: CD Cat #: AZT-201-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 8/15/25 Sell Price: $12.99 Discogs Last Sold: 8/2/22 VG/VG $2.99 Low: $2.99 Median: $4.00 Average: $5.99 High: $12.99 Current low price: $14.42 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 14/2 Where Sold: Hamilton, NJ Time it took to sell: 2 weeks Where and When Bought: found in a bag of discarded CD's on the street Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No One morning I was walking in Greenpoint past a record store and there was an empty box on the street "Free CD's!"    Thinking someone got a haul, I kept walking.  Around the corner there was a shopping bag with CD's scattered around that clearly had been rained on.  The contents in the bag itself looked ok and I had a free arm so what the hell, I'll take them home for further review.   I was tempted to ditch i...

  Artist: Peter Jefferies/Robbie Muir Title:  Catapult b/w The Fate Of The Human Carbine Label: Ajax Format: 7" Cat #: AJAX 016 Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/14/25 Sell Price: $5.45 Discogs Last Sold: 7/13/25 NM/generic $7.00 Low: $3.53 Median: $7.71 Average: $7.52 High: $11.65 Current low price: $7.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 146/72 Where Sold: Braddock, PA Time it took to sell: 10  years Where and When Bought: new 1991 probably In Your Ear, Allston, MA Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Hot off the heels of their Dunedin supergroup Plagal Grind with Alastair Glabraith and David Mitchell of the 3D's . Peter Jefferies (from Nocturnal Projections , This Kind of Punishment ) and Robbie Muir (from The Rip ) issued a couple singles in the early 90's together after playing the New Zealand scene roughly a decade in other projects.  Plagal Grind's lone 12" issue...

  Artist: Stiffs, Inc. Title: Nix Nought Nothing Label: Onion/American Format: CD Cat #: 9 14527-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 slipcase promo Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/13/25 Sell Price: $4.00 Discogs Last Sold: 1/9/21 VG+/generic $1.61 Low: $1.61 Median: $2.81 Average: $2.81 High: $4.00 Current low price: $15.88 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 4/2 Where Sold: San Francisco, CA Time it took to sell: 15  years Where and When Bought: got as promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Stiffs, Inc were a " Continental band " (the NYC club) that made it to the "big time."  This meant they got Rick Rubin level distribution on the short lived (1994-6) Onion imprint headed by Johan Kugelberg.  Onion was mostly responsible for pilfering the Ohio bands of Datapanik like V3 and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments into the major label chain.  Did they sell any better?  Who knows.  I was shocked...

  Artist: Various Artists (Didjits, Fuckemos, Gut, Ed Hall, Cows, Cherubs, Noodle, Seaweed, Glorium, Sockeye, Chaindrive, Americanpsycho Band) Title:  Live At Emo's Label: Rise Records Format: CD Cat #: RR-125 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/21/25 Sell Price: $4.00 Discogs Last Sold: 1/28/25 VG+/VG+ $6.84 Low: $1.75 Median: $4.20 Average: $5.18 High: $12.00 Current low price: $4.95 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9 Have/Want: 112/34 Where: Lockhart, TX Time it took to sell: 14 years Where and When Bought: $6.99 sticker still on it from Kim's Underground used bin Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No This 1994 compilation of live recordings from the esteemed Austin club seemed a mandatory purchase at the time.  It had a live version of my favorite Cows song "Plowed" that I completely forgot about.  Other record collection regulars on the noise rock circuit like Ed Hall, Fuckemos, ...

  Artist: Various Artists (Biohazard, White Zombie, Megadeth, 1000 Homo DJ's featuring Al Jorgenson, Ozzy Osbourne with Therapy?, Corrosion of Conformity, Sepultura, Bullring Brummies, Bruce Dickenson with Godspeed, Ugly Kid Joe, Faith No More, Type O Negative) Title:  Nativity In Black: A Tribute To Black Sabbath Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #:  CK 66335 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US BMG club edition Listed Condition: M/M sealed Sell Date: 7/25/25 Sell Price: $4.85 Discogs Last Sold: 6/19/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00   Low: $1.00 Median: $3.01 Average: $3.52 High: $6.50 Current low price: $6.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 112/34 Where: Fresh Meadows, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook $2 CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Pretty good modern metal overview circa the first half of the 90's on this Black Sabbath tribute.  The stars come out Ozzy joins Therapy? (!) to do ...

  Artist: DM Bob and the Deficits Title: Mexico Americano b/w Bandito Mexicano Label: Crypt Format: 7" Cat #: CRYPT-054 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/14/25 Sell Price: $3.46 Discogs Last Sold: 7/26/24 VG+/VG+ $3.09 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.49 Average: $3.66 High: $8.05 Current low price: $2.33 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 23 Have/Want: 147/20 Where Lenexa, KS Time it took to sell:  10 years Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Shrewsbury MA 99 cent singles bin late 90's or so Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No I remember some girl on the garage rock scene that hung out at Marz Bar and was talking about "Dim Bob!" with such enthusiasm I bought their CD Bad With Wimmin.  I still have that CD sitting in storage, but this single I saw a few years later with the A-side from the album was sitting in the 99 cent bin at Newbury Comics when my friend John worked there briefly and took ...

Artist: Shorty Title: Fresh Breath Label: Skin Graft Records Format: CD Cat #: GR14CD Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/12/25 Sell Price: $4.71 Discogs Last Sold: 6/8/25 NM/NM $4.88 Low: $3.00 Median: $5.50 Average: $6.62 High: $15.94 Current low price: $4.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8 Have/Want: 151/40 Where Trenton, GA Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Venus Records NYC $3.00 circa 1994 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Chicago's Shorty were a scene band. Steve Albini recorded under the moniker Albiehnni of Francesco, this one pushed all the buttons. The sound was in the realm of what the Jesus Lizard were doing at the time with a vocalist that was even less decipherable. This EP got around to the point the girlfriend I wrote about that liked Hole a few months back also had this on cassette and played it regularly. I found my copy for $3 bucks at Venus on St. ...