Pinhead Gunpowder Records Very Cheap!

[Todd]

1-2-3-4 Go! Records is selling the leftover stock of Recess Records' 2009 Pinhead Gunpowder represses at great prices. $13 for vinyl records and $8 for CDs. The Kick Over the Traces colored vinyl are currently listed for $36 on Discogs, so this is a really good deal for them. Grab them now, because once they're sold out, you won't be able to get them this cheap again

http://catalog.1234gorecords.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=97

 

[Plankfan]

Picked up a Green Kick Over the Traces over a month ago at this point I think...so they must have some decent stock and man does it sound great. 

[Todd]

I didn't realize it applied for Kick Over the Traces too, but Aaron wasn't happy with the Recess vinyl, so the band recalled all the albums and had them destroyed. So there aren't very many of these around! 

[Jesus of Seneca]

3 hours ago, Todd said:

I didn't realize it applied for Kick Over the Traces too, but Aaron wasn't happy with the Recess vinyl, so the band recalled all the albums and had them destroyed. So there aren't very many of these around! 

what was wrong with them?

[Jimmy Strummer]

17 minutes ago, Jesus of Seneca said:

what was wrong with them?

Ehh usually the case with this kind of stuff is that Recess probably fucked up when remastering them or something.

[Maddie86]

I always kinda assumed the band wanted the records destroyed because of an internal feud or something. I just listened to the recess presses of Jump Salty and Carry the Banner and now I'm listening to my original Lookout pressing of Goodbye Ellston Avenue and the Lookout one just sounds so much more full, the recess ones sound really thin, the guitar and vocals overpower everything

I don't know how they ended up like that, they should have caught any issues with the test pressings. and then why not just get a better master and have a better pressing? There's gotta be a demand for it...

[Todd]

I heard from someone who's done business with Recess that Aaron was listening to Jump Salty and it skipped, so he ordered them all to be destroyed. Sounds very exaggerated, but who knows  

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

1 hour ago, Kyle Serlington said:

I always kinda assumed the band wanted the records destroyed because of an internal feud or something

According to Aaron they still play together but it's just for each other now and he even described it as the highlight of everything that he's done in punk so they're tight  If Aaron did destroy records based on feuds it wouldn't be pretty for other bands though *cough* Crimpshrine *cough* 

37 minutes ago, Todd said:

I heard from someone who's done business with Recess that Aaron was listening to Jump Salty and it skipped, so he ordered them all to be destroyed. Sounds very exaggerated, but who knows  

Aaron is a perfectionist so this seems totally possible  Part of me never really believed the story of the albums being recalled. Like I think it was a deliberate move on the part of the band/Aaron who enjoys the air of mystery and creating the illusion of a product being extremely rare. He gave a hint of this in a radio interview a few years ago when taking about his zine and how people love to think they're getting something extremely unique and rare however he sells thousands of each edition. I have a sneaky feeling the "recall" might have been planned. There certainly seems to be enough copies about. Maybe Aaron has just made me paranoid 

[Todd]

1 minute ago, Hero_Of_The_Hour said:

According to Aaron they still play together but it's just for each other now and he even described it as the highlight of everything that he's done in punk so they're tight  If Aaron did destroy records based on feuds it wouldn't be pretty for other bands though *cough* Crimpshrine *cough* 

I read a story of Aaron throwing copies of that last Crimpshrine 7" out the window of the van. Do you know where I can find that story again? 

[Maddie86]

45 minutes ago, Todd said:

I heard from someone who's done business with Recess that Aaron was listening to Jump Salty and it skipped, so he ordered them all to be destroyed. Sounds very exaggerated, but who knows  

I think I did hear about issues with that. there were a few different colors, I got white vinyl for both Recess albums that I have but I know there were options for clear/translucent vinyl and those are more prone to problems, which is why I think a lot of people had issues with the trans red version of revrad.

another funny story... I posted a lot on the pop-punk message board back when it was around, and Larry Livermore was on there a lot too. I remember when the West Side Highway 7" came out Larry said he was in NY with cometbus and neither one of them had record players so they had to try and find one to listen to the record on!

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

2 minutes ago, Todd said:

I read a story of Aaron throwing copies of that last Crimpshrine 7" out the window of the van. Do you know where I can find that story again? 

Unfortunately, no. 

 

4 minutes ago, Kyle Serlington said:

I think I did hear about issues with that. there were a few different colors, I got white vinyl for both Recess albums that I have but I know there were options for clear/translucent vinyl and those are more prone to problems, which is why I think a lot of people had issues with the trans red version of revrad.

 

I'll have to check the colours of my Pinhead vinyl now (I think they're mostly white also) but I know I have the red Kick Over The Traces anyway without any issues. If it is the case that Aaron destroyed the records because they skipped he would have had some bonfire with the Revrad vinyl 

9 minutes ago, Kyle Serlington said:

 

another funny story... I posted a lot on the pop-punk message board back when it was around, and Larry Livermore was on there a lot too. I remember when the West Side Highway 7" came out Larry said he was in NY with cometbus and neither one of them had record players so they had to try and find one to listen to the record on!

This is brilliant! My new record is out yay...huh I can't actually listen to it 

[Maddie86]

I think the skips depends on your record player. I used to listen to records on a cheap player that would skip, I upgraded to a better one a couple years ago and a lot of those albums are fine now.

[IsaGreenDay]

45 minutes ago, Todd said:

I read a story of Aaron throwing copies of that last Crimpshrine 7" out the window of the van. Do you know where I can find that story again? 

Gimme Something Better, probably.

[Todd]

On 11/27/2017 at 10:07 AM, Hero_Of_The_Hour said:

Unfortunately, no. 

 

Just found it! It's in Gimme Something Better.

Aaron Cometbus: "There's nothing like the feeling of putting the needle down on your very first record of your own band. It's a wonderful feeling. But I also remember a different kind of good feeling, which is smashing your own record into a million pieces. I did that with copies of the Crimpshrine Burning Bridges EP on the way back from a show in Davis, tossing them out the car window and watching them splinter onto the highway. I was frustrated and sad. And angry, of course. But it wasn't just that. It felt good to destroy a little of what you'd worked so hard to create."

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

11 hours ago, Todd said:

Just found it! It's in Gimme Something Better.

Aaron Cometbus: "There's nothing like the feeling of putting the needle down on your very first record of your own band. It's a wonderful feeling. But I also remember a different kind of good feeling, which is smashing your own record into a million pieces. I did that with copies of the Crimpshrine Burning Bridges EP on the way back from a show in Davis, tossing them out the car window and watching them splinter onto the highway. I was frustrated and sad. And angry, of course. But it wasn't just that. It felt good to destroy a little of what you'd worked so hard to create."

Thanks! I have that book but it's among the hundreds of books either with Cometbus quotes/mentioned in it or written by him so there was no way I was going to remember where it was from and it was really irritating  That's one of the pitfalls of having a massive library of punk books...you can never find a quote when you think of it.