November 16th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • G.I.S.M. – “Repami Kakuon Group Rush 911” DVD
    G.I.S.M. – “Repami Kakuon Group Rush 911” DVD
    $46.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    Thoughts are disrupted. P.P.P.project + BEAST ARTS presents “Reppai Kissoku Gun Tonyuu 911” has been decided to be released on DVD.  On September 11th, 2018, the film “Reppai [...]

    GENRE:
  • Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
    Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-3003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pastels – Different Drum
    The Pastels – Different Drum
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: K – IPU 14 Series: International Pop Underground – Vol. XIV Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1990 Media : VG+ Media : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland ‎– Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes
    Plasticland ‎– Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-1003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1983 Media : VG+ Sleeve: VG+

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Pastels ‎– Speeding Motorcycle
    The Pastels ‎– Speeding Motorcycle
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Paperhouse Records – PAPER 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1991 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Moxie Records – MM 1044 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tana Emmolo-Smith / Joseph T. Jacobs ‎– Prescient Dreams / Zanoni
    Tana Emmolo-Smith / Joseph T. Jacobs ‎– Prescient Dreams / Zanoni
    $6.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Subterranean Records – SUB 37 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1983 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Pastels ‎– Thru’ Your Heart / Firebell Ringing
    The Pastels ‎– Thru’ Your Heart / Firebell Ringing
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Paperhouse Records – paper 011 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: UK Released: 1991 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yachts ‎– Suffice To Say / Freedom
    Yachts ‎– Suffice To Say / Freedom
    $5.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Stiff Records – COU/B/BUY 19, Stiff Records – COU-B/BUY 19 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Yellow Transparent Country: Benelux Released: 1978 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
    Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 Media : VG+ Sleeve: VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
    Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Gathers photographs of prison inmates, guards, and visitors, and provides a detailed look at prison life and selected individuals” University Of Missouri Press, 1986 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography

VINYL

  • Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
    Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 Media : VG+ Sleeve: VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland ‎– Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes
    Plasticland ‎– Euphoric Trapdoor Shoes
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-1003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1983 Media : VG+ Sleeve: VG+

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Pastels ‎– Speeding Motorcycle
    The Pastels ‎– Speeding Motorcycle
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Paperhouse Records – PAPER 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1991 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Moxie Records – MM 1044 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pastels ‎– Thru’ Your Heart / Firebell Ringing
    The Pastels ‎– Thru’ Your Heart / Firebell Ringing
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Paperhouse Records – paper 011 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: UK Released: 1991 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
    Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Scadillac – SC-3003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pastels – Different Drum
    The Pastels – Different Drum
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: K – IPU 14 Series: International Pop Underground – Vol. XIV Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1990 Media : VG+ Media : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yachts ‎– Suffice To Say / Freedom
    Yachts ‎– Suffice To Say / Freedom
    $5.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Stiff Records – COU/B/BUY 19, Stiff Records – COU-B/BUY 19 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Yellow Transparent Country: Benelux Released: 1978 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tana Emmolo-Smith / Joseph T. Jacobs ‎– Prescient Dreams / Zanoni
    Tana Emmolo-Smith / Joseph T. Jacobs ‎– Prescient Dreams / Zanoni
    $6.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Subterranean Records – SUB 37 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1983 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
    Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sealed copy! South Indian – various tracks of flute music, vocal & classical, ragas, etc Label: Request Records – SRLP 8076 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US NM/VG+  Sealed

    GENRE: Indian
  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
    Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    Wonderful sarod & tabla raga. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 3117, His Master’s Voice – ECSD 3117 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: India Released: 1984 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Amjad Ali Khan – Prisoner Of Conscience
    Amjad Ali Khan – Prisoner Of Conscience
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Incredible sarod ragas. 2 side lengths – Tilak Kamod & Shahana. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD 2864, His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 2864 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian

CDs

  • Lexus / Rhybadi Split EP CDr
    Lexus / Rhybadi Split EP CDr
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Windburned tracks from Chicago with tangled Tennessee roots. Lexus brings a dank and inverted-ennui that shatters the 4th wall only to reconstruct it. Rhybadi lowers your blood pressure to [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • HoZac Hookup Klub Round One
    HoZac Hookup Klub Round One
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    Featuring exclusive cuts by DUM DUM GIRLS, IDLE TIMES, WOVEN BONES, ART THIEVES, MOTHER OF TEARS, FLIGHT, TEEPEE, BOX ELDERS, and TEETH (Blank Dogs/Spider side project), plus TWO bonus tracks.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
    Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    Heavy, psych-influenced garage rock.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Wax Idols – No Future
    Wax Idols – No Future
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    Fast and blazing post-punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • K-Holes – K-Holes
    K-Holes – K-Holes
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    Goth-tinged punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic
    Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    Reverbed-out & jangly indie-rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
    Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    “Radar Eyes encompass a sound that’s familiar, yet revealing, driving neurotic, icy 12-string guitar lines over heavenly blocks of perfectly contained noise and rhythm, bound by a untamed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Heavy Times – Jacker
    Heavy Times – Jacker
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    Released in 2011 on Hozac Records

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
    The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    “We’ll admit, this finished album landed at our headquarters late last summer, but it just seemed unfair to release it in the Fall or Winter months, since this debut LP […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Peoples Temple* – More For The Masses
    Peoples Temple* – More For The Masses
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    Snarling, Garage-psych rock.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych

BOOKS

  • Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
    Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Gathers photographs of prison inmates, guards, and visitors, and provides a detailed look at prison life and selected individuals” University Of Missouri Press, 1986 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The contents of this compendium, which presents a bit of the history of the racial prejudice against the Chinese, are organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, “Institutionalization of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Architectural designs accompany a discussion of the various aspects of and recent improvements in building homes and businesses underground” Self-published, 1977 staple-bound [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • New American Nudes
    New American Nudes
    $14.00 | , , Add to cart

    Survey of American nude photography of the late 70’s & early 80’s. Morgan & Morgan, 1981 Softcover edition. Some scuffing to wraps, light wear at edges.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Megamurals & Supergraphics
    Megamurals & Supergraphics
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Le Corbusier – Journey To The East
    Le Corbusier – Journey To The East
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Mushrooms Of North America
    Mushrooms Of North America
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms, with pictorial keys and illustrated glossary.” Dutton, 1979 Softcover edition, third printing. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A self-help book that is targeted for three major groups. First, the contents of the book is designed to encourage those that are incarcerated to utilize the positive resources that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction