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Anarchy For Sale - Patches on Patches

I have quite the collection of patches. Iron on patches, embroidered patches, silkscreened punk rock patches, Metal bands, Punk Bands, biker patches, military patches... In the spirit of sharing and trying to lighten my load, I'm going to making some of my collection available for sale on E-Bay as well as Etsy. Folks who collect patches and similar stuff - Which site do you prefer? Ebay or Etsy? Is there another? Craigslist?

GOT ANARCHY FOR SALE!

Awesome bunch of rare patches from my collection for sale on E-Bay right now! Included is a Dead Kennedys logo patch that has been affixed to my clothing at some point as well as both of my younger brothers.

CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT ON EBAY!

I can remember the very first moment that I heard the music of Mr. Biafra and company. It was as part of a feature on "Hardcore" on the USA TV show called "Night Flight". I was glued to the screen as Jello, in nasty green rubber gloves lunged about the stage, waving his hands wildly with a look in his eyes that I had yet to see in a musical performer. The next time I heard them, Rob Johnston, the drummer for my Junior High School garage band, The Darke Starz, was a fan of the band. We would walk home from school together and everyday he would strap on his Walkman headphones, drop his chin to his chest and head homeward. One day while walking home a particular lyric from "California Uber Alles" caught his attention - I can't remember what it was at this moment - I feel it's was the bit about the "drawstring lamp". Anyhow, he was explaining to me his take on the lyric and then he sat the headphones on my head, hit rewind, clicked play and the beginning strains of "California Uber Alles" filled my head. Standing there, on the bank of a stinky creek behind a local business, next to a large sewer drain I felt music in a way that I never had before. It frightened me. Black Sabbath had slightly spooked me and I loved the chill I would get whilst listening to Mercyful Fate but the reverb, the single note lines, the minor key, the way that it was so poorly played but in just the right way. I went home and hid all of my Cinderella and Poison records that day and instead of drawing KISS and Twisted Sister logos all over my schoolbooks and jeans I started replicating that simple little X with two extra vertical lines...



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The Brian Jonestown Massacre Two-fer!

I'm letting go of a lot of my samplers and singles. Click the link below to go to the EBay auction.
This auction will be for TWO Brian Jonestown Massacre Samplers:

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tee Pee Records 2003
PRCD20051
"If Love is the Drug Then I Want to OD - selections from Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective"

Tracks:
1. If Love is the Drug Then I Want to OD
2. When Jokers Attack
3. Starcleaner
4. Here it Comes

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tee Pee Records/Best Buy 2003

PRCD31211

"Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective PROMO"

Tracks:
1. Who?
2. This is Why You Love Me
3. Open Heart Surgery
4. When Jokers Attack
5. Pseu Braun interviews Anton Newcombe Live on WFMU 10/2003

Both promo CD's are in a cardboard sleeve (like a mini-vinyl record) and have been played once or twice each.

Click HERE to go to EBAY Auction!

DUSK Suburbia USA 45 rpm (My Record Collection) groamy.blogspot.com

One of my all time favorite records. Inherited this one from Mom and it holds some of my earliest record label defacings. I scrawled my (probably 3 or 4 year old) name, "CHAD" over the top of the name "Kenny Spitzer". Fairly certain Mom pinched this one from a friend's collection. Sorry Kenny! Also, I had started at this time, writing a number 1 on my favorite side and a 2 on the lesser favorite. This would later develop into a code with stars and x's. Some of my favorite guitar work on here. Simple, memorable and fun.

The flipside is a pop gem with a girl group bent called "Treat Me Like a Good Piece of Candy". Classic.

Billy Joe Royal Cherry Hill Park 1969 (My Record Collection) groamy.blogspot.com

Another random 45 from my collection. I've had this in my stack since I was probably 5 or 6 years old. I'm fairly certain it belonged to an ex-step-aunt as it has some lovebird graffiti on the sticker that leads me in that direction.

Never liked the B-side.

C.O.H. Sticker

Help me out here people! This is a sticker for my first (real) band C.O.H. (yes, it stands for Carcass On the Highway). Anyhoo, this is artwork by me, printed at Kinko's on cheap photocopier sticker paper. We printed and hand cut hundreds of these things. We sold some but most went out as freebies. No clue what year this is. I'm guessing it's 1992 to 97-ish. If anybody knows, please do tell!

The text above the head says "A band only a mutha could love".

First Post! A Random grab from an ancient stack of wax

++NOTE++
The fourambition.com sticker is a shout out for my good pal Shannon who keeps getting his new sleeve tattoo pushed farther and farther back. I swear to you, Shannon, we will start that sleeve soon!!
-Chad

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I'll be pulling out all kinds of miscellanea from my collection. This one is a 45 RPM record handed down to me by my mother. I've been listening to this record my whole life (37 years this year!) as you can probably tell by the cracks and pops in the sound. This one was already beat up when I got it. The record's label has Mom's name written on it in ballpoint pen as well as a couple stars indicating that the Keem O Sabe side was the preferred track. The spirals in ink pen are some of my earliest graffiti. I used to love holding an ink pen against a record's label while it was spinning...


The interweb says this thing came out in '69 and the band was a "fake" bubblegum band featuring a very young Daryl Hall on keys.





THE ELECTRIC INDIAN
KEEM - O - SABE
(B. Borisoff - B. Binnick)
Arranged By Tom Sellers
Produced by Len Barry
United Artists Records


Havin' a little more fun with this one when a couple special guests arrive!




THE ELECTRIC INDIAN
BROAD STREET
(B. Borisoff - B. Binnick)
Produced by Len Barry
United Artists Records