THE QUEERS,Grow Up VINYL, Shakin Street, Look Out, RARE
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You are bidding on a used copy of the 1990 Queers, Grow Up record on the UK Shakin Street Records # 10. This is PRE Queers on Lookout records and there is only thought to be 1000 of these records in existance. The record your bidding on is the one with the black and white jacket. All the info on the back of the sleeve, no insert. The vinyl is black, with Yellow middle, red writing.
Here's the story of the record (taken from http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/queers.html )
From 1984 to 1987, The Queers survived dozens of personnel changes. The only remaining original member, Joe King (guitarist and vocalist), began recording what would be the Grow Up album, a pop-punk collection of love songs, hate songs, and instrumentals. It took two years to complete. As their luck would have it, a British alternative label, Shakin' Street, offered The Queers a deal they could not refuse. Shortly after the ink dried, however, the contractual commitments of up-front cash, quantities of finished product, and a cut of the profits failed to materialize. The label did send four copies of the finished Grow Up album, but the band gave them away. The Queers never did find out how many records were pressed before Shakin' Street closed its doors.
The Grow Up story does not end there, however. With no copies of Grow Up forthcoming from the UK, the Queers decided to do their own pressing of the album (and inexplicably list the defunct Shakin' Street as the label). The pressing plant ends up destroying all but 160 copies of the record after The Queers fail to pay their pressing bill. There's no money for a glossy record jacket, so The Queers released the surviving copies of Grow Up with just a xeroxed punk-rock-type-of-insert.
The record your bidding on is the one with the black and white jacket. All the info on the back of the sleeve, no insert. The vinyl is black, with Yellow middle, red writing.
CONDITION - I picked this record up in a shop in Liverpool a few years ago. Since then, i have only played it once. I beleive it skips briefly in one place (being honest). The sleeve is in generally good condition. There are two sticker marks, the corners around the sleeve are slightly bent and there are cracks around the edge. The vinyl looks to be in okay condition, with no major scratch marks (nothing that effects the playing anyway, except for the brief skipping i mentioned earlier. Considering this record is 16 years old, it looks in an okay shape. If you closer pictures of the record, contact me at xxxlauraxxx_cgc@hotmail.com and ill get this sorted out for you asap.
I accept Paypal, UK personal cheques and i will ship Worldwide. Send me your country and i'll send you the postage calculation
This is a really good opportunity to own a piece of The Queers history and i can guarentee that this record will inflate with value.
Happy bidding .XXX.
