Flex Your Head TEST PRESSING Minor Threat Dischord RARE

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  Flex Your Head TEST PRESSING Minor Threat Dischord RARE DESCRIPTION: This is a very rare test pressing of the DC Hardcore compilation LP, "Flex Your Head", in mint condition. Dischord Records, (Dischord No. 7), Washington, DC, 1982. "Flex Your Head" was Dischord Records' first LP, after having put out six 7" EPs the previous year. The bands on this sampler included The Teen Idles, Untouchables, State of Alert (S.O.A.), Minor Threat, Government Issue, Youth Brigade, Red C, Void, Iron Cross, Artificial Peace, and Deadline. This test pressing was intended for radio stations and fanzines, but was never sent out. Record is in its original paper inner sleeve (which has definitely yellowed with age), with 8 1/2" x 11" xerox glued to the paper inner sleeve. Xerox is original, from 1982, and is copy of right half of back cover art for "Flex Your Head", showing track listing.  Record itself has Nashville Record Productions label on one side (with handwritten in-house catalog number), and strange label on the other side (looks to be a faint offset from some other record's label, so partially legible type is all reversed).  
CONDITION / PROVENANCE:  Vinyl itself has never been played.  It would be in mint condition were it not for two things: some odd finger marks from 1982 (see photo), and the fact that the paper label on one side was torn before it was applied to record (see photo).  It came like this from the record plant - you can see the missing paper is actually underneath the rest of the label.  It has been kept in a plastic sleeve away from light and dust for the last 28 years.  The paper sleeve is a bit rumpled, and the 8 1/2" x 11" xerox with all the band names had come unglued over the years, so I very carefully glued the xerox back onto the inner sleeve using nice acid-free glue.  Now it looks exactly as it did before.  Some of the old, yellowed excess glue is visible.  This record is unconditionally guaranteed to be original, from 1982.  It came from my (Jeff Nelson - Minor Threat/Dischord Records) punk archives, which are being downsized after continuing to be described variously as "too big" and "insane" or containing "more than my potential kids or grandkids will ever want."  Please see my auction for lots of other punk/hardcore flyers and records as well as other jetsam I'll be putting up for sale...... 
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