With all the different kinds of music I like and the resulting shitload of records on my wantlist it's pretty hard to remeber everything about each of those records. What's a good price? Did it come with any inserts? What's the first press? ... Unfortunately the records I do know the answers to hardly ever pop up at record stores which is why I always end up buying records I love but have no idea about pressings, inserts, price and so on. This results way too often in buying releases that miss the lyricsheet or overpaying.
Everytime that happens I say to myself that next time I'll pay more attention instead of getting carried away by the joy of having found a great album. While that works better and better it still happens and it drives me crazy. Like with the Killing Time LP featured in my last post and the one this is going to be about.
Being introduced to hardcore as an adolescent was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. When I got to check out some US classics I was hooked which lead to me discovering what was currently happening overseas and locally. But no one ever pointed me towards the classics from where I live and the last few years saw a pity growing inside of me concerning that hole in my musical education. Especially in regard of german punk. Taking babysteps into this realm I discovered one of the first german punk bands (according to the info provided on discogs) Below you can see what I believe to be the first press of their 2nd LP
Rotzkotz - lebensfroh + farbenfroh - No Fun Records NF08/15 - 1981
This is another record I picked up in Zürich, Switzerland. I am from Germany and therefore wasn't able to go online while browsing the offerings of the local vinyl dealers. There were a lot of really great records just sitting there. Most of those I wasn't sure about pressing info etc. so I took a quick foto to remember what to check on when being back at the hotel later. This one though I was dead sure had a good price and was the right pressing. So I bought it. What I didn't remember though is that it's supposed to have a booklet coming with it. Motherf$?#!%. Now I know why the price seemed good. Fooled again. I REALLY need to do something about that
