Owned since: 2015 Genre: Quirky German post-punk pop Where I bought it: At an art & culture festival in a distro’s bargain bin Year: 1980 Label/pressing: Innovative Communication Time to focus on something not English again. Ideal, from Berlin, were … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #5 Ideal – Ideal
Owned since: 2009 Genre: 80’s Pop Where I bought it: Thrift store Year: 1980 Pressing/label: CBS Netherlands I love Wham!, it’s something I’ve been quite outspoken out on this site. Not that they’re one of those 80’s pop bands with … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #4 Wham!-The Final
Owned since: 2008 Genre: Canadian jazz-punk Where I bought it: Long gone record store Year: 1989 Label/pressing: Wrong Records A big ? nn this one because while I don’t own Wrong on vinyl, I do own it on cassette and … Continue reading Crate Skimmer #?: Nomeansno’s Wrong & Other Records
Owned since: 2016-ish Genre: J-pop by way of noise artists Where I bought it: Long gone punk distro I bought tons of stuff Year: 2015 Label/pressing: Avex Trax/Specific Hijokaidan are one of Japan’s most classic noise music acts. Absolute legends … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #3: BiS Kaidan – 2
Owned since: 2019, even this could be way earlier Genre: The name says it all. Catchy punk music Where I bought it: The discount punk bin of my favorite record store ever Year: 2009 Pressing: La Vida Es Un Mus … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #2 The Shitty Limits’s Beware the Shitty Limits
With my vinyl collection shedding some weight through me reselling/returning it to the thrift stores last year I thought it would be a fun idea to do some album spotlights about, well, the stuff I own. Which is, well, a … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #1 Adam and The Ants’s Kings of the Wild Frontier
