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Found this one on my browsing of ebay – if you want to bid you have less than 12 hours to do so: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fear-of-Smell-LP-1993-Punk-Compilation-EXTREMELY-RARE-/230818492050?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item35bddaae92#ht_500wt_1186
Clearly a play on Life’s Blood most excellent song “Not for the Weak”, “Not for the Cheek” seems to profoundly state that we shouldn’t stuff our faces. Fourth of July BBQ’s warning for your stomachs.
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This one came in while I was away in the UK (Anarchy?), from Daniel Malin who got it while at Ken Prank’s house. Daniel’s no longer the king of bland covers although there’s a charm to those simple covers…. speaking of which if you have covers that aren’t in here shoot me an e-mail and I’ll get them posted as soon as possible. If you now own a copy that’s listed, let us know what you think.
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As I listen to Abwarts, and check e-mail, this one came through and I thought, “Fuck. For the children, and the children’s children… I haven’t updated in a long fucking time.” So here’s the update. According to Alex:
here’s the copy i traded my arse bagel creativity cover for. came out of max ward’s shit.
Which makes me want to yell two things… “MAX WARD HAS THE CLEANEST ASSHOLE EVER” and “TRADE UPDATE” as if I was on TSN waiting for the GMs of the NHL to make a trade to justify the existence of Trade Deadline hockey updates on not one but four channels. Also, it would be remiss of me to not mention the fabulous Infest blog has been added to the Blogroll (as well as a couple other blogs that are dedicated to the nerditry of record collecting punk records). Do your work productivity a favor and hit up those blogs, leave some comments and participate. Speaking of participation, if you have a copy of the comp that hasn’t been seen yet (or if it has, throw a comment on the copy you own!) submit it. It’s lonely over here….
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Here’s one that got stuck in cyberspace hell (aka my Inbox – or to riff on a Mens Recovery Project idea, a men’s room). This one was sent in way back in March. Fuck. As a bonus for waiting all that time it’s #100. It looks quite like it might’ve been hit with a shit stain. Here’s the story from the owner, Josh Baker:
Just picked this up at Smash! Records in Washington, DC. The owner played me the Rich Oliver track and I was sold.
Not only a consumer with fine taste, the store didn’t even play the best track, by Sam & Joe.
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Found a few stragglers in the e-mail. Sorry about that… spam and the tonne of e-mail I get on a daily basis, guess these slipped. My loss of time, is your gain. Love the ode to the Rolling Stones, or just a giant tongue. You decide.
Here’s what Greh had to say about it:
Submitting one that the record shop I work at is selling on eBay. We had it on the wall for a while and though no one bought, plenty looked at it.
This one bears a resemblance to: Variation#82, Variation #6, maybe Variation #22 and Variation #29. Also, if your record store is selling one, link to your store as well. People who collect records want to know!
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A submission via HRPS board (if you know, you know). As posted there:
My roomates. I found this in Amoeba back in 2003 while on tour in Cali. I already had a copy and my roomate found an Ottawa/Jihad lp he didn’t really care about, so we swapped.
So, sorry about the lack of posts, these seemingly have dried up. I might have a couple in the hopper, but I’ll have to dig through the e-mail. So if you have one, send it on over.
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This submission comes courtesy of Shivaun – here’s what was said:
Awesome project and really cool blog. I love looking through all the different cover variations. Mine is a pretty tame fingerpainted one with some wacky text organization. I got this from a set sale on a message board a couple years ago for like $15.
Seems like this pattern has struck before – some similarities in the other painted ones for sure. If you’re interested in pursuing this avenue of painting please refer to these examples: Variation #77, Variation #72, Variation #16 or Variation#31.
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Surely this is another sun-like masterpiece? What is it about the mid-90’s hardcore aesthetic that was so fascinated with the sun? So many ads for so many labels that featured the sun in various tribal configurations. Never mind the fact I have a very small tattoo of a sun on my back that was put there in the mid-90’s? Either way, got this in the e-mail the other day, from Michael:
Here’s my copy of Fear of Smell, which I recently acquired. My local record dealer, Phil Spectacle, who used to who have shop here in Vancouver and also used to promote gigs, found this at a yard sale between some really badly warped records. Luckily this one and the few around it were in good condition. It looks like it was painted by the same Dave guy who did the volcano one that’s on ebay right now.
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I haven’t been keeping up with ebay at all, which is totally due to the fact I have zero cash. Anyways, a dim rememberence that I should check it out once in a while, has yielded this gem. It could be a yeti eating a hot dog dropped from the sky, or perhaps a volcano exploding. It’s currently on ebay here if you have a hole burning in your pocket with the $350 buy it now offer on the table. I would be an asshole and offer 1/10th of the price, but well I guess I’m not that much of an ass. Either way, great cover, good restart to the blog. This cover has similarities between it and #24, #16 and #10.
Quick follow up note:
Hey there!
I was going on about how much I wanted a FOS to my girlfriend a while ago and she went and bought me version 93 on ebay!You gotta love rich benefactresses!
I think she got it for about 70 dollars, thats only about 30 in pounds.
This one has a secret message scratched around the sticker on the vinyl with a pin or something.
It reads:
NR-19216AX
NHOEP CRESTE SOF BENMUR SNIDGHITM OFULNOLMNR-19216BX
CELTLOC. SNEDHIDRUX STYXIXIS LORDLAS ZIRPEAt first I thought this was crusty latin but an internet anagram thing helped me translate it to:
phone secret fos number midnights fullmoon
Collect. sixhundred sixtysix dollars prizeI guess there isn’t really a prize but the message is cool enough, I used to hide secret messages in the back of all the cds I borrowed so this is super cool to me.,
Once I get another camera (broken) I’ll comment on the blog with pictures of the message.
So yeah #93 lives in Scotland now though It’ll move back to Ireland with me eventually, all animals go home to die 😀Thanks for the FOS documentation you rule!!!
JJ
