Mission For Christ Pennies From Hell Mint Signed Dischord No Trend Minor Threat

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Mission For Christ Pennies From Hell Mint Signed Dischord No Trend Minor Threat

This is a signed mint copy of Pennies From Hell released in 1984 on No Trend Records by Mission for Christ.  The single has been signed on the front by lead singer Tex Borneo and comes from his collection of unsold singles.  The singles were never shrink wrapped and this particular single has never been played.  Mission for Christ was an eclectic part of the hardcore scene in Washington D.C. in the early 1980's.  The single was produced by Government Issue bassist and guitarist Tom Lyle.  Mission for Christ's discography, The Complete Sessions, was rereleased by Finnish label Ektro Records in 2012 where their website states that the Pennies From Hell single is "infamously scarce".

The insert of this rare collector's item is included.

from onechordisenough.blogspot.com
 

Mission for Christ

  Originally posted December 5, 2009
“Experimental punk, No Trend meet Blight at a Nuclear Crayons gig… some traces of the NY no wave sound, too. Interesting but a bit too artsy for my taste. B side has same music but vocals in dub reggae style (taped-delayed voice fragments).” Burkhard Järisch

“As the harDCore promoter, I ‘discovered’ the noise band No Trend and ran their label — releasing their first four discs (7", 12" and two LPs), and a single by John Gibson’s fucked-funk band, Mission For Christ.” Steven Blush

“Centered around bassist John Gibson (aka JC Agnatha), MFC featured a rotating cast that was equally well-versed in full-throttle punk, go-go funk, and art-damaged junk. Active when DC was too often portrayed as an urban wasteland split by racial and geographical divides, this loose-knit project flaunted an absurd, topical, and gleefully bizarre mesh of styles that recklessly disregarded subcultures, colors, and easy definitions. Its personnel casually bridged the disparate scenes that boiled over in their backyards, using dissonance, dub, and Dadaist nonsense to aesthetically fit in with the varied likes of Bad Brains, Scream, Void, 9353, Half Japanese, Outrage, the Psychotics, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, and anonymous street-corner percussion ensembles.” Jordan N. Mamone 
  Trouble Funk, Minor Threat (last show) and Big Boys @ Lansburgh’s, September 23, 1983 “The personnel in MFC were a diverse lot with diverse tastes. The band was kind of a mash-up of all those influences shoehorned into a punk format.”John Gibson 

“Mission for Christ might not have been as confrontational as No Trend, but its mix of sounds certainly challenges notions of hardcore’s orthodoxy: It excitedly combines elements of dub, dance, noise, art rock, and, most interestingly, unmistakable go-go beats. Perhaps that stylistic line-crossing was a political statement, but the band seems less interested in any radical message than a radically open musical sensibility. That’s evident by its name, which was neither a spiritual call to arms nor a sarcastic dig at religion, but simply a tribute to a musical inspiration: the in-house band at a church called Mission for Christ.” Marc Masters
  Noise-A-Thon '83" @ Lansburgh's, October 30, 1983. Mission For Christ as the opening band “The original version of the band was a side-project of my band the Psychotics a funk-reggae-rock band and the Static Disruptors, later to become Outrage, a Go-Go-Rock band. We figured let’s do a punk band, and that’s what came out. The second version of the band was some college buddies of mine and I having a good time. But in both cases, the aesthetic was ecclectic and indeed not tied to any punk orthodoxy. A good example is the time we played a gig in Stamford Ct., and pulled up to the venue blasting Miles Davis on the car stereo. The punks looked on with WTF expressions on their faces.” John Gibson 

“In the annals of East Coast hardcore, Mission for Christ is a largely forgotten footnote consigned to the memories of erudite collectors and No Trend obsessives. Frantic Google searches yield scant revelations save for an impressive array of Lutheran churches. This is a pity because the group's unselfconscious style-smelting and boundary-breaching still stounds necessary in the balkanized, tidily categorized tonal landscape of the present, where factions, cliques, and fashions abide despite the alleged democratization of music afforded by technology. But such is human nature. As a result of this CD retrospective, one can only hope that a disenfranchised punk or an enterprising DJ might concot a freaky cover or remix of ‘Pennies from Hell’. Perhaps they may feel compelled to join forces for the occasion, then utlimately opt to make their own glorious mess together instead.” Jordan N. Mamone 

and another mention here: http://lightningjukebox.blogspot.com/2012/02/mission-for-christ-reagan-is-plastic.html

No Trend Records #4
US 1984




COVER - NM  The cover is made out of paper and not cardboard stock and there is a little bending of the paper in the upper right hand corner, signed on the front

VINYL - M  Wonderful lustrous condition absolutely no scratches or blemishes, impeccable, this 7" single has never been played

INSERT - M perfect condition



 

 

 

 

 

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These beloved punk rock (and other assorted collectible) vinyl LPs have lived in my personal collection for thirty years.  They have always lived in individual plastic liners and are guaranteed to never have been carelessly tossed into a mosh pit.  They have also never been used to decapitate English zombies.  They may have been played at historically insignificant but outrageous parties at very loud volumes.  May they have another life in which they are loved by you as much as they were loved by me (or at least as much as Sid loved Nancy).

 

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