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Dolomite-Venus (1991)

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  Artist: Dolomite Title: Venus Label: Fiasco Format: 7" Catalog Number: n/a Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition: US 1991 Yellow Vinyl Sell Price: $3.32 Sell Date: 8/7/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 3/10/23 NM/VG+ NM/NM $1.99 Low: $1.99 Median: $3.74 Average: $3.65 High: $4.99 Current low price: $1.45 NM/VG+ Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 68/9 Where Sold: Millbrae, CA Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: early 90's In Your Ear Allston, MA Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Dolomite were one of those complete non-descript Chrome/Big Black inspired bands from Chicago that I loved so much in it's era.  They actually evolved into putting out a full lenght on the Thrill Jockey label around the time Neil Rosario joined Red Red Meat on guitar.  Drummer Rian Murphy was a bit more prolific being a manager at Drag City and having a hand in many of that labels releases in the 90's, even a co-bill releas...

Chicago-Chicago II (1970)

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  Artist: Chicago Title:  Chicago II Label: Columbia Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: 18 BO 0858 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition: US 1970 red shell Sell Price: $4.74 Sell Date: 6/21/26 Condition: VG/F tested sounds good, front cover label missing only tracks,  Discogs Last Sold: 5/31/26 VG/not graded $3.00 Low: $0.49 Median: $3.50 Average: $3.24 High: $5.00 Current low price: $5.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 90/55 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought Ebay 8-track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No  Chicago changed their name in 1970 to avoid a lawsuit by the Chicago Transit Authority.  I guess the city had better things to do.  Anyway this spawned a series of albums without a title for the brunt of the 70's until Hot Streets.  Retroactively they were assigned numbers to their titles.  This one is II or 2.  There were 3 top ten hi...

Drunk Tank-Drunk Tank (1991)

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  Artist: Drunk Tank Title:  Drunk Tank Label: Radial Records Format: CD Catalog Number: RDL 03-2 Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition: US 1991 Sell Price: $5.42 Sell Date: 5/29/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 12/26/25 VG+/VG+ $3.99 Low: $3.99 Median: $6.17 Average: $7.94 High: $17.44 Current low price:  $5.63 VG+/NM Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 59/33 Where Sold: Los Angeles, CA Time It Took To Sell:  16 years Where and When Bought: New Newbury Comics  Boston when it came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Once of the classic non-descript Albini Chicago recordings from the early 90's, Drunk Tank had a couple singles the preceded this debut album whose songs were rerecorded for this release.  The band sent a letter to John Peel apologizing that those earlier versions were better.  Peel became a large proponent of the band in their day.  Radial Records went through Matador Records f...

Chicago-At Carnegie Hall Volumes III & IV (1971)

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  Artist: Chicago Title: At Carnegie Hall Volumes III & IV Label: Columbia Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: GA 30864 Year of Release: 1971 Country and Year of Edition: US 1971 Sell Price: $8.54 Sell Date: 6/1/26 Condition: VG/VG pro refurbish, untested, laminate on cover Discogs Last Sold: 2/4/25 VG/no cover $7.53 Low: $7.53 Median: $8.54 Average: $8.57 High: $9.65 Current low price: $9.65 VG+/no cover Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 48/9 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought: Ebaly 8-track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No The 4-LP box set Chicago At Carnegie Hall was also divided into 2 double album releases when it came out.   This was to commemorate a week of sold out dates at the esteemed Manhattan venue.  Although I had both tapes from the same owner, I had to have them refurbished and listed them in their "separate" listings probably at different times when the repar...

Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy-Hoodoo Man Blues (1965)

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  Artist: Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy Title:  Hoodoo Man Blues Label: Delmark Format: LP Catalog Number:DS-612 Year of Release: 1965 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1983 Promo  white label REISSUE Stereo DS-612 "with Buddy Guy" text on cover, no bar code on back cover, some minor ringwear, edgewear nothing severe with the cover, come with a photocopied press release typed on a typewriter Sell Price: $154.02 Sell Date: 3/15/26 Condition: VG+/VG Discogs Last Sold: 3/11/26 VG+/G+ $100.00 Low: $100.00 Median: $154.02 Average: $150.02 High: $196.05 Current  low price:  $109.32 VG/VG  Really well taken care of copy considering age. A few 1-inch or so marks on A side, but no skips. Genreally clean wax but with a cleaning this would shine. Name written in pen on side B label. Some general wear and discoloration to sleeve but overall quit e nice. Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 59/210 Where Sold: Laives, Bolzano, Italy...

Urge Overkill-Exit The Dragon (1995)

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  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...

Big Black-The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album (1987)

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  Artist: Big Black Title: The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album Side One     Side Two Label: Touch 'n' Go Format: LP Cat #:  TG-LP-INT-1 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Promo only Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 7/18/25 Sell Price: $15.57 Discogs Last Sold: 5/17/25 NM/NM $23.26   Low: $14.95 NM/NM 1/14/20 Median: $25.00 Average: $26.78 High: $40.00 NM/NM like new Current low price: $17.44 VG+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 128/147 Where: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those collection crown jewels that somehow dropped to 15 bucks over the years.  I'm sure I opened up at 40 many years ago, but a dreaded 2" seam split in my notes made other people that actually wanted the record opt for "NM/NM" copies in the 25-40 range. This was a promo that came before the "He's A Whore" si...