Five In A Dive

As is tradition, the day after boxing day we ventured to this second hand record store I've spoken about previously that's in the middle of nowhere that always has a massive sale on that falls on this day. Usually I've been able to pick up some classic punk and metal records for next to nothing, but the place is going a bit down hill and despite promises to restock ('the thousands of records I've got in storage') the owner seems to be taking his sweet time about it. The LP hunt was a total bust so in desperation I headed over to the 7"s in the hope of finding anything just to make the trip slightly worthwhile. In the end I picked up these five original punk rock classics for around £1 a piece. Nothing rare or unusual here but good stuff I figured I'd throw up here before I put them away for ever.

Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

This caught my eye simply because I hadn't seen this cover before. Usually I see the aeroplane cover - this one is much better.

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor

This comes with limited edition Biro on the front.

Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United

 

Classic! I like that cover too with the Punks, Skins etc crossed out

 

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Who doesn't love the Stiff Little Fingers? This is their debut release

The Clash - London Calling

London Calling

I'm up early (kids) and was watching some Olympic highlights. I have a staggering 25 channels of the games to choose from at the moment.  The title track from this album is used pretty heavily at the moment in conjunction (pretty strange as it's not exactly celebrating London) and as it played on the TV my eyes flicked to my records. As I picked this up reasonably recently and my last post was of a more punk rock nature I figured I'd feature it.

It doesn't really need an introduction but it's London Calling - The Clash -

I love this album, I always have and picked it up at a record fair a few months ago. Record Fairs in general I find are pretty poor for the kind of stuff I like but they are OK for picking up 'classics' at a decent price. There is a Fair maybe every 3 or 4 months about 5 minutes from my house so when it's on I always go on the off chance I'll find something decent...what else am I gonna do on a Sunday morning? It's where I tend to pick up older punk and metal stuff that I don't really feature on this 'ere blog but that I want on vinyl.

You can definitely tell vinyl has had a resurgence over the last few years, when I went to the fair let's say 3 years ago it was pretty sparse but the last occasion I went there was a queue maybe 75 deep to get in at opening. I wasn't particularly looking for this LP nor in any real hurry to add it to my collection. But the fact it was on red vinyl pretty much sold it's self to me as soon as I saw it. The one good thing about record fairs is you can haggle a bit and I managed to get £7 knocked off the price, so I was pretty happy.

You can't see in the photo really but the vinyl is a nice looking red with a slight marble.
'Rudie Can't Fail' is my favourite track on this. It's one of my favourite non hardcore songs of all time.

Normal service will resume next time I'm sure.