INSTED 'BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP' LP TEST PRESSING NOS PUNK HARDCORE STRAIGHT EDGE

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Super-rare factory TEST PRESSING of the classic straight edge record BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP by latter-days hardcore greats INSTED!

Wishingwell Records,1988, catalog # GRI 6019-1. This is a New-Old Stock copy, never sold, from a punk record store that went out of business in the early 90s. Vinyl is a little dusty but otherwise PERFECT - I might have test played it for the second time in its history, just to be sure what was in the sleeve was correct.

Blank 'test pressing' label, plain white cardboard sleeve. Typed insert stating artist, title, catalog # and tracklist. Google search for address on label says 'space for rent.' Oh - and did I mention RARE??!!

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FULL DISCLOSURE TIME! A friend came by to look at the record last night and informed me that the sleeve smells like cigarette smoke. I don't smoke and never have, my home is smoke-free, BUT my nose is apparently burned out from too many years around dusty old books and such to notice. Whatever odor is there must have been picked up over the years when the record was in storage, before I acquired it. The claim is that the odor isn't very strong, and the sleeve is a plain cardboard affair anyway - easily replaced - BUT I didn't want anyone to get all ruffled up over it. So, now you know.