Chipped Chrome, Motherfuckers!

Here's one i swiped years ago from a guy named Leo off some dumb message board. The story was he got a lot of 30 punk records off some old timer meatball in Milan. They were all a bit partied but this one was broked off. It was a happy ending after all because it was all dirt cheap. Leo has a blog here check it www.derleonehas7cab.blogspot.com

Your packing skills are an Embarrassment.

Kansas is alright, if you like broken records. This fine art punk, kbd bonzer looks great with a 3rd of it sliced right off. Such a clean break, with a nice twisting cavern of white space between the black grooves. I'm sure the buyer didn't think so, and was probably pulling out some hair and possibly shedding a few tears when he got this one in the mail. Just slap some gorilla glue in there and it should be good as new.

It's been so long since the owner agreed to let me post this scan i can't remember who it was. If my failing memory is correct its ultra KBD collector Ryan Richardson. Check him out at www.breakmyface.com & ryebreadrodeo.com. If its not Ryan's please let me know and i will give you a free patio set.

Too much pressure...

is what the postman applied to the package when he folded it like a taco and stuffed it thru the mail slot. To add insult to injury this has one of those funny hand colored sleeves with doodles inside which according to tales of lore is limited to 25 copies. Could be a fake since it is paired up with 2nd press vinyl but who the hell knows some 30 years later. This comes from Jeroen of the Netherlands who said it was purchased for $3 in the late 80's and broken in 91. Thats some "back in the day" breakage n shit. I have severely neglected this blog but not too much shit has come my way in terms of broken record stories, hell this was sent to me over a year ago. Guess i'm just lazy.

Wait A Minute!? Don't Know What I Am Going To Do About My Broken Record.

This was sent in by a viewer, i can't find the original email right now to tell you who it is. This rare clear vinyl copy has met its match at the hands of the us postal service, what a tragedy. Well if you got one it just got 1 rarer.

What time is it?

Its time to stop dropping shit on your rare jammers. Another from Negative Master Tom. Word is he was moving some stuff around in his house and a speaker grill fell off and went right thru this Really Red 7" he had sitting on a chair. Now thats gotta hurt. Forget controlling the crowds, better start practicing some grill control.

Hammer Damaged.

Today we get a tasty shocker from our pal at collectorscum.com. Broken Records indeed. Here's what justin had to say...

"Back in 2001 I get a random email from someone who stumbled on to my "My eBay" page since we were both bidding on an original copy of Guided By Voice's "Propeller" LP. At that time I already owned a couple copies of the LP, so I must have been bidding on it just to keep an eye on where it would end, which if I recall correctly, at that time was maybe $150. The guy was emailing me because he saw I had a picture of the Hammer Damage "Laugh" 7" on my page, and was surprised to see it. He told me he was in graduate school at Kent State at the time the record came out. He saw the band one night at a small bar on campus and bought the record the next day at a local record shop run by a couple members of the band Human Switchboard.

I already owned the Hammer Damage 7", having previously found it on a set sale list online for the super bargain price of $10, which still makes it one of my best scores ever. But I told him that I could use another copy for my trade list, and I had a spare of the Propeller LP to trade. At the time, the value of this trade was at least three to one in my favor, but he didn't realize quite how desirable his record was, and he was more than happy to do it. A few days later the package arrives, and it looks like the postal workers decided to play hockey, and this was their puck. I opened it, and a small chip of vinyl fell out onto the floor. Fuck! I looked closely, and luckily the chip did not quite reach the music grooves. On later testing, I found it would play great, but you needed a really steady hand to drop the needle in just the right place to start.

The sender had used a proper 45 mailer, although the padding inside was newspaper, not cardboard. I don't believe in postal insurance -- I'd rather take an occasional loss than pay out an insurance fee on the 99 of 100 packages that arrive fine -- so that was not an option. I decided the record in that state was still worth it to me, so I let the trade stand and did not give the other guy a hard time about his packaging job, which could have been better, but would have survived fine given normal conditions.

I let one friend trade his slightly rattier sleeve plus some now forgotten record for the still very nice sleeve pictured here. Then another friend, somewhat to my surprise, offered me the choice of a Fun Things 7" or Fear "I Love Livin in the City" 7", both in decent shape all around, for the Hammer Damage. I went for the Fun Things, thinking I'd be more likely to find the Fear again some day (something which finally happened this past year.) He later upgraded the Hammer Damage, and the current whereabouts of this very playable, but very ugly copy are unknown to me.

The obvious postscript here to people who know GBV records is that the value of an original Propeller LP later skyrocketed, with prices of $1,000+ not unheard of. My lopsided trade turned out to be in other guy's favor, not mine. I've had 3 or 4 original copies of Propeller pass through my hands, but currently have none, a situation I'm not so happy about. But given the choice, I'd rather have the Fun Things anyway, so no complaints here."

can't disagree, there aren't too many thing's id' rather have than that Fun Things 7"...

Write on it, you scum.

Everyone at WMWM must have been bored to death judging by the layers of crossed out shit written on this lp cover. There is so much stuff you cant even read it all. Check the bottom right corner of the front, probably the funniest thing on there. Someone really had some time on their hands when they gave each song an X rating, although no song actually recieved the coveted tripple X. Proving that GG was already looking for "mainstream" success as a note next to one song suggests. Surprisingly the vinyl has only 2 light marks on it. The proud owner of this masterpiece is Cooch from painkiller records, buy some shit, www.painkillerrecords.com