Early '90s were the good old days of garage-punk mailorder

[headcoats_down]

does anyone know where to get great garage and punk records via mailorder? before purchasing via the internet i used to get a lot of great records through the Skull Duggery Label from massachusets and also from the back of the Estrus catalog. as soon as something is released now it goes straight to Ebay i dont know really where to find stuff anymore. i'm only looking for vinyl 45s and Lps of mostly garage punk stuff.

[Unca Creepy]

yeah, I used to order a lot of new garage albums in the late '80s, early '90s from that New York dealer... what was the name of it?

They used to advertise in Goldmine (so did I once or twice back in '78)...

Of course, for the really rare records there was (and still is??) The Record Vault, headed by Zari... and he always had a few used bargains in the $10 or less range.

Haven't seen him in a while... does he still sell at the KUSF record swaps?

I have some old Record Vault catalogs, somewhere... and one (empty) Record Vault matchbook from their store (long gone) on Polk St. in San Francisco.

Leighton (lead singer of The Morlocks) "worked" there for a while!

[Thee Strawberry Mynde]

I used to use The Freak Emporium - http://www.freakemporium.com/
But sadly it shut last year :-(

[Ryan Katastrophe]

www.boomchickrecords.com

[beegeesfan]

It was underground medicine and know crap but they havent updated in decades it seems. Zaxxon mailorder updates once in a while.

[OUTBACKRnR - Grazza]

Bistro Distro is pretty good and cheap. Still use Bomp and Norton. Deadbeat is good. Used to do stuff myself, but had trouble shifting punk rock n roll and garage hear in Australia.

[kopper]

Goner, Norton, Crypt, Bomp, Soundflat, etc... c'mon, it's not like it's hard!

[lord satch]

yeah, I used to order a lot of new garage albums in the late '80s, early '90s from that New York dealer... what was the name of it?


Midnight?

[Unca Creepy]

yeah that was the one - Midnight Records!

They always shipped my garage comps and vinyl reissues right way, never screwed up - great to deal with...

I presume they're gone?

Hey, I'll try to find a 21st century Record Vault catalog, a priceless connection... as of 2000, Zari and the Vault were light years away from ever going online.

Just good old fashioned hand-scrawled 16 page catalogs, packed into the margins with the Cool and the Rare!

[kopper]

I used to use GEMM.com a lot, too... back when I had expendable income. :(

[Ryan Katastrophe]

Shit, I forgot all about them. They always had a healthy dose of punk rock on hand.

[headcoats_down]

does anyone remember the Skull Duggery Label in the early to mid-nineties? they released some of their own records, but mostly stuff from other labels. i wish i had bought all the mummies 45s and donnas 45s at the time. impossible to get now.

[Jimmyspaz]

Try Speed City Records in London Ontario Canada. Mike Todd will do his best to help you out . He has a website up.