DANIEL JOHNSTON The Story Of An Artist 6xLP Box/STILL SEALED /OUT OF PRINT
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DANIEL JOHNSTON 'The Story Of An Artist' 6xLP Box (Spain, Munster Records, Catalogue #MR 298) Brand new/unplayed copy of instantly SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT year 2010 Munster Records label limited 6xLP boxset edition (a limited edition of only 1000 copies) collecting early cassette releases of Daniel Johnston. Heavy package boxset (almost FIVE POUNDS!)
(NOTE: INSTANTLY SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT/LIMITED VINYL EDITION OF 1000 COPIES ONLY!)
6LP box set version limited to 1,000 copies. Includes individual printed inner sleeves, a two-sided A2 poster and a 64-page booklet with Daniel's artwork from those years and extensive notes by music journalist Everett True.
"When I first met Daniel in 1985, he was already quite well known. He had been giving away homemade cassettes for months and his live performances were attracting enthusiastic crowds. He had even been on MTV. The cassettes were his business cards and he used them well, with Hi, How Are You, Yip/Jump Music, Retired Boxer, Respect and Continued Story finding their way into the hands of seemingly every band in town. As the attention increased, so did the need to keep making and handing out cassettes. It reached a point where much of his paycheck from McDonald's would be spent on blank tapes, so I began talking to him about ways to at least break even. By the time Daniel left Austin a year later, things had changed considerably. I was finding national distribution for the tapes, but he wasn't well, and didn't wish to continue in the music business. He gave me a couple of tapes I hadn't heard before throwing most of his remaining possessions into a dumpster. By the time I found out about the dumpster incident and frantically dug through it, trying to salvage any tapes that I could find, it was too late. What was lost in that dumpster is something we'll never know. The two unreleased tapes he had given me were More Songs Of Pain and Don't Be Scared (ironically misspelled Don't Be Scarred). Both were unlike anything I had previously heard. Recorded in the semi-privacy of his parents' basement in the early 1980s, before he'd moved to Texas, the sound was slightly better than the tapes I was already distributing, and the material so strong that I knew he deserved a place among the all-time great songwriters. Both were and are fully realized masterpieces to my ears ... I was able to borrow a tape he had given Glass Eye's Kathy McCarty titled The Joker -- it turned out to be one of several versions of the Songs Of Pain tape that he had given out to his friends in West Virginia before moving to Austin. I knew it had to be the first of the 'new' releases, so I began distributing Songs Of Pain in 1987. A few months later, I borrowed another tape he had given to one of his friends. This led to the release of The What Of Whom. In 1988, I released More Songs Of Pain and in 1989 Don't Be Scared. In 1990, Daniel found some tapes under his bed (!) called The Lost Recordings, and these were released in 1991. Most of Daniel's early recordings were done on a $59 Sanyo jam box using the cheapest tape he could find. The term 'lo-fi' was still a few years away and I never gave the low fidelity of these recordings a second thought. It was about the music and the story of an artist. Songs Of Pain, More Songs Of Pain, The What Of Whom, Don't Be Scared and The Lost Recordings tell the story of that artist. They may have been 'just' cassettes, but Daniel owned his own publishing and these releases led to more songs being published, and ultimately more songs being covered by other bands. I'm very grateful that Munster Records has chosen to package the recordings from Daniel's West Virginia years as a box set. I hope you enjoy it." --Jeff Tartakov, Stress Records
Tracks on this Six LP Boxset are as follows:
Songs Of Pain A1 Grievances A2 A Little Story A3 Joy Without Pleasure A4 Never Relaxed A5 Brainwash A6 Pothead A7 Wicked World A8 Lazy A9 I Save Cigarette Butts B1 Like A Monkey In A Zoo B2 Wicked Will B3 An Idiot's End B4 Wild West Virginia B5 Since I Lost My Tooth B6 Urge B7 Living Life B8 Tuna Ketchup B9 Premarital Sex B10 Don't Act Nice B11 Hate Song Don't Be Scared C1 Going Down C2 Lost Without A Dame C3 Harley Man C4 Evening Stars C5 Something More C6 Cold Hard World C7 I Had A Dream C8 The Story Of An Artist C9 My Yoke Is Heavy D1 Stars On Parade D2 And You Love It D3 I Had Lost My Mind D4 The Sun Shines Down On Me D5 Loner D6 I Don't Want To Be Scared D7 Lullaby D8 I Was Alone D9 Mother Mom Said The What Of Whom E1 Man Obsessed E2 Peek-a-boo E3 Never Before/Never Again E4 The Goldfish & The Frog E5 Scuttle-butt E6 Heart, Mind & Soul E7 Blue Clouds E8 Surely You Don't Work All Night E9 I Can't Think Anymore F1 Excuse Me F2 Polka Dot Rag F3 Why/Without You F4 An Incoherent Speech F5 Wicked World F6 To Go Home F7 Scrambled Eggs F8 Peace & Tranquility F9 When You're Pretty More Songs Of Pain G1 Phantom Of My Own Opera G2 Man At War G3 Only Missing You G4 More Dead Than Alive G5 I Will G6 Poptunes G7 You Put My Love Out The Door G8 You're Gonna Make It Joe G9 Theme For Grievances H1 Never Get To Heaven H2 Follow That Dream H3 Pow H4 For The Love Of Pete H5 Blue Cloud H6 Grievances Revisited H7 True Grief H8 My Baby Cares For The Dead H9 Mabel's Grievances The Lost Recordings I I1 Take A Little Walk I2 Before It's Too Late I3 Oh What A Wonderful Feeling I4 I'd Like To Say Goodbye I5 That's Silly I6 There Ain't Much You Can Do I7 I'm A Song I8 You Should Have Been My Wife I9 You Ruined It For Yourself I10 Once Upon A Dream I11 I Love You I12 Scattered Like Birds I13 More About Wicked Will I14 Good Luck I15 Got To Go On J1 It's Real J2 If You Were Here Today J3 Girlfriend J4 Void (Space For The Memories) J5 Sad And Lonely J6 I'm Nervous J7 Cosmic Kid J8 Never Die J9 Kiss Me Again J10 I Wish I Could Call You J11 Love Is Weird J12 Burn Baby Burn J13 No Fun J14 Art Peace J15 Instrumental The Lost Recordings II K1 All Around The World K2 You're Not Laura (After You're Gone) K3 I'm Gonna Buy Me A Car K4 Out West K5 The Undertaker's Assistant K6 Dream's Come True K7 Mean To Me K8 Fly Me To The Moon K9 Love Defined K10 Love K11 How I Love That Organ Music K12 We Could Be Together Again K13 Happy Talk K14 The Miracle Of Love L1 Who Killed The Monkey L2 The Wedding L3 Unfinished Symphony L4 Blue Cloud L5 I Never Meant To Be Spooky L6 Dream Lover L7 What's A Matter With Me L8 If I Kissed You Once L9 I Give Up L10 Lonely Orphan On The Run L11 The Goat Show L12 You've Got A Funny Sense Of Humor L13 Last Song For YouShipping in US is $8.80./CANADA, MEXICO, OVERSEAS AIRMAIL inquire first for rates. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.)
6xLP record box set shipped in professional, superior record box protecting corrugated cardboard record box set-style mailer box with filler pads and Styrofoam peanuts. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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