The Reverse Collector

  Artist: EC8OR Title: Spex Is A Fat Bitch! Label: Digital Hardcore/Intercord Record Service Format: CD Maxi EP Cat #: DHR MCD 9/IRS 911.779 Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Germany 1997 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/27/25 Sell Price: $4.47 Discogs Last Sold: 9/17/24 NM/NM $3.93 Low: $2.63 Median: $4.20 Average: $4.72 High: $8.14 Current low price: $5.27 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 32/24 Where Sold: St. Louis, MO Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: new Etheria East Village Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The Berlin techo punk of EC8OR always sounds good to me.  Sort've a cross between Riot Grrrl, X-Ray Spex and "The Future" which is now over a quarter-century past.   They found a way to make me like "electronica."  It's got an involuntary headbanging quality that I somehow find irresistible in small doses.  A 6-song EP like this is the perfect length for this type of...

  Artist: Various Artists (Rice University Marching Owl Band, Richard Berry, Rockin' Robin Roberts, The Sonics, The Sandpipers, The Kingsmen, The Last, Black Flag, Les Dantz and his Orchestra, The Impossibles) Title: The Best of Louie Louie Label: Rhino Format: LP Cat #: RNEP 605 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1983 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 7/10/25 Sell Price: $4.53 Discogs Last Sold: 5/29/25 VG+/NM $5.00 Low: $1.69 Median: $4.76 Average: $5.47 High: $15.00 Current low price: $2.95 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 882/90 Where Brooklyn, NY Time it took to sell:  10 years Where and When Bought: used That's Entertainment Worcester mid 80's $2.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Fantastic overview of the song many think starts with the Kingsmen and ends with Black Flag.   The original R&B song by Richard Berry is included here.  We also get a version from the Sonics that came a couple years aft...

  Artist: Nig-Heist Title: Nig-Heist Label: Drag City Format: 2CD Cat: DC30CD Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year of Edition: US 1997 Sell Price: $29.99 VG+/VG+ 4/2/23  Discogs Last Sold: 2/7/23 $14.99 Low:$10.00 Median: $26.09 Average: $28.41 High: $41.30 Current low price: $23.75 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want:  68/80 Where Sold:  Vancouver, BC, Canada Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When  The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No "Walking Down Your Street" is perhaps one of the greatest 7" blasts of all time.  Pan-offensive in the G. G. Allin sort of way.  Something for everyone that takes offense to anything.  It was a regular on my late night radio show in high school.  What teenager could resist lines like "I need a release, I need a release, I want to cum!"   I still can't resist to this day, even past 50.   The Snort My Load album from 1984 that leads this com...

  Artist: Greg Ginn Title:  Getting Even Label: Cruz Records Format: CD Cat #: CRZ CD 029 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/18/21 Sell Price: $3.49 Discogs Last Sold: 10/28/21 $4.25 M/M Low: $0.99 Median: $3.70 Average: $3.21 High: $5.68 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 23 Have/Want: 121/16 Where Sold: Troy, MI Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: Smash or Sounds on St. Marks, guessing Smash $1 crate outside Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Greg's post-Black Flag career took a turn back to punk rock in the mid 90's.  Greg took over the vocals.  One of the most distinctive guitarists in any genre, these riffs sounded a little rehashed but life affirming all the same.  The format had changed away from slower and heavier or instrumental like The Process of Weeding Out.  Here it is all buzzbom...