Speak

So last Sunday I went into the city to go record shopping. I don't know what it was, but I just felt like I was going to find a lot of good records. April fools on myself, I only came back with one. Speak 714's "Knee Deep in Guilt". I know nothing about Speak, besides listening to the download i had once or twice.


One thing i found interesting is that on the cover the name is just SPEAK and on the sticker on the original shrinkwrap it said "now known as speak seven one four". I guess at some point from when the sleeves were pressed and when the record actually came out they added the 714. I tried looking this up online but i found nothing.


One problem I have when I go to record stores is that I always forget what records I'm looking for, or even what bands I want to look for. For whatever reason the moment I set foot in a record store the information just slips from my brain. So if I want to find what im looking for, I need to look through every single record in the punk/hc sections, or wherever i think bands i listen to may be. It gets frustrating sometimes, I need to go back to making lists of records to buy and keeping it in my wallet.

Vogel

Buried Alive is easily my favorite Scott Vogel band. I enjoy all his other bands (slugfest, despair, terror), but none of them compare to Buried Alive for me. I got this 7" in the mail yesterday and must have listened to it at least 20 times last night, solidifying it as my favorite Buried Alive material. When i got The Death of Your Perfect World it didnt come off my record player for at least a week. I don't really know where I'm going with this. I guess i'll just spin this record some more.

Indecision?

So this straight edge band Discourse is from down south somewhere, I think Atlanta. I was browsing b9 and saw a thread about them. What caught my eye was that their FFO included the almighty Indecision. I checked them out and the cover for there mp3 demo was an Indecision ripoff cover. I checked them out and was very happy with what i heard. Definite 90's hc influence.

This is the first physical incarnation of their music. Bitter Melody Records put out this demotape limited to 100. Incidentally, this is the same label that released the Unorthodox re-issue. I love how the label put a more into it and got heavy cardstock and white/printed tapes. Excellent job. I hope this band tours to NY soon.

Hot topic to the rescue?

When I first heard about the Sainthood Reps I didnt give them any attention at all. Maybe about a year after their album was released I checked it out. I immediately fell in love with it as it felt like an extension of Brand New and really had that defining Long Island sound that I love. I went out to buy the LP only to find out that it hadn't been released on vinyl yet(i hadn't done my homework) so I bought the cd.

I recently deleted all my social media outlets so it's been difficult to keep up when things are being released. But i was looking through Incendiary's twitter, which brought me to the reps twitter. Where I found out that Monoculture had been released on vinyl.....a month an a half before. I saw on their tumblr that all the limited pressings had already sold out and was bummed about it. For whatever reason i checked the hot topic store(their had been a hot topic exclusive color) and saw that they still had it in stock, in spite of the reps tumblr saying it was sold out. I immediately bought it and 4 days late it arrived in all its glory.

Sainthood Reps - Monoculture hot topic exclusive on pink vinyl out of 108


I need to put this record on repeat and take a night drive to Montauk.

I'll Take My Chances Anyway

I don't collect Grey Area by any means, I only own one record(the recent split with Go Rydell) besides this one. But I feel its an injustice to not own the Self Titled lp. To me its the epitome of melodic hardcore and should be in every persons record collection. This came in the mail 2 days ago via ebay, and i got a great price on it too. No insert though, did it not come with one or did the seller not include it?

Changes

So I haven't posted anything in my blog in a long time. I pretty much forgot I had it.
Anyway, I get a lot of stuff in the mail. Maybe because I have too much free time and spend too much of said free time on the internet, causing me to buy things. So I'm going to turn this blog into basically a mailbox report. We'll see how long I actually stick with it.

Good Mail day

Yesterday was a great mail day:

Kill Your idols shirt
Down to nothing Smorgasboard ripoff shirt
Mourningside a.d. - Confessions of Disbelief 7" on clear
Capital - Homefront TEST PRESS!!

I'm trying to collect every colorway of the DTN smorgasboard ripoff shirts, I have about 4 so far, theres a lot more than that. I also just won the sickest DTN shirt there is on ebay, but I'll wait to post that til it comes in the mail