New and Recommended Punk & Hardcore Ragers!

  • Displeasure: Annihilation / Billionaire Death Drive 12"
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    $35.00
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    $35.00
  • Vipers: S/T 7"
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    $10.00
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    $10.00
  • Cult Objects: Amulet 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Asocial Terror Fabrication / Katorga: Split 7"
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    $15.00
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    $15.00
  • Draümar: S/T 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • Various: Future Left Behind 12"
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    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • T.S. Warspite: Trauma Stage 7"
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    $12.00
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    $12.00
  • Troop Transport: Songs From 2024 7"
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    Self Released
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    $4.00
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    $4.00

Recommended Reissues

  • Eppu Normaali: Aknepop 12"
    Vendor
    Svart Records
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    $30.00
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    $30.00
  • Eppu Normaali: Maximum Jee & Jee 12"
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    Svart Records
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    $30.00
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    $30.00
  • Ratos De Porão: Ensaio Para O Lira - 1985 7"
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    Morrer Discos
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    $12.00
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    $12.00
  • Ratos De Porão: Crucificados Pelo Sistema 12"
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    Morrer Discos
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Danzig: Danzig I 12" (RSD Essentials) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $33.00
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    $33.00
  • Danzig: II: Lucifuge 12" (RSD Essentials) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $33.00
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    $33.00
  • Rocky & The Sweden: Total Hard Core 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • The Dead Milkmen: Big Lizard in My Backyard 12" (RSD Essentials) (PRE-ORDER)
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    $30.00
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    $30.00

recently restocked

  • Cult Crime: S/T 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Various: French Post-punk et New Wave 1980-1983 cassette
    Vendor
    import
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Various: French Post-punk et New Wave 1984-1987 cassette
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    import
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Various: French Post-punk et New Wave 1988-1990 cassette
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    import
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    $8.00
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    $8.00

Recommended books, zines, and other reads

  • колхо́з Fanzine no. 1 (The Stalin)
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    zines
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    $12.00
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    $12.00
  • Nuzzy #1 zine
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    zines
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    $15.00
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    $15.00
  • Rehearsal for Mortality #1 zine
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    zines
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Paul May: Shot From Both Sides - Photos of UK Punk Gigs 1981-86 book
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    $60.00
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    $60.00

new on la vida es un mus and sealed records

Unidad Ideológica: Choque Asimétrico 12"
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$25.00
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$25.00
A.O.A. / Oi Polloi: Unlimited Genocide 12"
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$25.00
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$25.00
Industry: S/T 12"
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$25.00
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$25.00
London Clay: Private View 12”
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$25.00
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$25.00

new on sorry state

Plastique Pigs: demo cassette
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$8.00
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$8.00
Psico Galera: Memorie Di Occhi Grigi 12" (PRE-ORDER)
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$20.00
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$20.00
Laughing Corpse: Beyond Recognition 7"
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$10.00
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$10.00
DE()T: Welcome to the Idiot Factory 7"
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$10.00
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$10.00

new arrivals

  • Negative Bias: Nobody's Perfect 7"
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    $6.00
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    $6.00
  • Winged Wheel: Desert So Green 12"
    Vendor
    12XU
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    $30.00
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    $30.00
  • Teengenerate: Live at The Empty Bottle 12"
    Vendor
    Hozac Records
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Spider Taylor: Surge Studio Music 12"
    Vendor
    Dark Entries
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • American Nightmare: Year One 12"
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    $30.00
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    $30.00
  • Nomeansno: Sex Mad 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • The Proletariat: Soma Holiday 12"
    Vendor
    S-S Records
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Plosivs: Yell At Cloud 12"
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    Swami Records
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Shop Talk: Museum of Sex 7"
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    $12.00
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    $12.00
  • Control Freaks: TV Generation 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00

latest used items

  • Rescuer: Anxiety Answering 12"
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    used
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    $3.00
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    $3.00
  • Raspberries: Raspberries' Best - Featuring Eric Carmen 12"
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    used
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    $5.00
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    $5.00
  • Juice Newton: Juice 12"
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    used
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    $5.00
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    $5.00
  • Traffic: Best Of Traffic 12"
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    used
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    $3.00
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    $3.00

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