Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits LP LEGENDARY CHICAGO PUNK CLUB OZ COPY
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PLEASE NOTE: I WILL ONLY GRADE AN OPENED LP NEAR MINT (NM) IF I CAN GUARANTEE IT HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED (i.e. I AM THE ORIGINAL OWNER). OTHERWISE, NEAR MINT MINUS (NM-) IS THE ABSOLUTE HIGHEST GRADE I WILL ASSIGN AN OPENED LP.
Many years ago I received a phone call from a man named Dem wanting to sell some 12" singles from the 80s. I went to his house on the far northwest side of the city here in Chicago and from what I remember the 12" singles were pretty unspectacular. We talked a bit and after a while he said he also had some punk LPs as he used to own the very first punk bar in Chicago called Oz. I had never heard of it but I was curious about it to say the least. He had a fairly large collection of punk albums that he was selling on the internet but it was very time consuming and he asked if I would be interested in buying any of them. I looked through them and ended up buying quite a few. He had a story about nearly every band whose album I picked up or mentioned and regaled me with some of the most incredible anecdotes about the early days of punk that I have ever heard. He was an endless font of punk knowledge, articulate, obviously well educated and well read and a very gracious host. I still laugh to myself when I think of how, at one point, he suddenly stopped mid-sentence to lay and out and subsequently snort a huge line of Ritalin (or at least that's what it was claimed to be) and then picked up right where he left off after it had been Hoovered in classic punk etiquette. After I left I tried to do some research to find out more about Oz but at the time there wasn't much ink dedicated to the early punk scene in Chicago and the legendary Busted At Oz compilation LP had been out of print for decades. In the years that followed, however, a groundswell of accolades and interest in the early Chicago punk scene (see the You Weren't There documentary/compilation LP as exhibit A) has seen Oz take its rightful place in punk history as one of, if not THE most important clubs in the city. The Busted At Oz compilation was rediscovered by a new generation of punks (including me) and was finally reissued on CD in 2009 and vinyl in 2011. It now stands as a towering testament to the power and lasting impact that Chicago punk had on the world. Nearly every LP I bought that day had a small tag in the top right hand corner on the front cover with "Oz" written in pen to identify it as the club's property. This Cockney Rejects LP was Dem Hopkins' personal copy for play at the bar and still has the original sticker in the top right hand corner. A one-of-a-kind item from punk's first wave and a true piece of Chicago punk history so don't miss out. This is a rare original UK pressing from 1980 on EMI that includes the original black & white rigid printed inner sleeve with rounded corners and rows of very amusing photos of the band. LP is G visually but plays fine and cover is VG/VG- with a few small peel spots.
I USE GOLDMINE GRADING:
MINT (SEALED)
NEAR MINT: LOOKS UNPLAYED VG++: VERY VERY MINIMAL SIGNS OF USE
VG+: AVERAGE SIGNS OF USE, NOTHING DEEP, SUPERFICIAL VG: STILL AN OK RECORD, NOISE BETWEEN SONGS
GOOD: WORN BUT PLAYS FINE WITH DISTRACTING NOISE POOR: FILLER COPY ONLY. LOTS OF SCRATCHES
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