So I thought I'd talk about my craziest record store find. I'll take pictures of the record and edit it into this post later...
Band: Cheesecake
Record: Coq Fighter, 7" on Maroon vinyl
Where: Freakbeat Records
Why: Personalized note/sticker/flyer
How much: $6-8$
Never heard of this band before seeing this record, but I gathered from the record label that they were from Boston. They are Riot Grrrl, formed sometime around the early 1990s which would make them one of the first Riot Grrrl bands and have remained extremely obscure. They kind of sound like Mika Miko. Anyway, I happened across this while digging through the 7 inch bin at Freakbeat, which is just a box full of them in random order so it requires you (for better or worse depending on what you find) to just look through the entire thing. So this record catches my attention and I listen to it (because they let you listen to records that are already open, i.e. the used records) and I liked it. Upon closer inspection, I found a handwritten note in the jacket on the back of a concert flier, from the drummer of the band...To Phranc! At the time, I didn't know who Phranc was, but I was soon to find out when I bought "Captain My Captain" from Team Dresch and doing a little google search when I got home.
Also included was a sticker, I asked about it and the guy working there said that it actually did belong to Phranc and that she dropped if off fairly recently, I also picked up a Tribe 8 record there that I also assumed to have belonged to Phranc.
I don't know how many copies of the maroon colored vinyl of this there are, I can hardly find any info on Cheesecake itself let alone their releases, but its really good.
Some of the members of Cheesecake later went on to form this band.
[Edit, i.e. that thing I said I was going to do.]
[Edit, i.e. that thing I said I was going to do.]
Front cover.
The whole deal.
The sticker.
The flyer.
The note on the back of the flyer.
Lyrics sheet.
The back cover.
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