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Kompilation

Kranky

***A double-CD Kranky label sampler with new, upcoming, exclusive, and previously released material from the label's enormous stable of studs. You get twenty-one tracks from STARS OF THE LID, PAN AMERICAN, AUTISTIC DAUGHTERS, CHRISTINA CARTER, GROWING, CHARALAMBIDES, KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN, OUT HUD, JESSICA BAILIFF, FONTANELLE, TOM CARTER, DEAD TEXAN, STRATEGY, and more.

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Dis-jointed

Dis-joint

***NOW AVAILABLE!!! A bumping collection of total groove action from the crate heads at Dis-Joint. You get smoked with a selection of jazz, hip hop, reggae, funk, and soul from HORACE ANDY, DUB DIABLO, EXOTIC PETS, STRANGER & SHORTBUS, RONNIE GEE, DEEP FUZZ, ZAP POW, HUMAN RACE, FLAVORNAUGHTS, and the trio of SOLID C., BOBBY D., and KOOL DRAP.

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Soft Sounds For Gentle People (vol. 3)

Pet Records

***The third installment in this collection of far out and beautiful tracks from California and beyond. Recorded between 1967 and 1971, and compiled from rare 45s and out-of-print LPs, the record features twenty-four tracks from MOJO, WEST COAST BRANCH, PIPE DREAMS, LE CIRQUE, HUNG JURY, CINNAMON SHIP, SUNDOWNERS, SERENDIPITY SINGERS, ELASTIK BAND, STAINED GLASS, and many others.

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Hydroponic Mascara Volume 2

Mr. Whiggs Records

***Hydroponic Mascara Volume 2 is the little comp that could, filled with twenty-two exclusive tracks from some of indie rock's best known and unheard of acts. Get it on with Elf Power, Tobin Sprout, the Impossible Shapes, Swearing at Motorists, Marmoset, the Minders, Doug Gillard, Magical, Oval-Teen, the Gwens, King Sauce, Fablefactory, and plenty more.

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Sounds To Soothe A Nervous Robot

Recordhead

*** Compilation from the late 90's containing EXCLUSIVE tracks and tidbits from Japancakes, Dixie Blood Moustache (Elf Power related), Black Swan Network (Olivia Tremor Control related), Nipples for Days, Melted Men, Noisettes, and tons more.

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Neurot Recordings 1

Neurot Recordings

***NEW LOWER LIST PRICE - A massively heavy label sampler from the home of NEUROSIS featuring the label's best, brightest, and most forward thinking artists. You get previously unreleased tracks from NEUROSIS, OXBOW, GRAILS, ENABLERS, and BLOOD & TIME, along with cuts from SABERS, LOTUS EATERS, STEVE VON TILL, ISIS, ZENI GEVA, CULPER RING, TARANTULA HAWK, and NEUROSIS & JARBOE. Includes a bonus DVD with audio and video material from NEUROSIS, TRIBES OF NEUROT, TARENTEL, BEE & FLOWER, VHK, HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE, and others.

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Cameranoise Video 1

Cameranoise

***A DVD fanzine filled with two hours of live performances and interviews with indie rock hotshots TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS, PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, PEDRO THE LION, DENALI, ONE LINE DRAWING, ROCKY VOTOLATO, IVORY COAST, and PARIS TEXAS. Filmed on location in New York and Seattle with multi-angle camera work and professionally engineered sound. Includes rarely performed bonus material.

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Ny No Wave

Ze Records

***BACK IN STOCK!!! A collection of searing no wave tracks from the genre's greatest pioneers. You get twenty-two tracks from JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS, LYDIA LUNCH, SUICIDE, MARS, TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS, ARTO/NETO, LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX, CONTORTIONS, and ROSA YEMAN.

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Take The Bird From The Birdman

Birdman

***A limited edition label sampler featuring past, current, and upcoming tracks from the mighty Birdman roster. Includes Modey Lemon, Apes, The Gris Gris, the Cuts, the Warlocks, Twilight Singers, Greg Ashley, Paula Frazer, Jon Wahl, Midnite Snake, PFFR, Young Jazz Giants, Tom Recchion, and a new track from the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band featuring Sharde Thomas! Jewel box packaging.

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Mimicry Records Sampler

Web Of Mimicry

*** An excellent introduction as well as recap Mimicry Records past, present and future roster. Tracks from past releases and upcoming albums from Secret Chiefs 3, Dengue Fever, Estradasphere, Faxed Head, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, I.S.S., Danubius, Farmers Market, Brazzaville, and Fishtank. Card folio packaging. Priced to move.

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Teenbeat Sampler 2004

Teenbeat

***Teenbeat comes out swinging with the 2004 installment of their yearly label sampler series. This time in you get new exclusive tracks from roster faves +/- (PLUS/MINUS), FLIN FLON, PACIFIC OCEAN, HOLLAND, MARK ROBINSON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, CURRITUCK CO., EVELYN, WHYSALL LANE, and more. Enhanced CD features an exclusive +/- (PLUS/MINUS) video and two additional songs.

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Lovitt Transmissions Vol. 1

Lovitt

***The first installment in BRIAN LOVITT's attempt to document the history of his beloved Lovitt label from a visual and sonic perspective. Features interviews, live performances, and tour footage captured between 1994 and 2003 by friends, fans, featured bands, and a professional production team. Included are: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, MILEMAKER, RAH BRAS, BATS & MICE, ENGINE DOWN, FIN FANG FOOM, FRODUS, MAXIMILLIAN COLBY, and SLEEPYTIME TRIO, along with many bonus features.

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It Came From Memphis Vol 2

Birdman

***A companion piece to Pocket Books re-printing of the 1996 It Came From Memphis book by renowned Memphis musician ROBERT GORDON, documenting the lesser-known stories of the fabled Memphis scene. Features eighteen great tracks compiled by the author from obscure rock and blues heroes GOOD KID ROBERT, OTHA TURNER, SID SELVIDGE, MUD BOY and the NEUTRONS, HAMMIE NIXON, VAN ZULA HUNT & THE BEALE STREET JUG BAND, JOHNNY WOODS & BOBBY RAY WATSON, TAV FALCO, JERRY LAWLER, JIM DICKINSON & THE NEW BEALE STREET SHEIKS, SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS, BAND OF ONES, LAWSON & FOUR MORE, INSECT TRUST, BOOTLEGGERS QUARTET, B.B. CUNNINGHAM, PHINEAS NEWBORN ORCHESTRA, and MOLOCH.

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Delta Experimental Project Vol 3 (jim Dickinson Field Recordings)

Birdman

***Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson is a legend in his own right (having played keyboards on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," performed on Bob Dylan albums, produced Big Star and Alex Chilton albums, etc., etc.) and he definitely knows a thing or two about blues roots and field recordings of legendary and should-be-legendary blues artists from the south. Dickinson captures raw and spontaneous performances from some of the most important blues artists in the Memphis / Mississippi area on these exclusive recordings by Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (whose performances feature the guitar work of Ry Cooder), Otha Turner, Mose Vinson, Johnny Woods and Alec Teal. These pure examples of Delta blues were committed to tape at Sam Phillips studios, Ardent studios, the Orpheum Theater, and various fields in and around the Memphis area. Raw, gritty and real - just how the blues should be heard. Dickinson says, "The Blues is … a musical tradition born from the dark prison of slavery. Torn from family and homeland, separated from custom and culture, the call and response of the African work song took on new emotional depth. A lonesome sound in the darkness - a howling dog or passing train - echoed by harmonica or guitar became a raw, powerful statement of hard times, long work, and fast pleasure; a voice in the southern night complaining about the human condition.  "The fleeting nature of the present creates in man the desire to capture the moment. The movement of time compels us...

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Let's Start The Action

Sudden Death

***The first (but we're all holding our breath) electronic tribute to the godfathers of Canadian punk rock, DOA. Twenty-two of the band's best tracks reinterpreted and performed by digital hardcore, electronica, ambient, IDM, and breakcore artists from around the world, including AD ASTA, HYPERDRIVER, AMBASSADOR 21, FAT NOT DEAD, DJ JESUS CHRIST, NARC, ZEROISM, BUBEN, ELLENDE, KARAKOE VOMIT, NOIZE PUNISHMENT, and more.

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Cinema Beer Buddy

Hopeless

***The fifth installment in Hopeless' long-running and ever-popular Cinema Beer series showcasing some of the hottest punk bands on the scene. You get fifteen hard-to-find videos from faves JIMMY EAT WORLD, MIDTOWN, THURSDAY, THRICE, AFI, POISON THE WELL, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, STAIRWELL, ATARIS, STRUNG OUT, CONVERGE, SHADOWS FALL, and more. DVD features tons of bonus footage and easy-to-use interactive menus.

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Swami Sound System 1

Swami

***Swami Records showcases unreleased tracks from their current roster including ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, HOT SNAKES, THE HUSBANDS, THE SULTANS, BEEHIVE AND THE BARRACUDAS, DAN SARTAIN, LOINCLOTH , and MANNEKIN PIS.  

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Teenbeat Sampler 2003

Teenbeat

***Teenbeat delivers their annual state of the label with another great collection of the label's best and brightest. You get exclusive, previously unreleased tracks from FLIN FLON, +/- (VERSUS), ADEN, HOT PURSUIT, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, MARK ROBINSON, SPRITES, SISTERHOOD OF, CURRITUCK CO., HOLLAND, BELLS OF, PACIFIC OCEAN, KEVIN HEWICK, TRACY SHEDD, and more.

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Mob Action Against The State - Collected Stories From The Bay Area

Alternative Tentacles

***A double-CD collection of spoken word performances delivered at the Anarchist Bookfair over the years. Includes rantage from PAUL KRASNER, JELLO BIAFRA, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, CRAIG O'HARA, CHRISTIAN PARENTI, RUTHIE GILMORE, ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ, BARRY BATEMAN, HARRY BRITT, ELIZABETH MARTINEZ, STEPHEN DUNIFER, and many others. Packaged with artwork by JOHN YATES.

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We Still Keep On Running With D.o.a.

Sudden Death

***A tribute album to Vancouver punk legends D.O.A. featuring eleven cover songs from six of Japan's rippingest groups, and two additional tracks from D.O.A. themselves. With CONSTRICTED, TOTAL FURY, SMASH YOUR FACE, WAG PLATY, FIRST ALERT, and GO.

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Another Year On The Screen Vol. 1

Vagrant

***Vagrant complements its popular Another Year On The Streets sampler series with a collection of videos from the label's top acts. You get rocked all over with unreleased vids from HOT ROD CIRCUIT, THE ANNIVERSARY and NO MOTIV, as well as favorites from ALKALINE TRIO, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, FACE TO FACE, GET UP KIDS, and SAVES THE DAY. Includes exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, unseen photo galleries, alternate angles, deleted scenes, and band bios and discographies.

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Day The Needles Stood Still

Alternative Tentacles

Too young to have a record player? Or just too lazy? Here's our convenient, affordable way of making six recent vinyl-only singles available to the growing population of turntable-less unfortunates. 22 tracks from 6 bands. The sampler from early 1996 : Saturn's Flea Collar (Victim's Family; Hellworms), Life After Life, Buzzkill, Molotov Cocktail, Pachinko, Radiopuhelimet.

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20 Years Of Dischord

Dischord

***How good does it get? Punk rock pioneers Dischord Records celebrate twenty great years with a collection of tracks spanning their entire history. Disc one hits massive with twenty-nine tracks from the early days—TEEN IDLES, VOID, MINOR THREAT, YOUTH BRIGADE, GOVERNMENT ISSUE, S.O.A., SCREAM, RITES OF SPRING, DAG NASTY, ONE LAST WISH, ARTIFICIAL PEACE, etc. Disc two takes over and brings it up-to-date with twenty-one tracks—FUGAZI, LUNGFISH, JAWBOX, Q AND NOT U, MAKE-UP, SLANT 6, HOOVER, NATION OF ULYSSES, BLUETIP. While Disc three flat-out knocks you over with twenty-three PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED gems—TEEN IDLES, S.O.A, MINOR THREAT, G.I., VOID, SCREAM, DAG NASTY, FUGAZI, SHUDDER TO THINK—plus an assortment of live video cuts from Teen Idles, Untouchables, S.O.A., FAITH, Void, and DEADLINE. All this, and an incredible 132-page book filled with photos, liner notes on each band, discographical information, and more. Get up and go.

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Single Wish

Recordhead

***A benefit release compiled and organized by the CAFFEINATED ROBOTS—TODD and JASON at Luna—to provide funds for the Martha Millard Robinson Scholarship Foundation, which helps underprivileged children learn and appreciate the arts. Features exclusive tracks from ROBERT POLLARD, GREEN PAJAMAS, TOBIN SPROUT, RED HOUSE PAINTERS, RON SEXSMITH, KINGSBURY MANX, BRANDO, CANDY BUTCHERS, DAVID GARZA, IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES, and more.

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Survive And Advance Vol. 1

Merge

***A sweet collection of upcoming and previously unreleased new music from the cream of the Merge Records crop. You get fourteen tracks from IMPERIAL TEEN, RADAR BROS., EAST RIVER PIPE, SPOON, DESTROYER, DAVID KILGOUR, CROOKED FINGERS, SPACEHEADS, LAMBCHOP, GOTHIC ARCHIES, LADYBUG TRANSISTOR, and more.

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Apocalypse Always

Alternative Tentacles

***The latest in cheap-o samplers, this time from the folks at Alternative Tentacles. You get the goods from new stars and old faves PHANTOM LIMBS, FLAMING STARS, TEENAGE FANCLUB, FLESHIES, SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB, STROBE TALBOT, IOWASKA, NOMEANSNO, MUMIA ABUL-JAMAL, D.O.A., VICTIM'S FAMILY, LARD, NOAM CHOMSKY, MICHAEL GIRA, JELLO BIAFRRA, and more.

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Prisons On Fire - Freedom Archive Presents...

Alternative Tentacles

***A sad history of the corrupt American prison system featuring insights and contributions from ANGELA DAVIS, JAMES BALDWIN, ATTICA BROTHERS, JONATHAN JACKSON JR., CHARLES BARKLEY, HARRY BELAFONTE and others.

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Teenbeat Sampler 2002

Teenbeat

***The latest in Teenbeat's always popular label sampler series comes at you with the top pop sounds in the game. You get exclusive and previously unreleased tracks from JULIET (RONDELLES), VERSUS (2 new songs!), +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, ADEN, CURRITUCK COUNTY, BELLS OF, MARK ROBINSON, PACIFIC OCEAN, PHIL KRAUTH, SISTERHOOD OF, LONG GOODBYE, JONNY COHEN & CHEEKY BASTID, TEENAGE PHENOMS, and POCKET ROCKETS.

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Red Snerts - The Sound Of Gulcher

Gulcher

***A reissue of Gulcher Records' legendary Red Snerts compilation featuring a host of the Midwest's pioneering punk combos. You get sixteen tracks from THE GIZMOS, THE PANICS, AMOEBAS IN CHAOS, JETSONS, MR. SCIENCE, DEFEKTS, A.XAX, E-IN BRINO, PHIL HUNDLEY, ZERO BOYS, DOW JONES & THE INDUSTRIALS, POST RAISIN BAND, LAST FOUR (4) DIGITS, FREDDY & THE FRUITLOOPS, BAY-ROOT, and THE DANCING CIGARETTES.

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Monkeywrenching The New World Order

Alternative Tentacles

***An audio introduction to the New World Order and its discontents featuring words, viewpoints, and ideas on changing politics, militarism & policing; environmental issues, frankenfood & genetic engineering; digital capitalism, and much more from radicals NOAM CHOMSKY, CRAIG O'HARA, ALEXANDER COCKBURN, WARD CHURCHILL, THE BIOTIC BAKING BRIGADE, RUTHIE GILMORE, NORMAN SOLOMON, CHRISS CRASS, HOWARD ZINN, and others.

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Home Alive Compilation Ii - Flying Side Kick

Broken Rekids

***A compilation to benefit Home Alive, a non-profit organization that teaches free self-defense to women and girls, founded in Seattle in 1993 in the wake of the murder of GITS lead singer MIA ZAPATA. You get THE GOSSIP, LESLIWOOD, AMY RAY & THE BUTCHIES, PINKOS, THE NEED, BLACK HALOS, CARISSA'S WEIRD, CARRIE AKRE, SANFORD ARMS, MAKERS, ZEN GUERILLA, SONGS FOR EMMA, DEAD MOON, and more.

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Green Revolution

Sudden Death

***A brand new compilation released by D.O.A.'s JOEY SHITHEAD to benefit the Green Party around the world. Features twenty-two tracks from D.O.A., VICE SQUAD, BRUCE COCKBURN, REAL MCKENZIES, RANDY BACHMAN (with D.O.A.), JELLO BIAFRA, DOG EAT DOGMA, RIPCORDZ, and more.

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No Idea 100 - Redefiling Music

No Idea

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! A celebration of something or other, or maybe not, from the fine folks at Gainesville Punk Central. You get sixteen bands doing sixteen covers, none of which have been previously released. The party as we understand it: ASSHOLE PARADE (Circle Jerks), HOT WATER MUSIC (Springsteen), SMALL BROWN BIKE (Thin Lizzy), RADON (Morrissey), I HATE MYSELF (Spoke), USUALS (Police), RUMBLESEAT (Johnny Cash), ANTHEM EIGHTY EIGHT (Assuck), PANTHRO UK UNITED 13 (The Clash), and a few more. Includes a full-color poster and insert.

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Ecstasy Of The Agony

Alternative Tentacles

***Twenty-seven songs by ALTERNATIVE TENTACLE'S artists new and old. Unreleased damage by JELLO BIAFRA, VICTIM'S FAMILY, ZENI GEVA, THE FARTZ, and plenty of others. Previously released stuff from LARD, HOWARD ZINN, SNFU, AMEBIX, BGK, FALSE PROPHETS, FREE BEER, DICKS and many, many more. Go team!

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Down In Front

No Idea

***A CD featuring the best cuts from the infamous quadruple-7-inch party pack, plus one song from seven different 7-inches—none of which (save two) have ever been on CD prior. Eighteen bands—all of which feature AARON COMETBUS—including PINHEAD GUNPOWDER, CLEVELAND BOUND DEATH SENTENCE, ASTRID OTO, SWEET BABY, SHOTWELL (COHO), REDMOND SHOOTING STARS, THE BLANK FIGHT, and more. Packaged with a 12-page booklet.

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Low Pressure Compilation

Low Pressure

***A head-clogging collection of solid hip hop grooves produced by DJ MOVES and featuring a who's who of Canadian hip hop stars. Twenty tracks strong with mic-rocking from BUCK 65, JOSH MARTINEZ, MOKA ONLY, AWOL ONE (the lone non-Canadian), GOVERNOR BOLTS, BIRDAPRES, KUNGA 219, KOTEP, and more.

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Bits & Pieces

Theologian

***One of the scene's best throws its hat into the cheapo sampler ring, and unloads some of the sweetest punk rock around. Twenty-five tracks of previously unreleased and rare material from PENNYWISE, PSEUDO HEROES, CHEATER, B.A.T., HOMEMADE, F.Y.P., SHUTDOWNS, DEVIATES, DEAD TREE, WAR CALLED PEACE, SUGAR BRITCHES (FLETCHER & BYRON of PENNYWISE and Theologian bossman MARC THEODORE), PROP 13, CIGAR, FISHSTICKS, OUT OF ORDER, 98 MUTE, and the GOODS.

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Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel - A Concept Album

Off Records

***A concept album compilation with each contributing group relaying a chapter in the continuing saga of Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel—his allergy-released hallucinations, his out-in-the-world adventures, his role in the great underwater fire battle, and his ultimate demise. Includes exclusive songs written and recorded for this project from GUIDED BY VOICES (two tracks), STEPHEN MALKMUS, QUASI, MARY TIMONY, HOWE GELB, SENTRIDOH, MINUS 5, POSTER CHILDREN, GRANDADDY, BLACK HEART PROCESSION, MACHA, WEIRD WAR (IAN & MICHELLE of the MAKE UP and MINDERS), ANN MAGNUSON & DAVE RICK, and four incidental pieces by GOLDCARD (CHARLIE of POND). Packaged with a fold-out sleeve with full-color artwork from PETER BAGGE, JIM WOODRING, JOE SACCO, ADRIAN TOMINE, and KIM DEITSCH, plus liner notes by RICHARD MELTZER. Holy cow.

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Teenbeat Sampler 2001

Teenbeat

***The latest installment in Teenbeat's yearly series of what's-up-with-us samplers. This time around we hear the exciting sounds of top pop acts RONDELLES, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOT PURSUIT, ADEN, MARK ROBINSON, BELLS OF, HOLLAND, CURRITUCK COUNTY, ROBERT SCIPUL, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, and more. All tracks are previously unreleased and exclusive to this record.

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Live Fat, Die Young Fat Music 5

Fat Wreck Chords

***The latest installment in the inexpensive, extremely popular series from Fat Wreck. All the usual capitalists: NOFX, NO USE FOR A NAME, SNUFF, ZERO DOWN, LAGWAGON, ANTI-FLAG, STRUNG OUT, and the rest, give one song a piece to this fast-selling compilation.