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Nick Drake-Maximum Nick Drake (2004)

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  Artist: Nick Drake (Written by Keith Rodway, Read by Sian Jones) Title: Maximum Nick Drake Label: Chrome Dreams Format: CD Cat #: ABCD187 Year of Release: 2004 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 2004 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/10/25 Sell Price: $5.76 Discogs Last Sold: 3/30/24 VG+/VG $3.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $5.76 Average: $4.71 High: $5.76 Current low price: $3.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 23/6 Where Sold: Huntington, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: $2 cd lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: D- Sad To See It Go: No Chrome Dreams "Maximum..." series is the type of thing you find in a bookstore cutout bin.  This one, like I suspect all others, consists of no music and a drug store biography of the performer in question.  The books-on-tape reader sounds like she possibly never heard the artist she was reading about and reads the text like a haughty schoolteacher's aide.  She never fails to accent a single sentence w...

Various Artists-The Birth of Tragedy Magazine's Fear-Power-God (1987)

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  Artist: Various Artists (Lydia Lunch, Matt Heckert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Manson, Mr. V.O. Real, Jello Biafra, Allen Ginsberg, Anton LaVey, Henry Rollins, Whipping Boy) Title: The Birth of Tragedy Magazine's Fear-Power-God Label: CFY Records Format: LP Cat #: CFY 004 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 8/21/21 Sell Price: $12.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/19/21 $12.50 Low: $8.00 VG+/VG Median: $11.75 Average: $11.57 High: $16.50 NM/VG+ Current low price: $9.84 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:17 Have/Want: 151/58 Where Sold: Los Angeles Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums New $7.99 when released Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No An amazing assembly of poets, punkers, industrial wastelanders and psychopaths.  The best cut by far is Anton LaVey reading Book IV with authority.  Lawrence Ferlinghetti delivers The Lor...