JAWBREAKER Unfun LP 1st PRESSING Jets To Brazil kbd

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JAWBREAKER
" Unfun "
1990 LIMITED EDITION First Pressing BLACK VINYL LP on Shredder, now long out-of-print w/ gatefold insert featuring lyrics/photos.   SHREDDER RECORDS  SH-07  A1        Want   3:22   
A2     Seethruskin  2:52  
A3     Fine Day  4:07  
A4     Incomplete  2:41  
A5     Imaginary War  4:01  
A6     Busy  4:24  
B1     Softcore  3:27  
B2     Driven  3:31  
B3     Wound  2:52  
B4     Down  3:32  
B5     Gutless  2:54  
B6     Drone  3:49          vinyl EX          cover EX      According to WIKIPEDIA: Label:Shredder Records
Catalog#: SR-07 Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Country:US
Released:1990
Genre:Rock
Style:Hardcore, Punk, Emo, Alternative Indie Notes: First pressing: On the front cover, "Jawbreaker" is written in green and "Unfun" is written in orange. The cover is printed on rough paper material. Clear, blue and black vinyl.
Runout etchings:
side a: "SH-7-A First I seen him, then he wasn't there no more"
side b: "SH-7-B I was hauling ass"
Includes lyric sheet. Jawbreaker was an American punk band from San Francisco, California, from 1988 to 1996. The band also had roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler attended Crossroads High School together, and New York City, where Schwarzenbach and Pfahler met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988. The band put its DIY ethos into practice by managing themselves. Jawbreaker released four full-length studio albums between 1990 and 1995 as well as a number of EPs, 7 inches and splits. Even though they were signed to a major record label for their final album Dear You, Jawbreaker failed to achieve much commercial success during their years of recording and performing. The band split up in 1996 and members of Jawbreaker went on to form or feature in several bands since then. In January 2008, Pfahler announced that the band had recently reunited for an upcoming documentary. After the success of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, Jawbreaker signed with Geffen Records and worked with producer Rob Cavallo, who had received acclaim producing Green Day's breakthrough album Dookie. Dear You was a stark departure from the harder edge of their earlier recordings. Blake's singing and the guitar sound were cleaner. Cavallo gave the album a "radio-friendly" polish their previous albums lacked. The band had mixed feelings about this new sound and major label atmosphere. Adam and Blake talked extensively about the benefits of self-managing their band and how major labels spelled financial death for many bands. Adam and Blake's views are epitomized in their comments in Maximum Rock and Roll's major labels issue. Nevertheless, Blake has stated that this album kept the band alive, as they were on the verge of breaking up after 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Despite a vigorous marketing push by Geffen, album sales for Dear You were anemic in the wake of a post-Green Day market and failed to come close to those of their previous albums. However, the album was a critical success, bringing Jawbreaker's artistic maturity to a new audience. In 2004, the members of the group reacquired the rights to Dear You and successfully put the long out-of-print album back into circulation with additional tracks, including a more polished version of "Boxcar", an interactive copy of their only music video ("Fireman"), and updated liner notes that include a picture of Kurt Cobain wearing a Jawbreaker t-shirt. Their hit "Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault" was included on EA Sports video game NCAA Football 06 After Dear You was released in September 1995, the band soldiered on for another year before calling it quits. One of their last tours found them opening for the Foo Fighters. A San Francisco stop on this tour is featured on their post-breakup release; Live 4/30/96. The LP version of the live album was a mail-order only offer limited to one hundred copies from Allied Records. Singer Blake Schwarzenbach went on to form the New York City-based band Jets to Brazil, which has since broken up. Between bands, he found work as a freelance writer, even writing a few game reviews for GameSpot. He is now an adjunct English professor at Hunter College in New York City. After a brief stint with The Thorns of Life, he is currently playing with forgetters. Drummer Adam Pfahler lives in San Francisco and currently runs Lost Weekend Video and Blackball Records, which primarily keeps the Jawbreaker catalog in print. He has played drums in Bay Area pop punk band J Church and played in Whysall Lane with Richard Baluyut, the lead singer for Versus. Bassist Chris Bauermeister briefly played with Horace Pinker while he was working on a doctorate degree in History at Purdue. He moved to Olympia, Washington, where he played bass in the band Shorebirds with singer/guitarist Matt Cannino from the band Latterman. As of 2009, Bauermeister is in a new band with Cannino: Mutoid Men.  
We're very careful handling our goods. This was eased out of its sleeve, and wasn't touched on its surface OR laid down on any surface.  In this photograph, like in every photograph, the vinyl is being held carefully, still partially in its cover, but photographed so that you can view the vinyl out of its sleeve. Unlike other sellers, we NEVER lay your record down!   There is a small 1/2" tear on the bottom right hand corner of the LP.  It's not instantly obvious, as it is a small tear, but it seals together and doesn't look like a rip.  Besides that, the cover is EX+ at least. The vinyl itself has some marks, but nothing major.  It's EX. The foldout insert has never been hung and isn't damaged.


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This is reserved for records that are a hair's width better than EX+, or just a fraction below NM (or brand-new). Another grading call, but generally it's a piece that is SO close to perfect that you could easily make an argument for it though honesty makes you feel the need to point out something keeping it out of the "nearly perfect" category.

EXCELLENT PLUS:
A judgment call.  This one is sometimes used interchangeably with NM-, but not with all sellers.  This category is for records that are ALMOST new-looking enough to pass for unowned/unused, but might have one or maybe two very minor problems that bother you just enough to not allow it to be there.  Mayhap a record that someone has purchased and never played, but when they removed the price sticker it left a 1/8 inch bare spot on the cover.  So basically, brand-new-looking, but has one light imperfection.

EXCELLENT:
An excellent record will be somewhere in that area between 1) a record that you could put in a plastic bag and pass off as brand new & 2) the VG+ record, which has just enough aesthetic spots to keep it out of the excellent category.  The vinyl can have some visible scuffs, or very minor lines or surface scratches, but should NOT have any lines/scratches that you can feel if you run your fingernail softly over its surface.  In other words, an Excellent record might have places that appear to be scratches, but they should not sound like scratches when you play them on a stereo system.  They key to this category is SOUND.  It can look slightly less than perfect but it has to sound clean. An excellent cover/sleeve can have very minor lines or creases caused by (not all-the-way folded) slight bending/folding of a corner.  There may be some very light wear caused by fingers touching the top of the cover as they flip by, and there might be the very lightest hint of oncoming ring wear, but there should not actually be real ring wear, and there can't be anything even close to a seam split, complete fold, rip or tear.  In other words, not quite perfect, but if not for an imperfection or two it might come close.

VERY GOOD PLUS:
Most collectors, especially those who want to play their records, will be happy with a VG+ record,

VG+ records may show some slight signs of wear, including light scuffs or very light scratches that do not affect the listening experience. Slight warps that don’t affect the sound are OK. Minor signs of handling are OK, too, such as telltale marks around the center hole, so long as repeated playing has not misshapen the hole. (This goes for your body as well. See a physician if your center hole is misshapen or has telltale marks.) There may be some very light ring wear or discoloration, but it should be barely noticeable.

VG+ Covers should have only minor wear. A VG+ cover might have some very minor seam wear or a split (less than one inch long) at the bottom, the most vulnerable location.

VERY GOOD:
Many of the imperfections found on a VG+ record are more obvious on a VG record. That said, VG records — which usually sell for no more than 25 percent of a an NM record — are among the biggest bargains in record collecting, because moost of the “big money” goes for more perfect copies. For many listeners, a VG record or sleeve will be worth the money. For the average Joe, VG is a normal listening copy. The high-end collector's satisfaction level generally bottoms out around here.

VG records have more obvious flaws than their counterparts in better shape. They lack most of the original gloss found on factory-fresh records. Groove wear is evident on sight, as are light scratches deep enough to feel with a fingernail.

When played, a VG record has surface noise, and some scratches may be audible, especially in soft passages and during a song’s intro and ending. But the noise won’t overpower the music otherwise. Minor writing, tape or a sticker can detract from the label. Many collectors who have jukeboxes will use VG records in them and not think twice. They remain a fine listening experience, just not the same as if it were in better shape.

VG covers will have many signs of human handling. Ring wear in the middle or along the edges of the cover, where the edge of a record would reside, is obvious; it may appear on all three sides, though it won’t be obvious upon looking. Someone might have written on it or stamped a price tag on it, too.

GOOD/VERY GOOD MINUS:
Good does not mean bad! The record still plays through without skipping, so it can serve as filler until something better comes along. But it has significant surface noise and groove wear. The label is worn and exhibits significant ring wear, heavy writing or obvious damage caused by trying to remove tape or stickers and failing miserably.
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