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It never fails to amaze me the love out there for Mental, especially in the record collecting world.
No doubt they kicked ass, but also being a Bridge Nine band doesn't hurt either as most of the label's special presses and limited colors still go for some big bucks.
Dollar value wise, I guess this would be considered my prized Mental record. Get An Oxygen Tank 7" record release. The last ebay auction I saw for this ended at around $160. Wow. That is some big bucks for a 7" you can still find for $5.
For the record release, there were a total of 100 pressed on green vinyl with stamped labels.
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I figure the big selling feature is the Mental Crew cover, a takeoff on the old Agnostic Front boots design, except with Nikes. Pretty clever actually.
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The back fold of the cover shows the record release show date.
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This is a really good record. "Growing Pains" is a hum-dinger of a tune. Personally, I think they hit their peak near the end with Planet Mental. That album kills.
I really NEED this pressing, but there was no way that I was going to hang with the recent ebay auction that B9 had up.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky to have lived on the east coast during the Mental craziness, so i was at alot of the record release shows and got most of the limited vinyl. But i sold most of them for a retarded sum of money about 4 years ago, right after they broke up and everyone was clamoring to get them. Kinda wish i still had them. But i was touring alot and had no home, so i needed the money.
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