two steps closer

After receiving an empty box that should have contained my Iron Age 12" pre-order and without even getting a reply from the guy who put out the record, I thought this would be a fucked up week (regarding records).
Well, today this week came to a good end. Two (filled) packages, two times Internal Affairs!

The first one:


A Test Press for the IA/Allegiance split. A very early release. Rivalry Records wasn't even called Rivalry, but just Rival Records when this came out. Bidding at ebay, I was afraid that I have to compete not only against IA collectors, but against Allegiance collectors as well. It turned out that there was no need to worry. I got this record for way less than I expected (Two days earlier, somebody outbid me on the s/t 12" Test Press...).


Impossible to see it in my stupid picture, but mine is #15 out of 20.
I think it's weird that this isn't the rarest version, as somewhere are rootbeer variations out there. Still have to pick up one of those....

The other grab was the following:


The Dalek 12" on clear vinyl out of 100, as far as I know.
When this record came out, I wanted to order all four versions. So I put them in my shopping cart and noticed that the Triumvir store wanted around 120,- $ including shipping to germany....
I mean 60,- $ for shipping four records, are you kidding me? Keep them!
I was angry and didn't want to collect Internal Affairs anymore. A few days later, the records where sold out and I knew that I needed them... In the end, this would probably cost more than 120,- $. Stupid me. After picking up two colors from Deathwish and Grave Mistake Records and the black one for cheap from a spanish record store through ebay, I still needed the clear one. Turned out this wasn't easy. One day, I was posting stupid things in a record collector thread on the Bridge 9 board and got a PM that someone had a copy and wanted to get rid of it. As I had been looking so long without finding one, I instantly made an offer (which might have been a bit too high) and we had a deal. So now, 8 days later I finally have all four of them:

Internal Affairs Demo again

My buddy Dan is into collecting demo tapes for a while now.
At the moment, this is not really my business. Sometimes at shows I would pick one up. Of course, I need the tapes of bands that I am specialized in, but that's it. So make sure not to send me all your demo tapes, send them to Dan -> Danny's Tradelist. :o)
As I dig Internal Affairs, I couldn't refuse an offer on the Bridge 9 board, where someone wanted to get rid of IA's demo tape. A few mails and incredibly 5 days later (for the distance Kansas City -> Germany) I finally held it in my hands:


This is #82 of 100. After completing the 7" repress a few days ago, I finally have the original demo as well. Let's see what's up next. :o)

Wise Up

When I started out, I was not yet into the idea of getting multiple copies of records (Maybe because I simply couldn't afford it). My goal was to get everything on vinyl in at least one version and that's it. I would prefer the most limited versions, but I thought that it would be impossible for me to get every record in every version. As I wanted something similar, I started the hunt for complete collections of bands I really really like. I don't know why, but it happended to be Right Brigade (will tell that story later) and then Internal Affairs. So here we go with my latest addition to this obsession:

The Internal Affairs demo 7" with Wise Up Zine out of 50.
I already own this, but only without the zine. That obviously didn't feel "complete" to me, so I had to get another copy (now I have a zine-less spare copy for you). The zine contains interesting interviews with Matt Summers and John Joseph, the record awesome tunes by an awesome band that I truly miss. This makes the demo 7" part of my collection complete. Too bad that there is still so much more IA left to search for...