This post is a Scream!

Not on the same level as some of the other Dischord bands, still SCREAM was influential in their own right. I was happy to pick this up recently in a multi auction win for the whopping price of 99 cents. This is a 2009 repress of the bands debut album which originally came out in 1982. This thing was definitely ahead of its time, it just so happens that they were label mates with some of the most influential acts in the history of punk music. This band may be most well known for having Dave Grohl  of Nirvana and Foo Fights fame as one of the later members... Whatever.

I've always thought this album had great cover art and great photography.

Goes well with the white vinyl, too. Definitely a good buy for 99 cents!

I'm not the first, I hope I'm not the last...

Nothing too special here, two of my copies of the Minor Threat S/T 12". I would like to someday have all the colors, but this will have to do for now. I am not really sure what years these came out, or what the pressing info was on these. The red and blue with the $4.00 PPD on the back were the first, and then came these copies with the $5.00 PPD on the back. There seems to be conflicting information all over on these, and discogs seems to believe these were pressed in 1987. I remember buying my blue copy at Streetlight Records in San Jose atleast 10 years ago, when I was just a young man getting into the vinyl game. I have never really gone after Minor Threat vinyl very aggressively, as I was more interested in Oi! and rap vinyl as a young man. However, Minor Threat has always been one of my favorite bands and one of the first hardcore bands I ever got into. I was always so blown away by how ahead of their time they sound on these recordings. If this was recorded in 2012, it would still be whooping that ass. This music is timeless. And in Mike's words; "This album could very well be the best piece of hardcore wax ever pressed, and I'm happy to finally own it on vinyl. But, hey, that just how I see it...in my eyes...so what the fuck have you done?" I could not have said it better myself, Sir!

The green copy has a slightly lighter colored label. I have owned the blue copy for years, but the Green copy I acquired off a multi auction bid for around five bucks, that's less than I payed for my copy a decade ago! What the hell?

The insert on the green copy is a bit darker, as well. Minor Threat vinyl is something I've always kind of stayed away from because there are so many different pressings of everything, the pressing amounts are usually very large, and it is all mostly on black. Someday I hope to remedy that, but considering how expensive the real deal OG shit goes for, I don't see myself getting my hands on the good stuff anytime soon.

Void/The Faith Split. 3rd Pressing with Light Blue labels

Here is the third pressing of the Void/Faith split on Dischord. It is on the light blue "Made in France" labels. I stumbled on this one in 2000 at Amoeba Records in San Francisco. At the time I was only 13 and didn't really know anything about this release. I did however know lots about Minor Threat, and I saw the Dischord label and thought the cover was cool so I got it. I'm glad I did. Even though its not the first pressing, even the 2nd and 3rd pressings can go for silly prices sometimes, but they have gone down ever since it was released again in 2009. Great record though.