Warfool

Warpaint - the fool 2LP - 2010 Rough Trade RTRADLP580

My second Warpaint album was actually their first full length although I would consider it their second because 2009's debut release 'Exquisite Corpse' 12" is considered an e.p. by some but not me. If you don't consider records with a playtime like the one on their first output a full length you might be hard pressed to find a full length hardcore album at all :D

Anyway. This is more of the same. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just everything I love about this band. I can't get enough of this. I think their debut was recently re-issued. I hope for a decent price. I need that one. This band is perfect!

White light, white heat

Velvet Underground - white light / white heat LP - 1998 Verve Records V6-5046, Verve Records V/V6-5046

I knew it couldn't be true when I bought this record. Re-Issue after Re-Issue of this album pops up all over the place but I was holding out for an original first press.
This pressing looks very much like the real deal but it was cheap and in spectacular condition so I thought that it cannot be what I'm looking for. Yet I couldn't let it sit there. You know what it feels like to find out later that indeed it was what I was looking for. The pain of passing up a great opportunity was certainly something I feared more than purchasing my first copy of this record for less than what those most recent represses cost.

It's a beautiful, apparently official, Re-Issue on the very same label that originally released this classic in January 1968. Almost 47 years ago. Besides spelling mistakes and updated credits the whole artwork is true to the 1st pressing. Definitely not sorry for picking this one up. If you don't want to spend too much this is certainly one of the best versions to consider.