Ian Leck is known by different people for different things. He is probably best known around the world for being the vocalist for Voorhees, one of the most successful UK hardcore bands of all time. The skateboarding population in the north of England know him as the owner of the Wisdom skate shops. A photographer for Kerrang knows him as a guy who kicked him in the head in Bradford once. And me, I know him in a capacity that few others do.. as a total nerd. Here is why…

 

What’s the date today, and how is life treating you at this moment in time?
Early April 2005 [It took more than a day to answer all these questions] and let’s just say life could be worse.

How old are you?
Thirty Six and a half.

Where do you live?
Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.

What do you do in life at the moment?
I own a couple of Skateboard shops and I work in one of them, I sing in a band called Walk The Plank, I am trying to learn to play guitar, I like to go and explore old historic heritage sites with my girlfriend Jenny on my days off, and spend too much time in front of my computer listening to records when I am at home.

Why do you think that I decided to interview you?
Because you are nosey? You think I might say something interesting? Someone else might be interested in what I have to say and will buy your zine?

How long have you been into hardcore/punk?
The long answer is this…I really got into punk in late 1984 after ‘The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle’ was shown on Channel 4, but from 1980 onwards I was into stuff like Adam and the Ants which was pop music of the time, their ‘Ant Music’ single was the first piece of vinyl I ever bought. I played the punkier sounding ‘Fall-In’ from the b-side a lot more than the a-side, I didn’t know at the time but it is about the infamous Sex Pistols Punk Gig/Film Festival at the Screen On The Green in Islington from 1976.The first Hardcore I ever heard was in 1984, it was the Dead Kennedys ‘Fresh Fruit’ LP, it was the craziest sounding singing I had ever heard and I wasn’t sure if I liked it or not, but I thought the music was great. In early 1985 I started hanging out with a guy called Darrell Hindley and he did me a tape with loads of stuff on it and that was it I was hooked, hardcore for life, I started skateboarding at about the same time, and Darrell and I started our first band with Sean Readman on Drums too. The short answer is 20 to 25 years, depending on what you view as punk.

Are you of the opinion that you can ever be “too old” to be into hardcore?
I can’t see how you can be too old for anything, if you are willing and able, do whatever you want.

How long have you been collecting records?
I started buying records in 1980 at age 11 but I didn’t get the collector bug until a lot later, probably around 1988.

What was it that made you first start collecting records?
I don’t remember there being one defining thing, but when I was 16 years old I got a job as a car mechanic and suddenly went from having £10 a week pocket money to getting paid about £70 a week. Even after I paid my parents £10 for board and bought my lunch every day and paid for travel to and from work, I still had almost £50 left over to get drunk every friday and Saturday and the only other things I bought were records. I was just buying every new punk and hardcore release I could get my hands on as well as thrash metal like Exodus and Slayer and chart pop punk like Transvision Vamp [I really had a thing for Wendy James when I was a teenager] and then buying older stuff like the Ramones and Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I definitely wasn’t a collector at that point, I just wanted to hear new exciting bands.It wasn’t until about 1988 when I was singing in The MacDonalds [just before we kicked out our drummer and changed the name to Steadfast so we could become a straight edge band], I went to Sean Readman’s house one friday after work to let him hear what I had bought that week, and he had three 7” records that he had been given by Paul Rugman-Jones who was our bass player, they were Revelation no. 2, 3 + 4, aka the Together comp, Sick Of It All, and Gorilla Biscuits. After listening to those records I just HAD to get my hands on them, a couple of weeks later the S.O.I.A., GBs, Side By Side and No For An Answer all came in to Volume Records in Newcastle and I bagged them all, the Together comp eluded me for the next ten years, and it was through trying to get a copy of that record and other similar straight edge releases that started me off trading with people in the states and it just snowballed, as I had to make a Wants List in order to trade with people.

Possibly the hardest question of all. WHY do you collect records?
My reasons have changed over the years, first it was because I just wanted to hear the music, then I wanted to own records that would be the envy of my friends as we all started collecting at about the same time [I bought some total crap at times just because it was cool and everyone else wanted it], although Sean had a few years head start on the rest of us and he was more selective, he had all the Xclaim records by about 1986 and he bought a lot of stuff when it came out going right back to the early UK scene in 76-77. I’ve bought records just to make myself feel better at low points in my life, they make a much better crutch than beer. Now I sometimes feel like it is my life’s work and I am bound to it, then I get something I have been searching for since 1988 and I realise how much I love the way they look and feel almost as much as listening to the music on them.

Is it important for the bands you have been in to release limited edition records?
Not really, I always wanted the Voorhees records to be available for as long as possible, that is why most of them are so easy to find, and the only differences in the pressings were done to make it look better, if something hadn’t worked out on the first press we would try and correct it for the next pressing. The only record that I tried to make a limited version for was the Steadfast 7”, I still had quite a lot of them left in 1992 including a box of 50 with no sleeves. I knew I was going to be driving Ironside to the Vort ‘n Vis Hardcore Festival in Belgium so I photocopied a map of the area where the festival was being held and stuck that over a regular sleeve with ‘Limited Edition’ printed on the front. I photocopied 50 of them onto red paper and numbered them all, I sold them all for about £3 each, which was about £1 more than most records back then. It was more about making money to pay for the trip than about having a rare record though.

Have you ever specifically asked a label to make a limited edition version of any of your records? If so, what was the reaction?
The records that had limited covers or small coloured vinyl runs were under the control of the record labels, we never requested limited editions ever. Apart from test pressings the rarest Voorhees record is the ‘What you see is what you get’ 7” on Crust records with the white sleeve, we just made 200 sleeves to go on tour as the real ones hadn’t come back from the printers yet. The 100 copies of the Walk The Plank 7inch with the pop-up sleeve was all Simon Fox’s idea and he just asked us if we were into it and then he sorted it out with Alex from Zandor.

Do you have a single favourite record out of all the rare pieces of vinyl that you yourself have appeared on? (I’m think the Walk The Plank boatshow edition 7″ would get my vote. although, admittedly, I haven’t seen all the Voorhees test press variations)
I have to agree with you there, the Walk The Plank ‘Limited Edition of 100 - Pop-Up Sleeve - including One Postcard in a Series of Five - Sealed in a Stickered Mailer - Available only at the Voorhees Re-union Show - Night Of The Living Dead 4 at sea on the World Famous Mersey Ferry Boat - Friday the 29th October 2004’ 7”, or ‘The Boat Show Edition’ for short, it is definitely the one I’m most proud of. I have a Voorhees one sided 7” acetate with two cover songs on it which is cool, It’s a one off which I had made when I was at Porkys cutting the first Voorhees LP, it’s got our versions of ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme’ by Black Flag and ‘State Oppression’ by Raw Power, but the sleeve I made for it lets it down, I’m not very artistic so it’s a bit poor, I might try to make a better one one day.

 

      

What was the first record you actively sought to acquire, rather than just bought (i.e. one that took a lot of effort to get hold of)?
I already answered that before but the one record which has been on my wants list the longest and I have never seen one up for sale or trade in the whole time I have been after it is The Necros 4 song EP which usually gets referred to as Sex Drive. There was only 100 of those ever made, I have an original sleeve for one, and I have a couple of different bootlegs of it. I would trade a lot of good stuff to get one of those but I think I would rather buy it if the chance arose.

When did you start labelling yourself as a “collector”?
Probably about 1989, the same time I realised I had a problem, Sean pointed it out to me when we were sharing a house in Durham, I could never just go in my room and come out again without putting a record on, even if I was only in there for 30 seconds to grab my jacket as I was leaving the house, I never realised it was a strange thing to do until he mentioned it, I should be in rehab… ‘My name is Ian and I’m a record collector, I’ve been purchase free for almost seven hours’. I think I really thought I was a record collector from the first time I went to a record fair, it was probably about a year after I started trading with people in the Maximum Rock N Roll classified adverts. I never went to fairs expecting to find any hardcore records, I was looking for all the british records that were on other peoples wants lists so I could trade them for the records I wanted, but then I met John Esplen and he had the coolest stall I have ever seen at a record fair to this day. He had so much good stuff, I just used to spend my whole wage in a day and then borrow from friends and try and pay them back over the rest of the month so I could do it all over again at the next fair.

The term “hardcore” means a lot to different people. What kinda records are you mainly interested in collecting these days. I mean like early Dischord, early Boston stuff, Revelation stuff?
I have almost all of the records that I want from those labels and scenes, I just have a few small gaps to fill these days, as far as the term Hardcore goes, it means ‘fast noisy punk rock’ to me, I still think of the metal sound that a lot of today’s hardcore bands have as ‘crossover’, but I don’t really stray very far from the sound all the early 80s bands defined. I still buy records by bands that are around today who have that sound like Dead Stop, Career Suicide, Out Cold etc.

Have people ever made fun of you for collecting records?
Probably, but I am too into it to notice or care enough to remember, Jenny doesn’t understand it and she calls me a nerd, but she is a book collector which is worse as she can’t even read them if she wants them to retain their value. It’s cool as long as I don’t spend so much that we can’t pay the rent and bills etc.

Tell me the story of how you got your Chung King.
The short version is Jordan Cooper who owns Revelation gave one to me.The way it came about is because I had known him for a long time, I first met him when he was on tour with the Gorilla Biscuits in 1989 as they all stayed at our house, which was home to most of Steadfast at the time and we had played a couple of shows with GB. The next time we met was on the first Quicksand tour, they were all crammed in a really small van with all the equipment and merchandise, so they asked my friend Alex if he would drive two of them to all the shows if they gave him money for the fuel and I went along for the ride and helped out lugging gear around. Jordan told me I should write to him and he would send me some limited records as a thank you for helping out, but being such a lazy bum I didn’t get around to it. About a year later I was tour manager for the UK leg of the Rorschach Tour and after the London show we went back to Christie the booking agent’s house to sleep, the next morning when we got up Jordan was there. He was good friends with Christie and had come over to visit, so we got talking and I mentioned my brother Neil was planning a touring holiday of the USA the next year and he needed some places to stay on the west coast, Jordan said to just call him when he was in the area. So Neil went over and ended up working in the Revelation warehouse to pay for his keep for a few weeks. While he was there he became good friends with the guys from Farside, and when their booking agent fucked up booking their european tour a few months later they called Neil who put them in touch with me, and I booked the whole five week tour in two weeks, just in time for them arriving in europe. So again Jordan was very grateful that I had helped out one of his bands. The next year Neil finished his graphics degree and went back to Revelation to work as their in house graphics guy, unfortunately he was unable to get his green card and had to return to England, but before he left I asked him to speak to Jordan and grab me one of each of the most recent releases on colour vinyl. When he got back he gave me my box of records, and said ‘That’s all the new stuff, and a couple of older ones too, oh, and Jordan put another one in as a surprise and told me to give it to you’. So I opened the box expecting to find something a bit cool like a Chain of Strength on clear as I had mentioned that to Jordan previously, but instead right on the top there was my copy of Judge ‘Chung King Can Suck It’ LP. So I guess all those brownie points I got for helping out a friend added up and paid off in the end.

Do you mainly trade or buy these days?
I buy as much as I can but I still have doubles of some stuff so trades are not out of the question, the last trade I did was with Tidal Dave from Walk The Plank, I gave him my spare copy of The Germs ‘Forming’ 7” and he gave me his spare Misfits ‘Evilive’ 7”.

Did you ever regret trading those coloured vinyl Revelation records with me back in 1995 or whenever it was? If so, do you still regret it?
When we did that trade I had no Idea how rare some of them were, I was under the impression that Revelation were still doing a couple of thousand rather than a couple of hundred on colour so it was no big deal to me. I felt a bit dumb for not knowing otherwise, and I would have driven a much harder bargain if I had known. I miss having the Sensefield LP on purple as I think that is a great record, and I wish I still had the Farside on clear, but I’m not losing sleep over it.

What’s the best trade you ever did?
It’s hard to say I have had some really good ones so I’ll let you be the judge.I did a couple of trades with Walter Schreifels, the first time I got a Project X 7” for an old Corrosion Of Conformity T-shirt and the second time I got a Necros ‘IQ 32’ 7” for a James longsleeve. [James are a crap indie band from the late 80’s] I picked up a couple of 7” by the nazi band Skrewdriver on a market stall for £1 each and traded them with Frazer from False Face who had just dropped out of the hardcore scene to get into all that type of stuff. Anyway I got the Last Rights 7” and the Negative Approach 7” from him.

What’s the worst / stupidest trade you ever did?
I can’t think of any that I would say were bad or stupid, but one I regret is when I gave Aaron from Ulcer/Pain Driver my Antidote 7” for his SSDecontrol ‘The Kids Will Have Their Say’ LP. I thought I was getting a good deal as I had previously had two Antidote 7” so I didn’t think it would be too hard to get another, whereas I had never seen a SSD 1st LP apart from a bootleg. When I first started trading I made a mistake and sent out a bootleg ‘cause I didn’t know any better, but the guy was cool and just kept it and sent me something with less value instead.

Do you buy / collect non-hardcore records too? If so, what sorta stuff? If not, why not?
Yeah, I buy quite a few old 80’s pop singles, usually from car boot fairs or charity shops, I’m not fanatical about it or anything and I only tend to buy songs I know, it’s just to reminisce really. I also have a few 50’s and 60’s classics.

In total, roughly how many records do you currently own?
About 1300 LPs, 2500 7”s, 50 10”s, 8 8”s and less than 100 cd’s. So in Total that is almost 4000.

What’s the most money you have ever spent on a single record, & what record was it?
I paid $225 US for my Urban Waste 7”, but that was when the dollar was stronger against the pound, so it was about £150. There have been others that come very close at around $200, but that one is the highest.

 

      

What’s the most money you have ever spent at one time on a batch of records? If it was a lot, could you actually afford it, or did you have to borrow the money or something?
I’ve never bought a load of stuff at once as in buying a whole collection off someone, but I have bought up to fifty things at once quite often, but I never spend too much and let it get out of hand. How boring eh?

Have you ever stolen any records? If so, tell me the story.
Yeah from record shops, but never from friends although I have been a victim of the borrow-steal a few times myself, it’s the easiest way to lose your records. [That reminds me - Si Ashton still has about half a dozen of my LPs]. I used to steal LP sleeves from the big chain stores and then wait for the vinyl to get put in the bargain bins with a ‘Only 50p / missing sleeve’ sticker on it and then buy it. I also used to steal from a second hand shop by buying something as soon as I went in and then I would fill the carrier bag with more records as I browsed the racks. I was skint and on the dole when I did it and I feel bad about it now, but the chain stores can suck it.

Do you own any records that most kids would kill for that cost you pretty much nothing?
Yeah, but where to start… like all the early Revelation releases that I bought when they came out on colour vinyl, I got the Cause For Alarm 7” for 50p in Virgin, the Reagan Youth 12” was £2.50 in Virgin a week later, Minor Threat ‘Out Of Step’ second press with the photos on the back of the sleeve was only £3.50.I didn’t keep these ones but I bought the Misfits ‘Evilive’ 7”, ‘Bullet’ 7”, ‘3 Hits From Hell’ 7” and ‘Walk Among US’ LP original press, which collectively would’ve fetched over £500 at the time, who knows how much now?, I paid just £100 for the lot on behalf of Tidal Dave and he gave me all his Misfits bootlegs as a finders fee.

Which record (or records) are you most proud to own?
For Bragability it has to be Chung King and Project X, but the ones I am most proud of having are collections that I have completed like all the early Dischord stuff, or all the Xclaim releases, or everything Black Flag put out, or the fact that I have 25 different pressings of the Sex Pistols ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ LP.

What record in your collection would you say is the most valuable & how much do you estimate it to be worth?
I am gonna have to say Judge ‘Chung King Can Suck It’ LP again as nothing else comes close, and as far as how much it’s worth, maybe $1000 US, but to me it’s priceless, considering it was given to me as a present, I don’t think I could ever sell it or trade it.

Tell me a good record story, i.e. an interesting tale of how you acquired one of your records.
I found a copy of the Neos ‘Hassibah Gets The Martian Brain Squeeze’ on Rat Cage Records in the gutter at the side of a main road in Sunderland. Basically when I was about 17, I walked out of work on my lunch hour to head into town, and I noticed a 7” lying in the gutter minus its sleeve, so I picked it up with the intention of throwing it down the road to see how far it would go, but when I looked at it more closely I noticed it had a Pushead drawing on the centre label so I cleaned it off on my sweatshirt and tried to find a band name but there wasn’t one, but it had a matrix that read MOTR (which stands for ‘Mouth Of The Rat’)and then a number. I actually misread it as MORT and thought it was a conflict record or something else on the Mortarhate label. I had a band practice later that night so I showed it to Sean and he recognised it instantly as the Neos, so I took it home and listened to it and it was some of the craziest thrash I had ever heard. I borrowed the cover and lyrics off Sean and photocopied them. Although it was covered in tiny scratches it played fine and it was my only copy until about five years ago when I bought another one off ebay. I sold the one i found with the copied sleeve for 2 dollars at a Voorhees gig when we were on tour in the US shortly after I got the one from ebay. I wish I still had it now after telling that story.

Have you ever sold or traded a record, and then wanted to get it again? If so, tell me the story.
Many times, as well as Antidote which I mentioned earlier another one I really regret not keeping is The Young And The Useless ‘Real Men Don’t Floss’ on Ratcage, it’s similar to the Beastie Boys ‘Polywog Stew’ and it actually has one of them playing on it. I can’t seem to find another one anywhere. I was reluctant to trade it but allowed myself to be talked into it, I can’t even remember what I got for it anymore which shows how much I’ve tried to forget doing the trade.

What one record that you don’t own would you most like to own?
Sex Pistols ‘God Save The Queen’ on A+M. The last one I saw sold for over £3,000 at one of those big London auction houses.

Do you keep all your records in protective sleeves? If so, poly bags or PVC sleeves?
For my LPs I use polythene sleeves, but for my 7inches I use both, I have a really anal system that works. When I get a new 7inch I take the vinyl out of the sleeve and place it in a paper sleeve if it is not already in one. Then I place the record sleeve inside a polythene sleeve with the opening always at the top. Next I take a PVC sleeve and put the polythene covered record sleeve inside it with the opening of the PVC sleeve always on the right, and finally I put the paper sleeve with the vinyl inside, into the PVC sleeve behind the polythene covered record sleeve. When I say this system works I mean it really protects your records, and I have experience of this. I had a box of records out on the floor of my room and Nick Royles went into my room with his lunch to watch my TV while he ate. He managed to spill a full pint of blackcurrant juice into my record box, but because of the way I had my records none of them got damaged, I just had to wipe a few down and put new paper bags on them, but all of the sleeves were unharmed.

Where do you store your 7″s?
I keep them in cut down comic boxes that hold approximately 150 records each.

Where do you store your 12″s?
They are shelved with the spine facing out. All my records are in my spare room with my music system, computer, guitars, books, TV, video, games consoles, toys, etc. If I was american I would be calling it a den.

What’s your opinion on the 10″ format?
Pointless really, it costs the same to have made as a twelve inch and usually the amount of music on them would fit on a seven inch, and they are a pain in the arse to store, same goes for all the other non-standard sizes that people make.

What’s your opinion on picture discs?
Novelty, and a bit of a rip off as far as the packaging goes. I wish I had the wall space and I would display all mine, they do look pretty cool as clocks though, and shaped picture discs are fun.

What would you estimate your collection to be worth, in total?
I would take a guess at £40,000 if I was giving each one an average price of £10

Do you think you will ever sell your collection?
Never say never, but at the moment I have no plans to. I do thin it down now and again though, and get rid of the ones that I never listen to, I am thinking of selling all my power violence stuff soon as I have no interest in that sort of thing these days, with the exception of Charles Bronson and Los Crudos who were both friends of mine, but none of it is gonna be classic, maybe Spazz but who knows.

Is your collection insured in any way?
It is covered on the house insurance but all I would get would be a set value per record of about £3 per 7” and £12 per LP, so if my whole collection went I would be lucky to get £25,000 which is a pretty big shortfall.

If your collection got destroyed in a fire or flood, do you think you would bother trying to get it all back (even if an insurance company gave you the required amount of money to get it back), or would such a disaster cause you to give up collecting? If you wouldn’t buy it all back, but you got the money from an insurance company, what would you do with the money?
Yeah to be honest I probably would give up, I don’t think I have the energy to start again, I would probably just settle for getting the essential stuff on CD, or maybe just put it all on an ipod. If I had the money I would either invest it into my shops or pay someone else to work in the shop and take myself and Jenny on a world trip.

 

      

Are you of the opinion that the internet in general has helped or hindered record collecting?
It has definitely helped people get what they want but for me most of the fun has gone, I don’t get the same kick as I used to get going into a record shop and hoping that I was gonna find a Youth Of Today ‘Can’t Close My Eyes’ in the one pound section. I remember going into a record shop and finding something I have been after for years and actually getting an adrenaline rush just from looking at it, like finding lost treasure.

What do you think of eBay & the effect it has had on record collecting?
Like I just mentioned it has removed the fun aspect. It’s turned the world into a convenience store, when you type in something you are looking for you expect it to come up with a few listings every time, and if it finds 0 matches for your criteria it actually comes as a surprise. I have probably found half of the records I have been looking for in the last twenty years on ebay in only a couple of years of searching, and now I’m at the point that I am looking for less and less so my enthusiasm has waned quite a lot.

What do you think about the fact that pretty much every kid who listens to hardcore collects records these days?
It’s fair enough, I don’t understand how anyone who listens to hardcore doesn’t get hooked and start frantically collecting records immediately, it’s more addictive than drugs.

What do you think of labels who make multiple “limited” versions of every record they put out? Do you think that this trend is helping to keep vinyl alive, or making a mockery of record collecting?
I think it’s pretty cheesy, and kind of fake, and just a marketing tool to some degree, but that’s because I’m older and jaded. It probably has a lot to do with what you mentioned in your previous question about the increase in people who collect records these days. It’s not just a case of putting out a record for the music contained within anymore, it’s about making your label desirable and cool so that everyone will take notice and want to buy everything you put out and not just the bands that are good or saying the right things. In some way it does mock record collecting but it definitely perpetuates it too.

Do you think vinyl will ever completely die? If so, how much time do you think it has left?
No I don’t think so, not in my lifetime, if it was gonna die it would have happened when the major labels tried to kill it off when they realised how much more money they could make selling cd’s. There may be a decrease in people buying records and cd’s at the moment because of mp3 players but I can see there being a backlash as it’s never gonna be the same as having a full release with a cover and insert etc.

Do you collect anything else other than records? If so, what & why?
I sort of collect other stuff, just in the fact that I am a hoarder by nature. I have a collection of Skateboard decks from the 80’s and some new ones too, I try to find boards that I used to skate in the 1980’s and the newer ones are just ones from my favourite skaters or ones with radical graphics. I have a small vintage Action Man collection of figures, uniforms and vehicles from WW2, they look cool displayed having a battle, Allies vs. Nazis with a Scorpion Tank as the centre piece. My latest thing is vintage guitar amplifiers from the 70s but it can get a bit expensive, and between Jenny and myself we have a pretty good collection of Games consoles, starting with an Atari 2600 ‘woody’, a Grandstand Astro Wars, a NES, a SNES, a Nintendo Game Boy, a Sega Game Gear, a Nintendo 64, a Sony PS1, a Sega Dreamcast, a Sony PS2, a Nintendo Game Cube, a Gameboy Advance and a Sony PS2 Slim, we are gonna buy a mark 1 XBox next, now that the price has dropped to under £100. I also have 8 televisions, 6 VCRs, about 200 Tees and Hoodys, etc. etc.. basically I haven’t thrown much of anything out since I was 16 years old.

Have you ever thought about will happen to your records when you die? Do you care?
I gave Jenny instructions to either ebay them or get Steve and Jimmy at Out Of Step Record Shop to sell them on commission for her, if I kill the pair of us in a car crash or we die in a house fire or a bizarre gardening accident, then it will be my parents problem to figure out. I feel guilty now for dumping that on them, I’ll have to come up with a contingency plan. I could always request that they are buried with me. Ha.

Do you think you will ever stop collecting records?
I may slow it down more, or stop buying altogether, but I think I will always have them, so I will always be a collector in that sense, but who can ever say for sure. I am always surprised when I hear of someone who was a renowned record collector suddenly selling their whole collection, Dickie Camm from Sunderland is a perfect example he is ebaying his records right now, shifting about fifty items a week. I guess the money comes in handy, but for me it’s not just the music that I’m holding onto it’s the memories of where I bought it or who I traded with to get it, what I traded, where I first heard it, when I saw the band, and that time in my life and the emotions it stirs within me every time i listen to it. I feel like I belong to my records as much as they belong to me. After reading that back just now, I think I need professional help.

 

     

Do you think that a zine about collecting records is a stupid idea? Howmany copies do you think I will be able to sell?
Everyone I mentioned it to thinks it’s a good idea, but I get that a lot, people just say “yeah, cool, yeah” which really means “I was half listening to what you said, but I don’t really care, so you can shut up now and go away you boring cunt”. If you include a “free” record like you mentioned to me before, I think it will work well, but even without the record, if you have a trading page where people lista top ten wants and ten trades, it could kick start a new trading network which would be well cool, I would buy it so you’ll sell at least one.

Have I asked too many questions? Did you enjoy answering them, or was it a pain in the ass?
Yes, Yes, and Yes, but it made me think hard about what I’m doing and why, and I have definitely learned some things about myself, although I still couldn’t put into words what those things are.

Finally. this is the end. Thank you for taking the time to answer all myquestions. Please use this space to say anything at all that you might want to say.
Thanks Marcus it was really interesting for me to do this, and now I’m just gonna finish by listing my wants, so here they are…. and if anyone has any of these that they wanna sell or trade e-mail me at lecky_wisdom@yahoo.co.uk… thanks!.

7”s
Agnostic Front “United Blood” 1st Press on AF Records with “skinhead” centre label
Antidote “Thou Shalt Not Kill” Original pressing
Bad Brains “Pay To Cum” 1st Press in Tan coloured picture sleeve
Chronic Sick EP on Mutha Records
D.O.A. “World War 3 / Watcha Gonna Do?” Original Pressing
Fix “Vengeance” on Touch and Go Rekords
Heart Attack “God Is Dead” Original pressing
Insults “Thrasher Go Home” Original pressing
Minor Threat 1st EP [Filler] Red sleeve, yellow centre labels
Misfits “Bullet” Original pressing
Misfits “Horror Business” Original pressing
Misfits “Night of the Living Dead” Original pressing
Misfits “3 Hits From Hell” Original pressing
Mourning Noise “Dawn Of The Dead” Original pressing
Negative Approach “Exorcist” Rejected test pressing with 11 songs
Necros 1st EP [Sex Drive] on Touch and Go Rekords, with or without sleeve
Offenders “Lost Causes” Original pressing
S.O.A. “No Policy” 1st Press [Green vinyl] on Dischord Records
SSD “Jolly Old St. Nick” Promo on Taang Records
V/A “Big City Aint Too Pretty” NY sampler
Young and Useless “Real Men Don’t Floss” Rat Cage Records
 

12”s & LP’s
Accused “Martha Splatterhead” EP
B.G.K. “Nothing Can Go Wrogn” on Vogelspin Records
Chronic Sick “Cutest Band In Hardcore” EP
Ill Repute “What Happens Next?” [not Valu Pak version]
Raw Power “You Are The Victim” Original pressing
Shattered Faith EP on Poshboy Records
Unseen Force “In Search Of The Truth”
V/A “The Future Looks Bright” Promo on Poshboy/SST
GOOD QUALITY PHOTOCOPIES [I can copy stuff you need from my collection in exchange]
Skatepark Sleeve for Necros “IQ32” EP
Insert for Abused “Loud and Clear” EP
Sleeve for Toxic Reasons “War Hero” EP
Sleeve for Funeral “Waiting for the Bomb Blast” EP

I am also frequently getting asked for the first Voorhees EP and the split with Stalngrad so if anyone is selling them let me know and I’ll give you a good price for them.