Monday 15 December 2008

This World... REJECTED!

The first email I ever sent, back in 1995, was to Initial Records. This was back when email was some new thing, and email addresses were sequences of numbers. I remember someone else I used to know had an address which was something stupid like '11875987532474@compuserve.com'. Utter nonsense. The probability of actually getting the address correct and emailing the right person seemed slim. Anyway, I launched myself into this new world of technology to find out about records. Back then, Initial Records was a cool young label with a few releases in its catalog, and I wanted to ask the dude who ran the label, Andy Rich, what cool pressings he had that I could get. As it turned out, Andy was a cool guy who was happy to send me pretty much every pressing of every record he had put out up to that point. I then carried on buying everything he released until a few years ago when the label just fizzled out and died. I saw the band COLISEUM play a couple of years back, and asked Ryan Patterson if he knew what happened to Andy Rich, and he told me that he ended up moving to Las Vegas to work in a casino. As Initial would have said... Krazy!

One of my favourite Initial releases was the THIS WORLD REJECTED 7". This came on three colours of vinyl. The rarest was baby blue vinyl in a limited sleeve numbered out of 100. Even though I've had this record for about 13 years (holy shit!), I just picked up another one on ebay to replace mine, since the sleeve had deteriorated slightly. Here's the one that arrived today:

I bid on one of these on ebay a few months ago and it sold for way more than I expected. I think it went for like $55 or so. But this one that I won a couple of weeks ago I got for $1.50. Stoked!

If you have never heard this record and want to check it out, I have uploaded it for your amusement:

THIS WORLD REJECTED 7"

1 comment:

Head2Wall said...

I fucking love this record. I picked up my copy for 3 bucks in some worthless record shop in hickville, usa.