From PackageThf@aol.comSat Feb 10 02:51:27 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 02:53:04 -0500 From: PackageThf@aol.com Subject: THE MERGE 1996 CATALOG THE MERGE CATALOG, courtesy the Superchunk Internationale (e)Mailing List +UNITED STATES, CANADA, MEXICO - add $1.50 for postage (1-3 items) or $3.00 for postage (for more than 3 items) +add $2 per item for postage outside of North America +Please list alternate choices or specify if you would like a refund PRICES>> CD - $10, LP/CS - $8, 7" - $3, cd5 - $5 > unless listed otherwise MRG013: Pure - Ballard (3-song EP: "senseless" & "slab" b/w "daddy") - 7" MRG020: Superchunk - Tossing Seeds (1989-91) - cd, lp, cs MRG022: Polvo - Cor-crane Secret - cd, lp, cs MRG023: Drive Like Jehu - "Hand Over Fist" b/w "Bullet Train to Vegas" - 7" MRG024: Fuckers - "Quick Cash" b/w "Coming Home (crashing the crackhouse)" - 7" MRG025: Bricks - The Getting Wet Part (w/ "History of Lies" and "Smoking Hooch With The Flume Dude") - 7" MRG027: Superchunk - Mower (non-lp version; plus "on the mouth"; cd also includes live version of "fishing") - 7", cd5 MRG028: Erectus Monotone - "Glider" b/w "Soul Taker" - 7" MRG030: Bricks - A Microphone and a Box Of Dirt - cd, cs MRG031: Angels of Epistemology - Fruit - cd, cs MRG033: Alf Danielson - "Mary Had A Steamboat" b/w "Glover" - 7" MRG034: Superchunk - "Question Is How Fast" (+ "100,000 Fireflies," "Forged It") - cd5 MRG036: Renderers - "A Million Lights" b/w "Primitive Country" - 7" MRG037: Pipe - "Ashtray" b/w "Warsaw" - $3 MRG038: Polvo - "Tilebreaker" b/w "The Chameleon," "Tiara Fetish" - 7" MRG039: The 6ths - "Heaven In A Black Leather Jacket" b/w "Rot In The Sun" - $3 MRG040: Polvo -Today's Active Lifestyles - cd, lp MRG042: Meanies - "Rhyming Logic" b/w "Operator," "Darkside of my Mind" - 7" MRG043: 3D's - "Beautiful Things" b/w "Summer Stone" (non-lp versions) - 7" MRG044: Erectus Monotone - Close Up - CD $8, LP/CS - $8 MRG045: Coral - "Boxtruck" b/w "Half The Time" - 7" MRG047: Superchunk - "Ribbon" b/w "Who Needs Light" - 7" MRG048: Lambchop - "Nine" b/w "Moody Fucker" - 7" MRG051: Portastatic - I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle - cd, lp, cs MRG052: Breadwinner - Burner (2 out-of-print singles + 3 new songs) - CD $8, CS $6 MRG052.5: Breadwinner - Supplementary Cig (the 3 new songs from MRG052) - 7" MRG054: Pipe - "Human Gutterball" b/w "Figure 8" - 7" MRG055: Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip - CD, CS MRG056: Polvo - Celebrate The New Dark Age - CD $8, CS $6 MRG057: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Roasted Right - 7" MRG058: The Bats - "Live at WFMU" (radio broadcast) - 7" MRG059: Superchunk - The First Part (+ "Connecticut"; cd also includes "Foolish") - 7", cd5 MRG060: Superchunk - Foolish - CD, CS MRG061: Velocity Girl - "Your Silent Face" b/w "You're So Good To Me" - 7" MRG063: Odes - "Meltaway" b/w "Honey Gets Hard" - 7" MRG064: 3D's - "Hey Seuss" b/w "River Burial" - 7" MRG065: 3D's - The Venus Trail - CD, CS MRG066: Lambchop - "Soaky In The Pooper" b/w "Two Kittens Don't Make A Puppy" - 7" MRG067: ROWS OF TEETH (Merge 5th Anniversary Comp.; includes non-lp Portastatic and Superchunk) - CD, CS MRG068: Cornershop - "Born Disco; Died Heavy Metal" - 7" MRG069: Superchunk - "Driveway To Driveway" (PLUS acoustic versions of Seed Toss, Driveway to Driveway, and Sick To Move) - 7",cd5 MRG070: Lambchop - I Hope You're Sitting Down (aka Jack's Tulip) - CD, CS MRG071: Butterglory - Crumble - cd, lp, cs MRG072: The Mad Scene - "Greatest Time" b/w "Sealight," "Balloon" - 7" MRG073: Magnetic Fields - "All The Umbrellas In London" b/w "Rats In The Garbage of the Western World" - 7" MRG074: Cornershop - Hold On It Hurts(includes Lock, Stock, & Doublebarrel ep) - cd, cs MRG075: Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus & Distant Plastic Trees (1st 2 albums on 1 cd) - CD, CS MRG076: East River Pipe - "Bring On The Loser" b/w "Fan The Flame," "Sleeping With Tallboy" - 7" MRG077: The Mad Scene - Sealight - CD MRG078: Spent - Songs of Drinking and Rebellion - cd, lp, cs MRG079: The Cakekitchen - Stompin' Through The Boneyard - cd, cs MRG080: Portastatic - Scrapbook (ep) - CD $8, double 7" $6 MRG081: East River Pipe - Poor Fricky - cd, lp MRG082: Guv'nor - Knight Moves (ep) - cd5, double 7" $6 MRG083: Bio Ritmo - "Piraguero" b/w "Asia Minor" - 7" MRG084: Butterglory - Wait For Me - double 7" $6 MRG085: Superchunk - Incidental Music 1991-1995 - cd, cs, double LP $10 MRG086: Portastatic - Slow Note From A Sinking Ship (cd and lp have different song orders with one extra song each) - cd, lp MRG087: Butterglory - Downed - cd MRG088: Verbena - "I Say So" b/w "Silver Queen" - 7" MRG089: Superchunk - "Hyper Enough" (+ "never too young to smoke"; cd also includes "Detroit Has A Skyline (acoustic)") - cd5, 7" MRG090: Superchunk - Here's Where The Strings Come In - cd, lp, cs MRG091: Magnetic Fields - Get Lost - cd MRG092: Wedding Present - "sucker" b/w "waiting on the guns" - 7" MRG093: Karl Hendricks Trio - "What Everyone Else Calls Fun" b/w "A Boy Who Plays With Dolls" - 7" MRG094: Karl Hendricks Trio - Some Girls Like Cigarettes - cd MRG095: Polvo - This Eclipse (ep) - CD $8 MRG096: Verbena - "Everyday Shoes" b/w "Ever Rent A Heart," "Pony Express" - 7" >>>Mrg023, 025, 037 are available in limited quantities >>>Keep an eye out in early `96 for new albums from Butterglory and Lambchop and ep's by Verbena, Odes, and The Cakekitchen. Also, watch for the debut lp from Neutral Milk Hotel in March and Merge's mysterious 100th release. 100% Cotton T-Shirts ------------------------------- Merge Records: logo on white shirt - L or XL - $8 Merge It Up: "5" design on front, list of bands involved in "merge it up" on back, white shirt - XL - $10 Superchunk - spaceman design (Packagethf's fave Chunk shirt, incidentally) on black shirt - M, L, XL - $12 Superchunk - "freed seed" design on white shirt - L, XL - $12 Superchunk - "no pocky for kitty" design on white shirt - L, XL - $12 Polvo - "celebrate the new dark age" design on white shirt - XL - $12 Portastatic - 2-color design on white shirt - XL - $12 Butterglory - crown design on olive shirt - $12 Other People's Stuff ----------------------------- The 6th's - Wasp's Nest (7" box set with extra song not on the cd; London) - $9 Cornershop - In The Days Of Ford Cortina (7", wiiija) WIJ19V - $4 East River Pipe - "Ah Dictaphone" + 1 (hellgate) HG9401 - $3 - Shining Hours In A Can (ajax) AJAX41 - $11 Finger - "Wedding Boots" b/w "Do It Feel?" (third sister) SIS001 - $3 Karl Hendricks Trio - A Gesture Of Kindness (vinyl; fiasco) FSCO1009 - $8 Labradford - A Stable Reference (kranky) KRANK006 - $10 - Prazision (kranky) KRANK001 - $10 Lampchop / CYOD (split 7", bloodsucker) - $4 Lambchop - "Your Life As A Sequel" b/w "Smuckers" (mute) MUTE7003 - $3 - Big Tussie - $4 - "My Cliche" b/w "Loretta Lung" (sunday driver) SD02 - $3 - I Hope You're Sitting Down (import double lp of Mrg070; city slang) LC6853 - $10 Loose Confederation of Saturday City-States (slow river) SRR25075 - $3 Magnetic Fields - Holiday (feels good all over) FGAO26 - $11 - "100,000 Fireflies" b/w "Old Orchard Beach" (harriet) H007 - $3 - "Long Vermont Roads" +2 (harriet) H017 - $3 Manchild - Searching For Everywhere (super 8) S8001 - $7 Pipe - 6 Days To Bellus (jesus christ) JC003 - $10 - "You're Soaking In It" b/w "Trouble" (amish) AMI001 - $3 Pipe / Rubbermaid - (split 7"; amish) AMI004 - $3 Polvo - cd reissue of the Kitchen Puff double 7" (jesus christ) JC001 - $10 Portastatic - "Scrapbook x's" +2 non-lp tracks (eighteen wheeler) EWR013 - $3 - (7", the 1st Portastatic release; eighteen wheeler) EWR002 - $3 Spent - "Sinking" b/w "West (spinart) SPART29 - $4 Spent / Lambchop - (split 5"; i-sore) IS006 - $4 Superchunk / Tsunami - (split 7"; Chunk does "Kicked In (acoustic)"; honey bear) HB006 - $4 Superchunk - TAKE THE TUBE (concert video from the `93 european tour) K7019 - $17 Superchunk - On Paper It Made Perfect Sense (australian tour ep; fellaheen) J101 - $8 >SPEED KILLS (magazine; includes Superchunk's one-sided 7" w/"Home At Dawn") SK#6 - $4 >FREEDOM OF CHOICE (new wave tribute comp.; includes Superchunk doing Devo's "Girl U Want"; caroline) CAROL1715 - LP $8, CD $13 >Cognitive Mapping Vol. 2 (74 minute comp. of Chapel Hill artists) - CD $10 > Ow, Quit It, Vol. 2 (double 7", includes Portastatic; Volvolo) LO705 - $6 > Self-Mutilation (cd comp. of 7" series; hippy knight) CREEP015 - $12 > The Long Secret (cd comp, includes Magnetic Fields; Harriet) SPY3 - $10 > Working Holiday (cd comp of the 7" series; includes Superchunk; simple machines) SMR26 - $10 MATADOR ---------------- OLE035 - Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty - CD $12, CS $8 OLE049 - Superchunk - On The Mouth - CD $12, CS $8 OLE076 - Portastatic - Naked Pilseners (+2) - 7" $3, CD $5 SMELLS LIKE RECORDS -------------------------------------- SLR001 - Sentridoh - "Losercore" b/w "Really Insane" - $4 SLR003 - Double Dynamite - Hero Takes A Fall 7" - $4 SLR008 - Sentridoh - Winning Losers - $7 SLR009 - Sammy - (debut CD) - $10 SLR010 - Two Dollar Guitar - Let Me Bring You Down - $10 SLR011 - Blonde Redhead - (self-titled cd) - $10 SLR013 - Sammy - Kings Of The Inland Empire (cd ep) - $7 SLR014 - Blonde Redhead - "10ft. High" b/w "Valentine" - $4 SLR015 - Overpass - Manhattan (beach) - $10 SLR016 - Dump - International Airport (6 song 10") - $7 SLR018 - Blonde Redhead - La Mia Vita Violenta - $10 Tenderizer --------------- TZR004 - Bio Ritomo - "Que Venga Toda La Gente" b/w "Le Canto" - $3 TZR005 - Dish - "And Then" b/w "Moving Day" - $3 TZR006 - Hose Got Cable - (6 song double 7") - $6 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pleeeze make out all checks to MERGE RECORDS Mail to: Merge Records, P.O. Box 1235, Chapel Hill, Nc 27514 >>>> please do not email orders to me, I am not Merge Records' rep. However, if you could make note on your order that you received the catalog from this mailing list, it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions about the merchandice, either write to Merge, or to me - I'll see what I can do. Happy ordering! >>>> PackageThf's footnotes: since you probably noticed that some Merge releases are no longer available for ordering and you're probably wondering what they were. Well, you can't order them from Merge, but they are: MRG002: Wwax - Live/Left (cs)** MRG003: Metal Pitcher - A Careful Workman Is The Best Safety Device 7"** MRG004: Superchunk - "What Do I," "My Noise," "Train From Kansas City"* MRG006: Angels Of Epistemology - (self-titled 7")** MRG007: Superchunk - "Slack Motherfucker" b/w "Night Creatures"* MRG008: Wwax - Like It Or Not 7"** MRG014: Superchunk - "Fishing" b/w "Cool"* MRG015: Coral - (self-titled 7")** MRG016: Erectus Monotone - Cathode Gumshoe 7"** MRG018: Superchunk - The Freed Seed ep* MRG029: Butterglory - (self-titled 7")** MRG049: Rocket From The Crypt - (self-titled 7")** MRG053: Archers Of Loaf - The Results After The Loaf's Revenge 7"** * - available on Tossing Seeds, MRG020 ** - tracks from this release can be found on the Rows Of Teeth comp., MRG067 ------------------------------- ++with thanks to Ultra21@aol.com, biler@PO-Box.McGill.CA, todd@icu.com, FreedMan88@aol.com, Portastatc@aol.com, saranac@tribeca.ios.com, LadyDi888@aol.com, bigeye@jax.gulfnet.com, & gquan@unixg.ubc.ca for info. submissions - here's an update on the out-of-print merge releases: MRG002: Wwax - Live/Left (cs)** MRG003: Metal Pitcher - A Careful Workman Is The Best Safety Device 7"** MRG004: Superchunk - "What Do I," "My Noise," "Train From Kansas City"* MRG005: Bricks "Girl with the carrot skin" + 2 7" MRG006: Angels Of Epistemology - (self-titled 7")** MRG007: Superchunk - "Slack Motherfucker" b/w "Night Creatures"* MRG008: Wwax - Like It Or Not 7"** MRG009: Erectus Monotone-Vertigo ep 7" MRG010: Breadwinner-3 song ep 7" MRG012: Finger-Everywhere 7" MRG014: Superchunk - "Fishing" b/w "Cool"* MRG015: Coral - (self-titled 7")** MRG016: Erectus Monotone - Cathode Gumshoe 7"** MRG017: Breadwinner-?+2 7" MRG018: Superchunk - The Freed Seed ep* MRG019: Seam-Granny 9x 7" MRG026: Honor Role-Purgatory 7" MRG029: Butterglory - (self-titled 7")** MRG049: Rocket From The Crypt - (self-titled 7")** MRG035: Rocket from the Crypt-Pigeon Eater 7" MRG046: Butterglory-Our Heads 5 song 7" MRG050: Superchunk-Precision Auto re-mixes 7" (mail order only!!!) MRG053: Archers Of Loaf - The Results After The Loaf's Revenge 7"** MRG062: Labradford-Julias/Columna de la Independencia * - available on Tossing Seeds, MRG020 ** - tracks from this release can be found on the Rows Of Teeth comp., MRG067 >>now if anyone could just tell me about MRG001, 011, 032, and 041, all will be complete! >>plus some side info from biler@PO-Box.McGill.CA: The "Three's Company" 7" with Superchunk, Geek, and Seaweed was numbered MRG000, although it was not released first. It was a co-release between Merge, Leopard-Gecko, and Simple-Machines + Furthermore, there was a bonus 7" included withe the vinyl version of "Foolish". It had the song "Foolish" which was left off the 7", but included on the CD single. This was a one-sided 7" with a lovely drawing on side B. It was numbered MRG060.5. + Also...The MRG004 "My Noise" 7" was put out under the name "Chunk", as that was the band's name before the NYC jazz band of the same name made a fuss.