Sorry state newsletter: November 5, 2025

This week's Record of the Week is a scorcher from Mexico City's SOGA, and we also have new albums from Rigorous Institution and Industry, the entire Lip Cream catalog reissued, a new 7" from Abism, and lots more!

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New and Recommended Punk & Hardcore Ragers!

  • Radioactivity: Time Won't Bring Me Down 12"
    Regular price
    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Abism: 2025 7"
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    $10.00
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    $10.00
  • Rigorous Institution: Tormentor 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Tardive Dyskinesia: Never Trust a Dream cassette
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    $7.50
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    $7.50
  • Sayon: demo cassette
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    $7.50
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    $7.50
  • Gnostics: demo cassette
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    $7.50
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    $7.50
  • Statico: Absurdity of This World 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Industry: S/T 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00

Recommended Reissues

  • Judge: New York Crew 7"
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    $12.00
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    $12.00
  • Ink & Dagger: Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart 12"
    Vendor
    Trust Records
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    Sold out
    Sale price
    $32.00
  • Ink & Dagger: S/T 12"
    Vendor
    Trust Records
    Regular price
    $32.00
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    $32.00
  • Ink & Dagger: The Fine Art Of Original Sin 12"
    Vendor
    Trust Records
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    $32.00
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    $32.00
  • Eskorbuto: Anti Todo 12"
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    $32.00
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    $32.00
  • Lip Cream: Big Foot 12" (highlighter yellow vinyl) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Lip Cream: Kill Ugly Pop 12" (royal blue vinyl) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Lip Cream: 9 Shocks Terror 12" (royal blue vinyl) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $25.00
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    $25.00

Recommended books, zines, and other reads

  • Salvador Costa: Punk - Salvador Costa's April 77 Photographs book
    Regular price
    $35.00
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    $35.00
  • Paul May: Shot From Both Sides - Photos of UK Punk Gigs 1981-86 book (PRE-ORDER)
    Regular price
    $60.00
    Sale price
    $60.00
  • Sniffy Linings Zine Issue #11
    Vendor
    Total Punk
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    $10.00
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    $10.00
  • Punk Flyer Archive 1975-1980 Book
    Regular price
    $35.00
    Sale price
    $35.00

recently restocked

  • Necron 9: People Die 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Damage: Sins of Our Fathers 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • The Massacred: Nightmare Agitators 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Soup Activists: Mummy What are Flowers For? 12"
    Regular price
    $18.00
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    $18.00

more of this month's best sellers

Save Our Children / Stunted Youth: Split 12"
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$20.00
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$20.00
Destruct / Svaveldioxid: Split 7"
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$10.00
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$10.00
Dark Thoughts: Highway to the End 12"
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$20.00
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$20.00
Subhumans: Demolition War Demos 2x12"
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$38.00
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$38.00

Psico Galera's Memorie Di Occhi Grigi LP up for pre-order

'Memorie Di Occhi Grigi', the new 12" from Italian provocateurs PSICO GALERA, is an 8-track onslaught of dissonant experimentation, unhinged and unpredictable guitar solos, pounding drums, and raw, uncompromising energy, with vocals alternating between distorted shouts and pitched effects reminiscent of early G.I.S.M., slicing through chaotic riffs to create a nihilistic, intense, and sick experience.

Influenced by RKL’s 'Rock’n’Roll Nightmare' era, the metallic and robotic edges of early VOIVOD, and the unstoppable force of STINKY RATS, late NEGAZIONE, and late UPSET NOISE, the record fuses Italian and US hardcore punk from the ’80s and ’90s with obscure Japanese influences such as BITOUSHA, MASTURBATION, and HOG-GISH.

The lyrics explore claustrophobic worlds of unstable minds, institutional violence, and social abandonment, oscillating between fractured self-reflection, guilt, frustration, and calculated revenge. Each track depicts raw, often unsettling scenarios, building a narrative that is intensely personal, universally disturbing, and brutally compelling.

Dark, abrasive, and uncompromising, 'Memorie Di Occhi Grigi' is a direct, fearless sonic manifesto.

PSICO GALERA’s vision is unfiltered, urgent, and clear-eyed, portraying a world where the annihilation of the individual looms relentlessly and oppressively.

Psico Galera: Memorie Di Occhi Grigi 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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$20.00
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$20.00

new on la vida es un mus and sealed records

Home Front: Watch It Die 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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$25.00
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$25.00
Shakti: S/T 12”
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$25.00
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$25.00
London Clay: Private View 12” (PRE-ORDER)
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$25.00
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$25.00
JJ & the A's: Rhetoric of Trash 12"
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$25.00
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$25.00

new on sorry state

Illiterates: Does Not Compute 12"
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$18.00
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$18.00
Knowso: Hypnotic Smack 12"
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$18.00
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$18.00
Plasma: Mua Et Voi Omistaa 12"
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$20.00
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$20.00
Fugitive Bubble: What Will Happen If We Stop? 12"
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$20.00
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$20.00

new arrivals

  • Radioactivity: Time Won't Bring Me Down 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • The All-American Rejects: Move Along 12"
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    $35.00
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    $35.00
  • Drain: Is Your Friend 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Spaced: No Escape 12"
    Vendor
    Pure Noise
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Tyler, The Creator: Chromakopia 12"
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    $40.00
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    $40.00
  • The Cranberries: MTV Unplugged 12"
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    $35.00
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    $35.00
  • Orange Bicycle: The Singles (Hyacinth Threads) 12"
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    $35.00
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    $35.00
  • Abism: 2025 7"
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    $10.00
    Sale price
    $10.00
  • Ferriday: Wellspring 12"
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    $18.00
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    $18.00
  • Schenectavoidz: Void Beyond the Pines 12"
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    $18.00
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    $18.00

latest used items

  • I Shot Cyrus / Merda / Jazzus / Evil Idols: Drunk Fools Vs. True Till Death CD
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    used
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    $5.00
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    $5.00
  • Gestation: Suffering From The Start CD
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    used
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Pantalones Abajo Marinero / Captain Three Leg: Split CD
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    used
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    $5.00
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    $5.00
  • Brainspots: Weird World CD
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    used
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    $5.00
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    $5.00

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